Top 100 Quotes About Championships
#1. Personal honors never meant much to Bill Russell, one of America's most successful athletes with 2 college titles, 1 Olympic gold medal and 11 - count 'em, 11 - N.B.A. championships with the Boston Celtics.
George Vecsey
#2. I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading.
Pat Bowlen
#3. I stay patient. I don't go out there and try to set a course record. That's probably one of my strengths and one reason I've been able to win major championships.
Annika Sorenstam
#4. 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
#5. We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors
Pat Summitt
#6. The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves.
Mike Ditka
#7. I've had more world championships than you've had women!
Ric Flair
#8. At Alabama, our players don't win Heisman Trophies. Our teams win National Championships.
Bear Bryant
#9. In sports, championships often define a person's legacy.
Don Yaeger
#10. I've always been proud to represent my country, whether it be World Cups, European Championships or just friendly games, I've always been a proud person, I'm very patriotic.
David Beckham
#11. It's not about being a head coach, I'd rather be a DC at Auburn and win championships.
Will Muschamp
#12. 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
#13. Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
Pat Summitt
#14. Inner peace is not found in things like baseball and world championships. As long as I feel I've done the best job I possibly could, I'm satisfied.
Sparky Anderson
#15. The 1984 European Championships were held in France and that was something important. I felt on form then, even though I was practically always injured at all the World Cups. It's a great memory. But in any case, the past is past.
Michel Patini
#17. There's a lot of history in Boston and a lot of history, obviously, in New York with all the championships.
Rafael Palmeiro
#18. 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
#19. In Phil's case, I was personally thrilled he came back, because I think it's huge for the league. When you think about what he's done and how many championships he's won, there's always drama when he comes back in.
Gregg Popovich
#20. I dont believe it wins championships. (It) gets you to the playoffs.
Byron Scott
#21. Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.
Bill Parcells
#22. If I had won ... all those other championships, my life might be totally different, but I didn't win. It's not going to affect my life.
Greg Norman
#23. My extensive career, with its victories and defeats, championships, etc., has been well documented. My entire life has been focused on being the best race car driver I can be.
Scott Pruett
#24. When I gave up law to go into real estate, my mother said, 'How can you give up the law?' But she lived long enough to see the Bulls win all six championships. She would wear all six pendants at the same time. She could barely stand up.
Jerry Reinsdorf
#25. I fancy our chances at the European Championships.
Frank Lampard
#26. But I'm after medals more than anything. Championships don't get taken away from you but records do, so I think I'd rather have medals at every championships rather than times. A world record would be a bonus, but I'm still only 25 in 17 days.
Sally Pearson
#27. The Olympic Games are not just ordinary world championships but a quadrennial festival of universal youth ... celebrated by each succeeding generation as it arrives on the threshold of adulthood.
Pierre De Coubertin
#28. Offense sells tickets, but defense wins championships.
Bear Bryant
#29. [Wayne Rooney ] best tournament was the 2004 European Championships, when he played alongside me and made such a big impact, but it hasn't happened for him at the World Cup for one reason or another.
Michael Owen
#30. I don't think my style of play is what has prevented me from winning major championships. I think that execution has been more of a factor.
Phil Mickelson
#31. Championships are not won on the night of a big event, but years before by athletes who commit themselves daily to championship principles
Dick Devenzio
#32. 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.
Vanessa Mae
#33. Tomboy. Alright, call me a tomboy. Tomboys get medals. Tomboys win championships. Tomboys can fly. Oh. And tomboys aren't boys.
Julie Foudy
#34. When people ask me now if I miss coaching UCLA basketball games, the national championships, the attention, the trophies, and everything that goes with them, I tell them this: I miss the practices.
John Wooden
#35. I won 1,098 games, and eight national championships, and coached in four different decades. But what I see are not the numbers. I see their faces.
Pat Summitt
#36. When I wrapped 'Falling Skies,' I took a trip to the Caribbean to visit my grandma, which is great. I was out there for two weeks in Grenada. Then after that, I went to Poland for two and a half weeks to go watch some of the European soccer championships.
Brandon Jay McLaren
#37. I would say that it's quadruple what I've had when I've won major championships in the past. I've gotten faxes and phone calls from all over the world. It's been overwhelming. It's really changed my opinion of humanity.
Greg Norman
#38. Nobody achieves anything great by giving the minimum. No teams win championships without making sacrifices and giving their best.
John C. Maxwell
#39. I began playing in the Pacific Coast Indoor Tennis Championships.
Tracy Austin
#40. Real talent doesn't always win championships, like real music doesn't always win Grammys.
Drake
#41. There are many things I'm looking forward to in 2013, both personally and professionally. Plans for new restaurants in the U.S., including Eataly Chicago, are underway, and I'm gearing up for the 2013 Ironman world championships in Hawaii - if I'm lucky enough to get a spot!
Joe Bastianich
#42. I can say when it comes to championships it's a tactical race and normally you don't have a pacesetter who can set a pace for fast times. That is why you see that obviously we fall around 1:43 because that is the most favorable one can run from the front.
David Rudisha
#43. I do not judge success based on championships; rather, I judge it on how close we came to realizing our potential
John Wooden
#44. You always want to have good balance. That's the key to winning a Super Bowl. You look at the teams who have won championships, you got to have balance. So, to be able to run the ball effectively and throw the ball effectively is what gives you the chance to win a world championship.
John Elway
#45. 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,
Valentino Garavani
#46. College coaches measure success in championships. High School coaches measure success to titles. Youth coaches measure success in smiles.
Paul McAllister
#47. No matter how much you've won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no matter how many Super Bowls, you're not winning now, so you stink.
Bill Parcells
#48. There are only two types of player-those who keep their nerves under control and win championships, and those who do not.
Harry Vardon
#49. I started at a 'learn to swim' scheme when I was about five-years-old. I did it to learn water safety, but it was fun and I loved the water. I went to a club, moved up through the ranks and got better and better before taking part in my first national championships.
Liam Tancock
#50. I focus on one thing and one thing only - that's trying to win as many championships as I can.
Kobe Bryant
#51. The major championships have always been a special focus in my career, and as a professional, I think Augusta is where I need to be.
Tiger Woods
#52. I'm trying to let winning the world championships settle in right now before I begin training again shortly. During the skating season, we skate on average 20 kilometres a day. On top of that, we're riding a lot and lifting a lot of weights.
Clara Hughes
#53. I think that major championships are as much about attitude as they are anything else.
Tom Lehman
#54. I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.
Oscar Pistorius
#55. Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition. I'll let everyone else worry about championships. I'm going to worry about qualifying at Pomona.
Larry Dixon
#56. Sports are not about awards or world championships, though those are great. They're about the relationships we have with each other.
Mia Hamm
#57. So spring break consisted of seven fun-filled days cooped up in the
house with Jeffrey, who was grounded because he'd won the Regional Wrestling
Championships
Cynthia Hand
#58. People ask me all the time now, what's the most memorable moment of your career? It's always the championships. The first goal, the 50th - it doesn't matter. It's always the championships.
Paul Coffey
#59. I think it's great the opportunity is given to all of us really to come out and play major championships after the real major championships have gone beyond us.
Greg Norman
#60. Pre-season was very challenging with the African Championships on my continent. Unfortunately, I failed to qualify for the Games there. It was an emotional moment for me due to the context, but I quickly accepted the result as evidence of what my preparation has been the past 3 years.
Benjamin Boukpeti
#61. I've achieved everything I ever wanted. I've done three Olympics, world championships, I've been around the world and made good friends. But I still have the inner drive to do more, to be not just good, but to be great.
Leisel Jones
#62. I was probably born a scorer, but I was made a winner. Whatever works, whatever wins championships, wins games, that's what I do.
Kobe Bryant
#63. You've got to be a Lakers fan growing up in L.A. with all these championships.
Akeem Ayers
#64. I don't get grumpy at a 'Strictly' level, you understand. We're just making a television show - the person I'm dancing with can't dance; they're doing their best, and we're not going to win the World Championships.
Anton Du Beke
#65. For all his horses, knighthoods and championships, he hasn't got two of what I've got. And I don't mean balls!
Brian Clough
#66. This is a tournament. The others are all championships.
Jack Nicklaus
#67. Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.
Pat Summitt
#68. Defense wins championships. A good offense is beat by a good defense, always.
Eric Bolling
#69. 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
#70. Rio 2016 is definitely on my mind, and I would really like to go to some more World Championships before that.
McKayla Maroney
#71. If Tim Duncan had 'Knicks' on his jersey, he'd be a god. He'd be more than Patrick Ewing. With four championships and two MVPs, I think people realize he's one of the best ever, but if he played in New York, he'd be way more famous.
Tony Parker
#72. I've lived through a lot of division championships, a lot of final-four appearances, but our goal is further than that. We want to deliver a Super Bowl.
Jeffrey Lurie
#73. If you play good attack, you win the game, but, if you play good defence you win championships
Zeljko Obradovic
#74. Fans, especially ours, demand championships. That's what we're striving for.
Clay Matthews III
#75. I went from junior hockey to the World Junior Championships to the combine and the draft, to the Blackhawks camp, and then a full NHL season and then the World Championships. At nineteen, that's exhausting.
Patrick Kane
#76. The Olympics will be great for the growth of golf on a global scale, but my focus right now is on being the best player I can be, trying to win Major Championships and contributing to what will hopefully be a victorious European side at the forthcoming Ryder Cup Matches against the USA.
Rory McIlroy
#77. It never bothered me when people would say, 'You only win championships because you're playing with Shaq.' It bothered me when he said it.
Kobe Bryant
#78. When you're in championships, it's never about what you do. It's always about what other people do.
Shaquille O'Neal
#79. Each of us, if we would grow, must be committed to excellence. The championships, the money, the color; all of these things linger only in the memory. It is the spirit, the will to excel, the will to win; these are the things that endure.
Vince Lombardi
#80. I used to dream of medals and championships, but now I dream solely of a blue-eyed fighter who one day changed my life, when he put his lips on mine. . .
Katy Evans
#81. The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.
Kurtis Blow
#82. At big championships it's not the fastest person, it's the person who gets it right on the day.
Paula Radcliffe
#83. I think it's just a coincidence that the North American teams are out. Most of us here have been playing in North America for a long time. Our knowledge of the big ice has been world championships here and there, same for the Canadians and the Americans. I don't see it as an advantage.
Daniel Alfredsson
#84. I'm not going to be a guy that retires and keeps coming back. When I'm gone, I'm gone. Same thing as amateur wrestling; when I won the world championships in Olympics, I left and I never went back. Same for pro.
Kurt Angle
#85. 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
#86. When you think about Peyton Manning, you think about numbers. When you think about Tom Brady, you think about championships
Ray Lewis
#87. When I look back at the world championships, I know there's a lot of room for improvement, I'm always up for a challenge. The Olympics, they don't define me, I've had some good and some bad. But it's all about the Olympic experience.
Michelle Kwan
#88. You just try to absorb as much as you can from someone who has won as many races and championships as he has. Career wise, he's been the greatest thing that's happened to me.
Larry Dixon
#89. We had a party with the rest of the skaters in our trailer and then the next day we were off to see Jimmy Carter. And then we had the World Championships the next weekend, so not a lot of chance to catch up.
Eric Heiden
#90. In the '80s, when Gretzky came to the World Championships in the second or third game, you'd see this guy skating circles around the other ones. Unbelievable.
Hasso Plattner
#91. My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'.
Haile Gebrselassie
#92. Players dont win championships, organizations do!
Jerry Krause
#93. You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.
Larry Dixon
#94. The Celtics don't celebrate anything but championships.
Paul Pierce
#95. It's great to see the World Rowing Championships returning to U.S. soil for the first time in 25 years. I am even more excited that it will be taking place in my home state of Florida. Regardless of where my rowing career takes me, I am sure to be in attendance in Sarasota in 2017.
Stephen Young
#96. You can be the best person in the league but if you don't win championships, something's missing.
Terrell Davis
#97. Championships and great seasons are won in locker rooms.
Tom Izzo
#99. We lost one, we won two and we lost another one. We'll take 50 percent in four years in championships any day. Obviously, we want to win all of them, but that's just the nature of the game. Not proud of the way we played in this series.
LeBron James
#100. I was Mayor of New York during a great Yankees dynasty. I got to preside over the city during four Yankees championships.
Rudy Giuliani
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