The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all. — Bob Cousy
Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that. — Ayrton Senna
Coaches win practices, players win games — Pete Carril
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
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
In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best. — Althea Gibson
I hope to continue my work, winning championships with my club. The acknowledgement comes naturally for those who deserve it. — Neymar
Short Winning Championships Quotes
Winning is about having the whole team on the same page. — Bill Walton
Winning as a team is better than anything. It's great to share success. — Jim Harbaugh
Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. — Vince Lombardi
A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning. — Pat Riley
Even championship-winning teams don't play well all the time. — Teddy Sheringham
Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself. — Paul Bryant
The team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion. — Mia Hamm
Winning the title in England is the biggest challenge of them all. — Jurgen Klopp
Winning one league title at Roma to me is worth winning 10 at Juventus or Real Madrid. — Francesco Totti
Champions do ordinary things better than everyone else. — Chuck Noll
Winning Championships Image Quotes
When someone disrespects you, beware the impulse to win their respect. For disrespect is not a valuation of your worth but a signal of their character.
Champion Winning Quotes
Too many people want the appearance of winning rather than the practices and hard work that create a true champion. — T. D. Jakes
The culture precedes positive results. It doesn't get tacked on as an afterthought on your way to the victory stand. Champions behave like champions before they're champions: they have a winning standard of performance before they are winners. — Bill Walsh
Every time you find some humor in a difficult situation, you win.
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. — Wilma Rudolph
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday. — Wilma Rudolph
True champions aren't always the ones that win, but those with the most guts. — Mia Hamm
There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, lies, inferiority and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy and truth. The wolf that wins? The one you feed.
To win takes a complete commitment of mind and body. When you can't make that commitment, they don't call you a champion anymore. — Rocky Marciano
The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There's five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster. — Jurgen Klopp
The mindset of a champion is that I put myself in a certain situation to win, I don't play to lose, I dont prepare to lose, I hate second place and I definitely don't like silver. — Phil Heath
There is no doubt that man is a competitive animal and there is no place where this fact is more obvious than in the ring. There is no second place. Either you win or you lose. When they call you a champion, it's because you don't lose. To win takes a complete commitment of mind and body. — Rocky Marciano
Championship Team Quotes
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
I've got a Championship game to play and I'm excited about the opportunity of my damn strong football team to play in it. — Les Miles
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
Every time you are able to find some humor in a difficult situation, you win.
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
Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice. — Bobby Knight
Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
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
College coaches measure success in championships. High School coaches measure success to titles. Youth coaches measure success in smiles. — Paul McAllister
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
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
Winning Sports Quotes
You have to believe in yourself when no one else does. — Serena Williams
If we dare to win, we should also dare to lose — Lee Chong Wei
Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won. — Bill Bowerman
The difference between winning and losing is most often not qiuting.
Passion is a huge prerequisite to winning. It makes you willing to jump through hoops, go through all the ups and downs and everything in between to reach your goal. — Kerri Walsh
This is the greatest thing about sports - you play to win the game. Hello? You don't play to just play it. When you start telling me it doesn't matter, then retire, get out, because it matters. — Herman Edwards
I look into eyes, shake their hand, pat their back, and wish them luck, but I am thinking, I am going to bury you. — Seve Ballesteros
To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children... to leave the world a better place... to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
Revolution is a spectators sport. The majority will sit in the stands and watch the factions fight. At the end they will choose side with the team that is winning. — George Lincoln Rockwell
There are only two types of player-those who keep their nerves under control and win championships, and those who do not. — Harry Vardon
If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out. — Chuck Noll
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can. — Paul Tournier
National Championships Quotes
Anyone who doesn't win their conference has no business playing in the national championship game. — Nick Saban
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
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
It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.
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
Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion. — Magic Johnson
Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.
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
Being A Winner Quotes
It's best being a striker. If you miss five then score the winner, you're a hero. The goalkeeper can play a blinder, then let one in… and he's a villain. — Ian Rush
Winning is contagious, you know its a thought. It's not something that just happens on Sundays. You know that's something, like you have to live like a winner. You have to think like a winner. You have to eat like a winner. Everything that you do with life, you gotta be a winner. — Cam Newton
Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.
If you ask me how I want to be remembered, it is as a winner. You know what a winner is? A winner is somebody who has given his best effort, who has tried the hardest they possibly can, who has utilized every ounce of energy and strength within them to accomplish something. — Walter Payton
Twenty seconds before a race, there's absolute focus. The key thing is to achieve relaxation, but at the same to have absolute total control. You've got to find the balance between being totally ready to go and being really at peace with yourself as well. — Cathy Freeman
You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be. — Lou Holtz
Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.
Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble. — John Madden
There’s no off-season when you’re serious about being a winner. — Tim Grover
Psychopaths view any social exchange as a ‘feeding opportunity,’ a contest or a test of wills in which there can be only one winner. Their motives are to manipulate and take, ruthlessly and without remorse. — Robert D. Hare
I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an actor and not a beauty pageant winner. — Jude Law
Winning Is Everything Quotes
This is a business and everything happens for a reason. I'm going to just to play hard, try to play hard and do whatever it takes to win. — James Harden
In every disagreement in your marriage, remember that there is not a winner and a loser. You are partners in everything, so you will either win together or lose together. Always work together to find a solution. — Dave Willis
When the game is over I just want to look at myself in the mirror, win or lose, and know I gave it everything I had. — Joe Montana
Attitude determines how well you do it. — Lou Holtz
Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog. — Damon Hill
When you get a trophy, why go jumping and crying? Winning‘s a great feeling, but everything else is an anti-climax. — Stephen Hendry
Once you are in it you are in it, you have to go all the way to the end because you commit yourself to such a level where there is no compromise. You give everything you have absolutely everything. Sometimes you find even more because you require more if you want to stay ahead and you want to win. — Ayrton Senna
Confidence is everything. From there, it's a small step to winning. — Craig Stadler
When you’ve done everything you can to train yourself for competition, you’ll sleep well when the tournament is over, win or lose. — Karch Kiraly
I love winning more than I love playing badminton. Winning is everything. — Saina Nehwal
Championship Games Quotes
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
Any team that does not win it's conference championship game should not play in the BCS title game — Nick Saban
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 know I probably never will win the league MVP or passing title. That is not why I play the game. I try to win football games and championships. — Ben Roethlisberger
Nba Championships Quotes
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
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
It's different as a coach because you feel responsible for a lot of people. Even though you don't take a shot, you don't get a rebound, you feel like you just want people to succeed and you want to help them any way you can. — Steve Kerr
I felt like we would have definitely won an NBA championship if everyone was healthy. — Kyrie Irving
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
We didn't do much different against LeBron. We were just more active and more competitive. — Steve Kerr
I'm a guy who tries to be successful in all that I do, and when you fall short, it hurts. — LeBron James
Winning an NBA championship is the biggest thing that can happen professionally because it's the top. But representing your country-with more than 30 million people cheering for you and then seeing you up there on the podium-it's hard to find any more words to put on that. — Manu Ginobili
Do you want to choose winning over standing out? It's a choice every player on every championship team has to do — Doc Rivers
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
A lot of guys go through their whole careers and don't win a championship, but are still great coaches. — Chuck Daly
To win the Championship in the first year will be hard. We need time to become competitive and win races. — Valentino Rossi
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
I honestly didn't even know who the coach was when I was coming to New York. I just wanted to win a championship; I didn't even know who was coaching. I didn't care. It could have been Aunt Jemima. They could have had the syrup coaching. I was coming here regardless. I just wanted to win a championship here. — Metta World Peace
I want to win a championship and to win the Indy 500 makes me want it so much more. — Scott Dixon
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
Ever since I was a kid, I’d imagine that I was making a break to win the world championship. — Stephen Hendry
I've been semi-successful. I've done all right but I'm not the player I was. Who do I think will win the world championship? John Higgins. Have I been good for snooker? I don't know. — Ronnie O'Sullivan
Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character. — Alan Armstrong
We don’t have to be superstars or win championships…. All we have to do is learn to rise to every occasion, give our best effort, and make those around us better as we do it. — John Wooden
Entitlement never wins Championships, Investment wins Championships. — Jay Bilas
Tomboy. Alright, call me a tomboy. Tomboys get medals. Tomboys win championships. Tomboys can fly. Oh. And tomboys aren't boys. — Julie Foudy
Real talent doesn't always win championships, like real music doesn't always win Grammys. — Drake
Winning the world championship in '66 was really the pinnacle of the whole thing, because to win a championship with an Australian made engine was a fantastic feather in our cap. — Jack Brabham
You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws. — Don Meyer
Michael [Schumacher] was a phenomenal driver but for me, Ayrton Senna was the greatest ever. If I could get one world championship that would be great; if I could win three, the same number as Ayrton did, that would be a dream. But I want to be the best driver there has ever been. — Lewis Hamilton
I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, I can expect half-hearted results. Most people get it the honest way by setting their goals and committing themselves to achieving their goals. That's the only way I did it anyway. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. — Michael Jordan
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
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. — LeBron James
I wanna be remembered for my hard work that I've done for over 25 years. Winning championships, making money, being a star, all the luxurious things...they don't count. What counts is being able to open up a path for the new generation to come in and continue to innovate and evolve. I'm just very happy to be a pioneer. — Oscar Gutierrez
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
Yeah, I know there's been all this talk this year especially about the 3-point shot and can you win shooting it. There's a lot of different styles that can work. You have to base it on your own personnel. — Steve Kerr
I love the game - and I hate the Russians because they've almost ruined it. They only risk the title when they have to, every three years. They play for draws with each other but play to win against the Western masters. Draws make for dull chess, wins make for fighting chess. — Sayings
I dream about winning a championship, where everybody is hooting and hollering for you. The whole world is drawn to the NBA Finals. — Ray Allen
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