A Quote by Glenn Beck

Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.

Glenn Beck

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Glenn Beck
American - Journalist
Born: February 10, 1964

We are raising a generation of kids where everyone gets a trophy. But in real life, everyone don't get a trophy.

Killer Mike

What is the point of competing for a trophy if everyone gets a trophy?

Glenn Beck

If everyone is special, then no one is. If everyone gets a trophy, trophies become meaningless.

David McCullough

There's no medals for trying. This isn't like eighth grade where everybody gets a trophy. We are in a professional sport, and it is competitive to win. That's what we do.

Bill Belichick

Once everyone gets a taste of one trophy, it could set off an effect. People will get the hunger, and just want more and more.

Shaun Wright-Phillips

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.

Burt Shavitz

The Democrats say we ought to give Barack Obama credit for trying. That sounds like the nonsense of giving every kid a trophy for showing up. Friends, we're talking about leading the country, not playing on a third-grade soccer team! I realize this is the man who got a Nobel Peace Prize for what he would potentially do, but in the real world, you get the prize for producing something, not just promising it.

Mike Huckabee

It would be beautiful to photograph the winners of everything from Nobel to booby prize, clutching trophy, or money or certificate, solemn or smiling or tear stained or bloody, on the precarious pinnacle of the human landscape.

Diane Arbus

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.

Bryan Mosley

I'm hearing in youth sports where you're not allowed to post scores of games online; everybody's gotta get a trophy. I mean, that's ridiculous. If you're a winner, you're a winner and you get a trophy. If you got second place, you don't get anything.

Carli Lloyd

For Manchest United, every cup is very important. A trophy is a trophy.

Henrikh Mkhitaryan

We are in the trophy generation.Give them a trophy for 23rd place.That makes the parents happy

Tom Izzo

Our country craves for the trophy of the African Cup of Nations. I am craving for such a trophy in my career.

Gervinho

To be a trophy wife, you have to be a trophy. I am more of a commemorative plaque.

Ali Wong

It took me five years to get my first trophy with Ajax but it feels like you have to win a trophy to win more and then they follow. It's just the belief you can win it.