Gary Hooper rated his two goals against Hibernian as the pinnacle of his career so far after they helped Celtic win the double.
The 25-year-old twice finished clinically in the first half at Hampden Park to set Celtic on the way to a 3-0 William Hill Scottish Cup final win.
The impressive victory rounded off a memorable season for the Clydesdale Bank Premier League champions, whose exploits in reaching the last 16 of the Champions League proved the highlight.
And Hooper added a further personal achievement as his goals took him through the 30 mark for the season.
"It was a great win in the end and we're delighted with the double," the Englishman told Celtic's official website.
"This, getting to the last 16, winning the league, and scoring 31 goals, I'm at the top of my career.
"At the start of the season my aim was to beat last year's goals total and I did that two games ago. I was unlucky not to get to 20 in the league but I wanted to get past 30 overall and I managed that.
"This feels even better than the first time we won the Scottish Cup two years ago because we did this one in style.
"We've also got the league win and the Champions League run behind us as well so this has been my best season at the club.
"Playing like that, like we did at Hampden, really topped it off."
Hooper has struck up an excellent understanding with Anthony Stokes during his time at Celtic Park and the Irishman set up both of his goals in the final.
Stokes also had a hand in the third as he released Mikael Lustig to cross for Joe Ledley to power home, although not before Hooper missed a great chance for his hat-trick.
"It was great to have him playing next to me," Hooper said.
"He's a great striker and he works his socks off. He showed again how good he is at setting up goals but he was looking for one himself towards the end.
"He put the two crosses in for me and I'm glad he got the man-of-the-match award because he worked his socks off.
"My goals came from two great balls from him, one right foot and one left foot. I had a chance for a third but I completely missed it.
"Joe Ledley was there, though, and he scored. I hurt myself somehow when I missed the ball but Joe closed his eyes and thumped it. I'm joking, of course. It was a good shot."
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereComments are closed on this article