Championship Quotes

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

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.

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

I think this can be a championship team.

But we do have to take it one game at a time. You can't look at the end of the road before you get the next foot in.

You're measured by championships no matter what.

After the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty, after the headlines have been written and after you are back in the quiet of your room and the championship ring has been placed on the dresser and all the pomp and fanfare has faded, the enduring things that are left are: the dedication to excellence, the dedication to victory, and the dedication to doing with our lives the very best we can to make the world a better place in which to live.

The road to your championship will not be a smooth, wide and easily traveled freeway. No, great accomplishments are never realized without first having to endure steep climbs, hard falls and sharp turns. The key to your success is perseverance and focus. Keep your focus on that which you desire to accomplish, your championship, and continually discover ways to, and ways not to, achieve your goals. Fall down and/or get knocked down 10 times and get back up 11..., and in so doing learn, grow and move closer to your championship.

Is not that a great principle for all of living? The people who will really accomplish great things in life are those who are willing to discipline their lives, who maintain their health, their vitality, their efficiency through this process of rigorous disciplining of what they take into their bodies and what they do in life. It's a very important thing in terms of championship living.

To me, we must learn to spell the word RESPECT.

We must respect the rights and properties of our fellowman. And then learn to play the game of life, as well as the game of athletics, according to the rules of society. If you can take that and put it into practice in the community in which you live, then, to me you have won the greatest championship.

To be a part of a championship team, I'm excited.

.. This is the closest I've ever been to a championship. I'm looking forward to the challenge of helping this team repeat.

Well, I mean, to me, I think my ultimate - my ultimate goal is winning championships and - and I understand that me going down as one of the greats will not happen until I, you know, win a championship.

The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.

My time in the World Rally Championship has been a useful stage in my career, but I can't deny the fact that my hunger for F1 has recently become overwhelming.

I'll be too old to face a difficult championship as the one in America will surely be.

Before we can talk about a championship, we have to practice like a championship team.

We're trying to be that franchise that year-in and year-out is competing for a championship.

You can take a sidewards step in the Premier League, go to a team in the Championship or come to a team in League One.

People confuse being world No. 1 with winning a Major championship.

To me, being the best means proving it in different countries and championships.

It's torturous what my siblings put me through.

I can take any Olympic final, I can fight in a world championship and fall behind and win in sudden death, but when it comes to my siblings, it's out of my control. There's not much I can do.

From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee, my intense training with my dad was always to credit.

When I was 12, I had a coach tell me I would never be a championship pitcher.

That devastated me. I was crushed.

In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race.

To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is high. I know I am always going to be a few points behind the top guys.

Athens is a great place for me. It is my second home. It's where I won my first world championship medal, it's where I set my world record.

Coming back in that AFC Championship Game against the Steelers, that was a poignant moment for me for a lot of reasons - the magnitude of the game and having not been able to play for quite a while and to be able to get on the field for that game. That one stands out.

Getting hurt and watching Tom Brady take over and beginning what's been just a spectacular run of his, and to come back and play in the AFC Championship Game against the Steelers in Pittsburgh, and help us win that game, is a memory that stands out very clearly.

A team championship doesn't happen because three people score 10s, it happens because all the guys score well. In my opinion, everyone deserved 10s, we're all 10s on this team.

When we won the league championship, all the married guys on the club had to thank their wives for putting up with all the stress and strain all season. I had to thank all the single broads in New York.

When your are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that.

Who ever wins today will win the championship no matter who wins.

That feeling is the same whether you're on either side of the hundredths.

Obviously, it's great to win the world championship, but if you put down that kind of skiing, it's awesome either way.

You can be the best person in the league but if you don't win championships, something's missing.

We just want to win. That's the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content with one championship or a little bit of success, but we don't really reflect on what we've done in the past. We focus on the present.

Realistically, we could aim for the top three in the constructors championship.

Realistically, we could look at winning more races. Three race wins would be very satisfying.

The first time I managed to pick up a basketball I knew I was destined to lead the UK to another National championship. ... Even now, so many years later, I still believe Kentucky will go undefeated in March & win everything.

My goals are for the U.S. team to get to the second round of the World Cup and to win a championship here in the U.S. with my club team the Columbus Crew.

A half marathon is a good way to have a bit of fun and race against those girls and learn a bit more about them.The world half marathon is a world championship at the end of the day and it's important. I've win it twice and it's a quality event.

I've been in the league 12 years. To sit on the bench and complain about the way things were, that doesn't get anything done. I don't know. I'm playing for a championship and trying to make the playoffs. My effort has never changed.

I'm 31 years old and I want to be part of a championship team before my career is over.

So I'm going to tell you, it's going to be a good year.

There are good players all over this country, and it is our job as a scouting department to find them, draft them, sign them, develop them, and help us to continue to win championships. So it's going to be a good year.

You don't even have to win a championship every year to draw the fans.

You just have to show you're really trying.

I fancy our chances at the European Championships.

We felt like when we went into last year we had a pretty good chance to win the championship from the previous year with the fall we put together. We've got the same everything now, so I think we can come back and be as strong this year.

But I'm good to go through my contract with Childress, and my determination is to win races and try to win that other championship.

There are far more important things in life than making a putt or missing a putt or winning a championship or losing a championship.

I won the city scoring championship as a senior.

The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all.