I need to be at my peak and my best is holding up the trophy. Anything less I wouldn't be really excited about. So that's all I can focus on.
Steadfastness, that is holding on; patience, that is holding back; expectancy, that is holding the face up; obedience, that is holding one's self in readiness to go or do; listening, that is holding quiet and still so as to hear.
Standing on the court and holding up that trophy - it's so great you want to keep doing it over and over again.
It's always a dream to sign a big contract, but the main dream is winning a championship and holding that trophy up with your teammates.
I can't be No. 1 with an MVP trophy. I could be No. 1 with the championship ring and the championship trophy on my fireplace.
Up or out" greatly magnified the careerist emphasis on holding a position rather than doing a job.
I had no desire to be an upward-mobile-rising yuppie with a trophy wife, a trophy house, a trophy car. I wasn't looking for any of those things. I already had what I wanted.
That feeling is so intoxicating, walking off the court holding the Larry O'Brien trophy. So I just want to do that again.
For sure, I don't do the right work but I feel holding a trophy or doing well doesn't satisfy me any more.
I don't go there thinking I'm going to lose. I never go into a tournament thinking that. I'll do the best that I can. I need to be at my peak and my best is holding up the trophy. Anything less I wouldn't be really excited about. So that's all I can focus on.
Anyone would love to have the medal and a major trophy on their CV. When you reach Wembley, you think of the amount of hours you have put in training throughout your life, all the games you have played up to that point, and if you win a trophy, it is there forever as a reward.
Being a winner is more than getting a first place trophy, it is acting like the effort was an honour and the trophy is just a decoration.
My dad brought me up not to accept second place. I lost a karate tournament once and got a trophy for fourth place. My dad tossed that trophy out the window on the way home.
I'm not holding fast to my position, but to respect the will of the people that decided to choose Saddam Hussein as the leader of the revolution. Therefore, when I say president of the Republic of Iraq, it's not a formality or a holding fast to a position, but rather to reiterate to the Iraqi people that I respect its will.
A World Series trophy is a wonderful thing to behold.
I never looked at my mantel and envisioned an MVP trophy sitting there. This is pretty crazy.