I'd rather be in a good position in the playoffs and holding up a World Series trophy than holding up an MVP trophy.
When you first win a trophy, you want to do it again and again. It keeps you hungry.
A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.
There's a lot of fun things about this sport, but trying to hoist that trophy at the end is what we all play for.
Perhaps I should just motivate myself by buying trophy cabinets - so I have to fill them.
It doesn't matter that I didn't win a trophy because I did it my way and I lived the dream.
I got the Clarence Durbin Award, the Equity Award - which is cool because it has a cash prize which is cooler than a trophy, especially when you're a struggling actor, and you can't pay rent.
It wasn't until 1999 when my idols Mia Hamm and Kristine Lilly took home the women's World Cup trophy at the Rose Bowl in front of 40 million TV viewers that I remember thinking how rare it was to see women play sports on TV.
At the combine and at my workouts, I tried to be the perfect player. I tried to promote my strengths and conceal my weaknesses, and on paper, I kind of succeeded: I was the first pick in the draft. And with that, I inherited this big shiny trophy that I carried around, and it had one word engraved on it - anxiety.
The idea that talent is directly proportional to your trophy cabinet is one I oppose.
