Championship teams are built on being prepared, playing unselfishly and being held accountable. — Jason Kidd
One thing about championship teams is that they're resilient. No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity. — Nick Saban
Championships and great seasons are won in locker rooms. — Tom Izzo
The team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion. — Mia Hamm
Even championship-winning teams don't play well all the time. — Teddy Sheringham
I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion. — Mia Hamm
Short Championship Team Quotes
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison. — Mahatma Gandhi
Real champions fight through adversity. — Conor McGregor
We're going to be World Champions...forever. — Alex Morgan
Champions do ordinary things better than everyone else. — Chuck Noll
Never underestimate the heart of a champion. — Rudy Tomjanovich
Teams that play together beat those with superior players who play more as individuals. — Jack Ramsay
Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character. — John Wooden
Championship Team Image Quotes
Leadership is earned. You want your team to feel like they work with you, not for you.
Champion Team Quotes
Only true champions come out and show their worth after defeat- and I expect us to do that. — Alex Ferguson
Champions never complain, they are too busy getting better — John Wooden
What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well. — John McEnroe
If your heart is bigger than the big-gest guy on the team, then you're the biggest guy on the team.
I didn’t leave Atletico for money [or] to win the Champions League or to win more trophies. I left to learn a new style of play, new philosophies [at] another team. — Antoine Griezmann
Champions don’t do extraordinary things. They do ordinary things, but they do them without thinking, too fast for the orther team to react. They follow the habits they’ve learned. — Charles Duhigg
How marvelous, it’s a young team who are on the top of the world. Some are champions at the age of 19. — Didier Deschamps
Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.
I was captain in Atletico at 19, playing in the same team as Demetrio Albertini, who won three Champions Leagues, and Sergi Barjuan from Barcelona, who had won everything, and they were 32, 33. I was a kid as captain, so I wasn't the real captain, just a kid learning from them. — Fernando Torres
I have a feeling we are going to be world champions, I can't really explain why. Brazil are probably the best team in the world in terms of individual players. But the team with the most gifted players do not always win. — Oliver Kahn
I'm looking forward to meeting my new team-mates and to be playing for Arsenal in the Premier League and Champions League. I will give my best to Arsenal and want to make all the supporters happy. — Alexis Sanchez
When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion. — Pat Riley
Team Champion Quotes
I have no problem with two teams claiming to be national champions at the end of the year. But that's our society. We're dying to know who the champion is. Heaven forbid we have two. That would be socialist, right? — Kirk Ferentz
Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion. — Earvin Magic Johnson
The rules are changed now, there's not any way to build a team today. It's just how much money you want to spend. You could be the world champions and somebody else makes a key acquisition or two and you're through. — Whitey Herzog
Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion. — Magic Johnson
Every decision he made, I think everybody bought into it. Whether you understood it or not, you bought into it. Because he's a champion. He's won five of these or something like that, so you've got to trust a guy that's been here before and his view for our team. — Stephen Curry
A true champion works hard and never loses sight of her dreams. — Dot Richardson
Not to mention our former tag team champions lost their titles after my good friend Christian was hit in the genitals with a hockey stick by a midgit! I mean enough is enough — Kurt Angle
How on earth Traore gets into this team is beyond me. And he's a Champions League winner? Gimme a break. — Johnny Giles
We were the best team in the world: European champions in 1984, we qualified without a hitch and 86 was to be the swan song for a very experienced side. — Michel Patini
I have always watched the Race of Champions on TV every year and dreamed about participating one day. It's fantastic to be invited; I'm so happy. — Sebastian Vettel
Championship Games Quotes
Anyone who doesn't win their conference has no business playing in the national championship game. — Nick Saban
I'm the head coach at LSU. I will be the head coach at LSU. I have no interest in talking to anybody else. I got a championship game to play, and I'm excited for the opportunity of my damn strong football team to play in it. Please ask me after. I'm busy. Thank you very much. Have a great day! — Les Miles
So, yeah, I'm going to try to win the national championship next year. But I'm not going to kill myself doing it. I'm not going to kill my players either. You really start to realize there's a lot more to what we're trying to do then winning games — Geno Auriemma
In Dortmund, they say the derby is more important than the championship. You can feel it around the game. — Jurgen Klopp
I love the game of basketball, and as long as I can do that, keep playing and try to get some more championships with the organization, I’ll be happy. — Kawhi Leonard
If it weren't for a new rule that came into being, we'd have played three years in a row in the championship game. — Al Davis
Every game's a championship game. When we focus that way, get prepared that way-that this is it, you know, this is the last one, the biggest one-you get ready, you get amped up, you get that laser focus and you're ready to play. — Russell Wilson
I was told I would never make it because I'm too short. Well, I'm still too short, but I've got 10 All-Star games, two World Series championships, and I'm a very happy and contented guy. It doesn't matter what your height is, it's what's in your heart. — Kirby Puckett
The heartbeat of a football team is the quarterback position and I think everyone who has any intelligence about the game understands you must have consistency at that position to be a championship team. — Ron Jaworski
Usually a championship team is built on a strong defense. That is something you can bring to every game. A great attack is always going to be inconsistent - at least on the scoreboard - that's the nature of the game. — Anson Dorrance
Winning Championships Quotes
There are only two types of player-those who keep their nerves under control and win championships, and those who do not. — Harry Vardon
It takes a number of critical factors to win an NBA championship, including the right mix of talent, creativity, intelligence, toughness, and of course, luck. But if a team doesn’t have the most essential ingredient - love - none of those other factors matter. — Phil Jackson
If you do base your life on how many touchdowns you score, how many championships you win, then when you have a setback, then when you have an injury, you're not playing, or something goes wrong, your self-worth goes down. — Tim Tebow
I have short goals - to get better every day, to help my teammates every day - but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It's all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing. — LeBron James
A lot of guys go through their whole careers and don't win a championship, but are still great coaches. — Chuck Daly
If you win a National Championship, or you win two, people think you have not only seen the Holy Grail, but you've embraced it. Basically, I do what a lot of people do, but I've been able to win. — Mike Krzyzewski
To win the Championship in the first year will be hard. We need time to become competitive and win races. — Valentino Rossi
It's all about winning. Stats really don't matter, I mean, guys have great series and all that, and people take notice and take their place in history with those stats and all that stuff. But at the end of the day, it's all about winning and what you can do to help your team get to that point. — Stephen Curry
I want to win a championship and to win the Indy 500 makes me want it so much more. — Scott Dixon
My goal is to win in Milwaukee, bring a championship in the city, and make the team a lot better. So I would never leave for L.A. — Giannis Antetokounmpo
Championship Quotes
Growing up I wasn't the richest, but I had a rich family in spirit. Standing here with 19 championships is something I never thought would happen. I went on a court just with a ball and a racket and with a hope. — Serena Williams
The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships. — Kurtis Blow
It's not about rugby, it's about young men. It's not about building a championship team, it's about building championship boys. Boys who will be forever strong. — Larry Gelwix
The cherished dream of every chessplayer is to play a match with the World Champion. But here is the paradox: the closer you come to the realization of this goal, the less you think about it. — Sayings
The Constructor’s Championship doesn’t really mean anything to me. — Kimi Raikkonen
To me, being the best means proving it in different countries and championships. — Cristiano Ronaldo
We would have two less championships here if it was not for Manu Ginobili. In my eyes, he's the stud of the world. — Gregg Popovich
College coaches measure success in championships. High School coaches measure success to titles. Youth coaches measure success in smiles. — Paul McAllister
I'm pleased that they performed as well as they did while we've been in Miami and that's about as far as it goes. Now, we've got to go home and play as well or better. — Gregg Popovich
My proudest moments are beating Ferrari for the World Championship in 1965, and working with Ford to win Le Mans in 1966 and 1967. — Carroll Shelby
National Championships Quotes
There are 3 basic differences between we British and you Americans. One, we speak English, and you don't. Two, when we have a "World Championship", we invite teams from other nations. Three, when you meet the British head of State, you only have to get down on one knee. — John Cleese
If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year. — Bobby Bowden
It’s easier to win the National Championship than the SEC, ask Nick Saban. — Steve Spurrier
At Alabama, our players don't win Heisman Trophies. Our teams win National Championships. — Bear Bryant
Edwards said the greatest moment of his career was winning the national championship. The lowest moment (of my career) happens every time we lose to Utah. — LaVell Edwards
Once you win a National Championship, how do you do that again? How do you get the passion to do that again? We won it again right away, the next year. A lot of it had to do with the fact that I didn't give myself an opportunity to enjoy the first one. — Mike Krzyzewski
Actually, the Kentucky moment was better than winning the two National Championships, because it was the epitome of what I try to get from a team in a crisis situation. — Mike Krzyzewski
Well, I think any national championship is an extremely important championship to play in. — Greg Norman
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. — Olga Korbut
I was able to do Classics, the U.S. national championships and the Pan American Games and feel like I improved with each meet, but I was still struggling with a lot of residual pain from the two surgeries. — Shawn Johnson
As I and the rest of my Pittsburgh Steelers teammates prepared that week in late December 1974, we knew one thing: The road to the Super Bowl in the AFC went through Oakland. To achieve your dreams as a team, you had to slay the Oakland Raiders. They were the barometer of what it took to be a championship team. — Joe Greene
Beautiful fans of Oklahoma City, I can’t say enough about you guys. All the support you give our team. The home-court advantage we have is the best I’ve ever seen. We disappoint you sometimes, but we try our best every single night to win for you guys. And we want to win a championship for you guys. — Kevin Durant
When you're trying to build or change a culture, what do you do? I always say to take players from state championship teams because they only know one thing -- winning. — John Calipari
It just feels good to say we're the best team in the world, with the best player in the world. — Klay Thompson
Our team, because of our depth and our talent, we were able to do that, and it turned into a special season as a result. — Steve Kerr
Any team that does not win it's conference championship game should not play in the BCS title game — Nick Saban
Before we can talk about a championship, we have to practice like a championship team. — Mike Singletary
If you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships. — Michael Jordan
I don't build championship teams, I build championship boys. — Larry Gelwix
Practice is important. The regular season is important. Your meetings are important. Your walk-through is important. Everything is important. You want to be a championship team, there's a price to pay. And that's what you have to do. There's no shortcuts. You can't shortcut your way to success. — Tom Thibodeau
They're fighting for the championship, that's not a coincidence: I believe they have developed as a team. They've become much stronger, the squad is more balanced. And they still play the way Arsenal always play. They want to have the ball, they like playing it short, and they have outstanding individuals. — Philipp Lahm
Do you want to choose winning over standing out? It's a choice every player on every championship team has to do — Doc Rivers
I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson. — Oscar Robertson
Im winning races, Im still challenging for the world championships, the team is fantastic and I have a great relationship with everybody here - so why would I want to even consider changing? — Kimi Raikkonen
In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it - to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares! — Zac Efron
I'm 31 years old and I want to be part of a championship team before my career is over. — Mats Sundin
I'm competitive. I'd love another chance to be part of a Stanley Cup championship team. That'd be awesome. — Ed Belfour
Winning teams at the NBA level, the college level, and the high school level all play team basketball. Championship teams have five players on the same page at all times. — Hubie Brown
If you have talent with teamwork, you've got a chance to be a championship team. — Mike Krzyzewski
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. — Michael Strahan
All 14 guys on the team have sacrificed something to get to this point. — Stephen Curry
The only team that believed in me was the Saints, and I feel like I owe them a great debt of gratitude. I want to give them what they saw in me-a guy who could lead this team to a championship. — Drew Brees
There are moments where we forgot what got us to where we are now. ... We stopped moving the ball. We know how it works. We are playing a great team with great players, and we've got to be close to perfect to win. — Manu Ginobili
Everybody was ready to put Denver and Indianapolis in the championship game. We're the same team that went 15-1 last year and made it to the championship game. We're coming from a different perspective now, being on the road playing two tough road games. We all believed in one another, even if no one else did. — Hines Ward
In all the research you do as a coach, studying other coaches and championship-type situations, you find that all those teams combined talent with great defense. You've got to stop other teams to win. — Pat Riley
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