Basketball Championship Sayings

#1. One day to see that headline, not that someone won a basketball championship, but to see that a cure for cancer has been found, will be a great day for mankind.

Dick Vitale

#2. 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

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

Jason Kidd

#4. Do you want to choose winning over standing out? It's a choice every player on every championship team has to do

Doc Rivers

#5. Parents would rather have their son get all-state than his team win the state championship.

Don Meyer

#6. For us to be the team that got him that historic 10th championship is special for us.

Kobe Bryant

#7. I play basketball to win a championship. That championship is everything to me. And that's what gets people to buy in to your brand - being a winner.

Chris Paul

#8. When you're going with a huge dramatic disaster film, try to keep the narrative as simple as possible.

Jeremy Bolt

#9. Everything is eternal Nothingness does not exist No thing has ever become nothing And nothing has never become something What is has always been and will always be

John Frusciante

#10. You're where I want to be.

Simone Elkeles

#11. Basketball can serve as a kind of metaphor for ultimate cooperation. It is a sport where success, as symbolized by the championship, requires that the dictates of community prevail over selfish impulses.

Bill Bradley

#12. The ideal way to win a championship is step by step.

Phil Jackson

#13. Slow eyes and parted lips gave her the appearance of a woman who did not know where she was or where she was going.

James Joyce

#14. If you have talent with teamwork, you've got a chance to be a championship team.

Mike Krzyzewski

#15. I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.

Edvard Munch

#16. Actually, Magic and the Lakers beat Philadelphia for Magic's first NBA Championship.

Oscar Robertson

#17. I don't just try to score. The challenge is elevating my teammates to be able to win a championship.

Kobe Bryant

#18. To go out there and play and have fun and hopefully win a championship. That's my goal.

Carmelo Anthony

#19. I hate roses. Don't you? It's all right if you can hide them in a cutting garden, but I think a rose garden is the height of ick.

Cy Twombly

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

Don Meyer

#21. How is one to decide where the limitations start and end, unless they try to break past them?

Amber Schunk Clubb

#22. 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.

Alonzo Mourning

#23. 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.

Lauren Jackson

#24. People want national championship banners. People want to talk about Indiana being competitive. How do we get there? We don't get there with milk and cookies.

Bobby Knight

#25. Bill Russell is one of the great names in basketball, an all-American ... and the only athlete to ever win an NCAA Championship, an Olympic Gold Medal, and a professional championship all in the same year-1956 ... But Bill Russell had this one problem: He threw up before every game.

John Eliot

#26. I probably should've listened to Michael a year ago when he said that Charles will never win a championship because he doesn't show any dedication.

Scottie Pippen

#27. I wish that Prince Charles had been shot. I think it would have made the world a more interesting place.

Steven Morrissey

#28. 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

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

LeBron James

#30. I would tell players to relax and never think about what's at stake. Just think about the basketball game. If you start to think about who is going to win the championship, you've lost your focus.

Michael Jordan

#31. I'm not chasing championships. Championship's chasing us. I'm not doing that. I want my players to be better people once they leave campus because this is a life lesson. This is more than basketball. This is life lessons that we're trying to teach.

Kevin Ollie

#32. A lot of people talk about the Fab Five, and they were wonderful, one of the best teams you'll ever see in college basketball. But the '89 team is the best one to ever play at Michigan in my opinion because they won the national championship. Winning a championship is winning a championship.

Trey Burke

#33. No great spiritual awakening has begun anywhere in the world apart from united prayer.

J. Edwin Orr

#34. 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

#35. The forest fire burns even tree like sandalwood.

Chanakya

#36. Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light

Sallust

#37. If every violent program in the nation were blipped off the air for 48 hours, and replaced by reruns of the 'Donna Reed Show', there would not be one less death in South Central LA. At most you'd have several more incidents of people shooting out their TVs.

J. Michael Straczynski

#38. 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.

Hunter S. Thompson

#39. A lot of guys go through their whole careers and don't win a championship, but are still great coaches.

Chuck Daly