(712 quotes found)
“To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.”
George W. Bush
“I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.”
Jack Benny
“Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.”
Ernie Banks
“Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.”
Jesse Owens
“This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.”
Alfred Hitchcock
“I never knew I'd be in a musical, let alone win an award for one.”
Nicole Kidman
“The Academy Awards ceremony is designed to be without irony, but Chris Rock supplied it anyway with filmed movie-theater interviews with black men and women who had never heard of the movies nominated for Best Picture.”
Suzanne Fields
“The true magnitude of the Nobel Committee's blunder in awarding the Prize to Kissinger didn't become apparent until the destabilization of Cambodia, set in motion by American intervention, produced the Khmer Rouge and the slaughter of over a million”
Paul Hager
“Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.”
Barbra Streisand
“DiMaggio was the greatest all-around player I ever saw. His career cannot be summed up in numbers and awards. It might sound corny, but he had a profound and lasting impact on the country.”
Ted Williams
