There is nothing more prestigious for a player to wear the white of Real Madrid.
In a 1986 interview with The Times, he recounted how he was drafted for "Top Gun," even though "Hunger" had failed and even though he knew nothing about the prestigious Fighter Weapons School, where the top American pilots are trained.
To go on to win such a prestigious award is nothing short of miraculous.
As a kid, Karp was interested in technology, but until the end of the summer after his freshman year at Bronx Science, one of the city's more prestigious public schools, nothing really distinguished his experience.
"Young artists unknown to the public or with no prestigious position had nothing else to do than to repeat non-expressive expressions with no distinctive image using minimal materials," Lee Ufan said.
Mumford, 26, said he felt the band had done "nothing special" to earn the prestigious Glastonbury slot, and put their success down to the audience.
Ambitious chefs routinely make pilgrimages to prestigious kitchens, working for nothing for a couple of months.
It has nothing to do with the equally prestigious Lafite, which is from the Bordeaux region, and neither brand is produced anywhere near Montpellier.
Everyday, you have nothing else to do but enjoying your prestigious social status, and pointing at us from an ethical high ground.
Depression, alcoholism, asthma, writer's block: nothing seemed to alleviate her problems, not a prestigious job as poetry consultant at the Library of Congress (arranged by Lowell), not lengthy stays at the writers' colony Yaddo.
