Best 72 quotes in «championship quotes» category

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.

The thing I probably love the most is driving out with the championship trophy under my arm.

They've been a thorn in our side, but we're playing for more than just revenge. We're coming out and playing for the Big Ten tournament championship. If we beat them, that'll be great.

This is a tournament. The others are all championships.

This was an unbelievable experience.

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.

This season is my most special and most cherished. All my focus is on getting that championship back here.

We aren't comfortable. We are not satisfied. We have to stay even-keeled.

When you start training camp, you're building the tools necessary to win a championship. You have to have the patience.

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.

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

When Paul Brown talked contract, the championship game was part of it. We took the championship game for granted.

You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.

We didn't do much different against LeBron. We were just more active and more competitive.

Well, I think any national championship is an extremely important championship to play in.

What does perfection look like to me? Championship rings

Winning a championship is now a legitimate and realistic goal.

Anyone who doesn't win their conference has no business playing in the national championship game.

Opportunity doesn't make appointments, you have to be ready when it arrives.

All 14 guys on the team have sacrificed something to get to this point.

Championships and great seasons are won in locker rooms.

As you get older, every chance to win a championship is more crucial, because you are going to have less and less of them.

Championship teams are built on being prepared, playing unselfishly and being held accountable.

David Nugent tore up the Championship but he’s gone to Portsmouth and he’s a fish up a tree

Come and see my coaching certificates - they're called the European Cup and league championships.

Definitely the road to the championship gets much easier when those type of guys are eliminated early.

Defense wins championships. A good offense is beat by a good defense, always.

Entitlement never wins Championships, Investment wins Championships.

Every championship, by definition, is historic.

Even if the pace is slow in championships, you can still sprint well and still power in the last 200, which is always the main part when the race is slow.

Everything about my life is about winning a national championship

I always get up for every game, but this game is especially big. It's a do-or-die thing. This could be (decide) whoever wins the regular-season championship.

I began playing in the Pacific Coast Indoor Tennis Championships.

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.

I came so far- from nothing to a Super Bowl championship

I can't be No. 1 with an MVP trophy. I could be No. 1 with the championship ring and the championship trophy on my fireplace.

I don't have anything good to say. World Golf Championships, I mean that suggests they're going to be played everywhere, and they tend to not be played in very many places.

I'd like to win a championship for the Steelers and for myself to shove down Detroits throat.

I dont believe it wins championships. (It) gets you to the playoffs.

I don't build championship teams, I build championship boys.

I feel like winning a world championship was a hurdle I had to get over.

I'm competitive. I'd love another chance to be part of a Stanley Cup championship team. That'd be awesome.

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.

I got to experience a world championship with some great teammates.

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

I'm a guy who is just trying to be successful in whatever I do, and I give everything to my teammates, give everything to the coaching staff. When you fall short, it hurts and it eats at you, and it hurts me to know that I wish I could have done better and done more and just put a little bit more effort or whatever the case may be to help us get over the hump. But it just wasn't our time.

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.

I’m here to win a championship. I’m not here to goof around

I'm not promising a championship. I know how hard that is to deliver. We're not ready right now.

I put the number 7 on my t-shirt because this is the number of my championships but also because it was the number of Barry Sheene, who was a great hero of mine and a truly great racer.