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.
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I think very often the price paid for a work is the trophy itself.
What is the point of competing for a trophy if everyone gets a trophy?
Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
It is not about money. It is about how you treat the player.
Organizations are trying to save extra money. Players are trying to get extra money. That's the way it is.
Some of the money from the senior players goes to helping out the younger kids. It is from the players' pool, the fines for being late and so on. Some will go to something like the tsunami appeal and some to helping out young players.
If you offer athletes stipends, then you're into pay-for-play, and that's the ballgame. People should realize that, and they should realize that amateurism never has been a sustainable model for a sports-entertainment industry. It wasn't in tennis. It wasn't in the Olympics. And it's not in big-time college sports.
I hate to speak about individuals. Players don't win you trophies, teams win trophies, squads win trophies.
I think that players play, and they compete, and it's not about incentives.
Music is not a contest, it's not a competition, so giving out trophies seems a little bit like the sporting world I left behind when I was a kid.