#trophies

Everyone has a 'risk muscle.' You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don't, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day. ↗

— Roger von Oech

#day #everyone #keep #least #make

All I know is that I've wasted all these years looking for something, a sort of trophy I'd get only if I really, really did enough to deserve it. But I don't want it anymore, I want something else now, something warm and sheltering, something I can turn to, regardless of what I do, regardless of who I become. Something that will just be there, always, like tomorrow's sky. That's what I want now, and I think it's what you should want too. But it will be too late soon. We'll become too set to change. If we don't take our chance now, another may never come for either of us. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#chances #change #constancy #contentment #giving-up

What's going to make me happy is going on the court and holding up trophies, singles and doubles. ↗

— Serena Williams

#doubles #going #happy #holding #make

If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#decays #declines #literature #nation

My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons. ↗

— John Irving

#match #old #reasons #say #trophies

The only way I'd have gone was if it would better my career, I would not have gone just for the money. The point was to go to a club that could win trophies. ↗

— Teddy Sheringham

#career #club #could #go #gone

The culmination of three trophies was the pinnacle of my career and it has been rewarded with a knighthood. ↗

— Alex Ferguson

#career #culmination #knighthood #pinnacle #rewarded

To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks. ↗

— Irving R. Kaufman

#atrophies #available #becomes #cases #daily