It's a consoling notion that death is a very tiny hole, and you need to make yourself very small to get through it. One obviously needs to lighten off, and a rucksack full of bricks or a mantelpiece full of trophies will certainly have to be abandoned - the sooner the better, I say.

When there's so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you've already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything.

Award trophies, as opposed to letting the players define and claim their own. Ultimately, pay them to play so that their activity not only resembles work but is work.

It is a pity that my collection of trophies contains not a single Russian.

My challenge is to win titles and trophies with Real Madrid.

I've been promoted, relegated, won big trophies, gone months without scoring, played for my country at World Cups, been bought, sold, loaned, and called 'a freak.'

I was always watching Dad lift trophies. That made me want to do what he does.

You have to pick up things from the big teams, who are always in finals and winning big trophies.

So many of today's programs are about trophies and jackets, and we think that's a big mistake.

I've done quite a bit in England. I've won the majority of trophies and awards that there is to win, apart from top goalscorer... which is hard as a defender.

When you play for Chelsea you always want to win trophies.

I believe that having a family in the dressing room is very important when it comes to winning trophies.

I look at my trophies and can't believe they're mine.

When I need to push myself, I think of all those nicely polished trophies waiting to be lifted up by the winner - and how that winner might be me.

I think winning brings togetherness and, when you have beautiful experiences together and you win trophies, then those experiences stay within that group.

A club like Madrid and its fans and the people who work for the club deserve to have trophies every year.

In football, there are good and bad times, but if you are a great side, you can be confident of winning trophies again.

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

The ability to act as a role model shouldn't depend on owning a pile of trophies. Instead, we should look at role models as whole people - people who fail but overcome adversity, people who inspire us both on and off the course, people who spend their time trying to make their community a better place.