Championship Quotes - Page 13

• If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.

  Walter Smith

  Success, Sports, Team

  "Walter Smith says a final goodbye to a troubled Rangers" by Ewan Murray, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2011.

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• (On upcoming racing plans) Right now I am going to go back into training and then I am going to resurface and do the BAA Mile, The Boston Mile, and then I am going to do the USA Championships Mile out in Des Moines, Iowa. Then it is either going to be between The Penn or Drake Relays and then I will go back into training again and start another kind of session.

  Leonel Manzano

  Athlete, Boston, Iowa

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• (About plan during Texas Relays) Have fun, be healthy, and enjoy the Relays for what it is. I'll just try to use the crowd and get some adrenaline and have a good time; just work on some things in this environment. This is almost a championship environment when you get down to it- with all of the fans, the energy and the adrenaline you get lining up. It's good rehearsal for the bigger stages and it's the season opener. This is the starting point. We're just looking for some starting points and to use some adrenaline to our advantage.

  Trey Hardee

  Fun, Athlete, Texas

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• 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

  Athlete, Past, Emotional

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• Therefore, as a player, as a coach, even though we might have lost in a season or not won a championship, it was like a self-fulfilling prophecy that I'm going to win some time. I've never felt myself a loser.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Loss, Winning, Player

  "Duke of the Court". The Academy of Achievement Interveiw, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• When you get a little older, you think, I'd like to make a little money and stick it away or buy a place - or win the world championship.

  Chris LeDoux

  Winning, Thinking, World

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• There's just a pit that develops in your stomach and doesn't go away. It's the championship pit and it's there.

  Jimmie Johnson

  Going Away, Pits, Stomach

  "Richmond II: Post race press conference - Johnson". www.motorsport.com. September 12, 2010.

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

  Denny Hamlin

  Guy, Easier, Type

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• Pressure is working down the pit. Pressure is having no work at all. Pressure is trying to escape relegation on 50 shillings a week. Pressure is not the European Cup or the Championship or the Cup Final. That's the reward.

  Bill Shankly

  Trying, Finals, Pits

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• Of course they remember. But it's not gonna be about revenge; it's gonna be about the Big Ten championship.

  Shannon Brown

  Revenge, Remember, Bigs

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

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Winning, Challenges

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• Greece won the 2004 European Championship with the oldest trick in the book: man-for-man marking. Why? Because nobody expected it - and by the time they knew what Otto Rehhagel's team were about, it was too late. Great football is like great comedy in that way. It is all in the timing.

  Martin Samuel

  Soccer, Football, Team

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• Too many times, people don't try their best. They don't have the keen spirit; the winning spirit. And once you make it you've got to guard your reputation - every day go in like an unknown to prove yourself. That's why I don't clown around. I don't believe in wasting time. My goal is to win the World Chess Championship; to beat the Russians. I take this very seriously.

  Bobby Fischer

  Success, Believe, Winning

  Svetozar Gligorić, Bobby Fischer, Boris Vasilyevich Spassky (1972). “Fischer v Spassky: the World Chess Championship Match, 1972”

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• And you want to know why track and field is dying in this country? Kids today can watch Kobe Bryant go end-to-end and Randy Moss run a down-and-out and Ichiro Suzuki go from first to third and they will see it start to finish, in real time, the outcome happening before their eyes. But the men's 400 relay finals at the world championships? On your mark, get set . . . we'll show it to you in four hours on another network.

  Mike Penner

  Sports, Country, Running

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• Just to be mentioned in the same sentence with those guys feels good, but I want to take it to another level. I respect those guys because they did it. I'm trying to get where they're at, where people talk about me bringing a championship here.

  Takeo Spikes

  People, Feel Good, Guy

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• I watched the Olympics as a kid. It would be fun to try to win a medal. If I could swap Olympic gold for a US PGA Championship? I'd take the Major every time.

  Luke Donald

  Fun, Kids, Winning

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• The GP2 championship costs 0.65 percent of what the Formula One championship costs. I don't understand why GP2 cost $2.5 million and our team and other teams cost maybe between $300 and $500 million. I do not see what the difference is.

  Flavio Briatore

  Team, Differences, Cost

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• I am the best wrestler in the world. I've been the best ever since day one when I walked into this company, and I've been vilified and hated since that day because Paul Heyman saw something in me that nobody else wanted to admit. That's right, I'm a Paul Heyman guy. You know who else was a Paul Heyman guy? Brock Lesnar, and he split just like I'm splitting, but the biggest difference between me and Brock is I'm going to leave with the WWE Championship.

  CM Punk

  Wwe, Differences, Guy

  TV Series "WWE Raw" (June 27, 2011), (1993– ).

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• Brett Favre plays for championships. That's the only reason he puts up with all of this stuff. He's going to start to figure out, if it's true, that the Packers are not going to be competing for championships. The moment that comes into his heart - oh my gosh, the Packers are not going to be able to make it - that's the day he retires. It won't take much once he realizes that's where the Packers are going.

  Steve Young

  Heart, Play, Able

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• We want to win it all. The only reason we play this game is to win championships.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Winning, Games

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

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Not Ready, Hard

  "LeBron: I'm coming back to Cleveland" by Lee Jenkins, www.si.com. July 11, 2014.

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• 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

  Sports, Good Friend, Three

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• 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

  Football, Gratitude, Team

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• It's torturous what my siblings put me through. I can take any Olympic final, I can fight in a world championship and fall behind and win in sudden death, but when it comes to my siblings, it's out of my control. There's not much I can do.

  Steven Lopez

  Sibling, Fall, Fighting

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• We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors

  Pat Summitt

  Girl, Volleyball, Winning

  Pat Summitt (2012). “Raise the Roof”, p.15, Three Rivers Press

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