Championship Quotes
Sugar Ray Robinson was at the top of the boxing world during the 1950's when it seemed that he would either win or lose the championship about every three or four months.
That's the only reason I'm here. I don't need to play the game for any other reason than to win a championship.
When you're are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. Its more important than that.
Well, I think any national championship is an extremely important championship to play in.
As you get older, every chance to win a championship is more crucial, because you are going to have less and less of them.
Michael Schumacher deserved the driver's championship. To be honest, I didn't want to keep my record as the last Ferrari world champion; it's never done me any good!
In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.
I can see Sue and I leading this team to many more championships...We're going to take this and learn from it. We worked too hard for this.
Some people asked me if it was going to be a downer to come back and play on a college team after playing on a world championship team, and I don't think they understand what it is like to play here.
This season is my most special and most cherished. All my focus is on getting that championship back here.
The team which I led to the 1992 European Championship Finals is the only one in the history of the entire competition to have won every single one of its qualifying matches.
You start developing a championship attitude by, first of all, telling kids that they are really good and that they have the potential to become better.
I won player of the year and players' player, two cups and two championship medals, had a great time.
I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.
I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition.
Actually, Magic and the Lakers beat Philadelphia for Magic's first NBA Championship.
You don't even have to win a championship every year to draw the fans. You just have to show you're really trying.
The world championship is a disputed title. You've got a situation like boxing. Speaking as a member of the chess world, it's extremely undignified.
The thing I probably love the most is driving out with the championship trophy under my arm.
People always say it's a shame someone as talented as Ryan Giggs or George Best before him never played in a World Cup or European Championship and I don't want my name to be added to that list.
I do not think I could go on living unless I felt that one day I might win the Open Championship at St. Andrews.
The Russians have held my title for ten years and they're going to be in for it when I win the Championship. They're going to have to wait and play under my conditions.
To go out there and play and have fun and hopefully win a championship. That's my goal.
Definitely the road to the championship gets much easier when those type of guys are eliminated early.
Parents would rather have their son get all-state than his team win the state championship.
I want to win a championship. I can't come on this team and demand to be a starter.
When I entered the sport of boxing I wanted to be one of the best and be undefeated. And I was able to attain that, not just one championship title, but four.
In those years, it was easier to win the Soviet Championship than a game against 'Iron Tigran'.
I smoked my first cigar in 1991, when we won the championship. Up to that point, I had never smoked a cigar, never smoked anything.
Of course, success is a relative term. It can be something completely different from winning the German championship eight times or making millions.
There's a lot of history in Boston and a lot of history, obviously, in New York with all the championships.
How about that amigo? I just come over to see my friends and I win ze bloody championship.
The joy I get from winning a major championship doesn't even compare to the feeling I get when a kid writes a letter saying: 'Thank you so much. You have changed my life.'
If I would have listened to other people back in 2000 telling me I should have stopped playing basketball because of a kidney disease, I wouldn't have won a world championship.
Every fight is do or die for me. I've come too far to start over. I'm on a destiny trip right now. I'm racing towards that heavyweight world championship.
Some of us are fortunate enough to play championship golf, but this isn't essential in the enjoyment of the game.
Never rank, rate, or compare coaches, children, concerts, or championships or congratulations. Just enjoy them all.
When I won the World Championship in '72, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.
During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.
Winning the Championship is like taking a 26-year ball and chain from around our legs. Now we can go forward, and hopefully dominate English football for the next 10 years, like Liverpool did.
