Championship Quotes - Page 5

• If St. Andrews is the home of golf, I think Pebble Beach feels like the home of American golf, like the home of championship golf. It has a real sense of history here.

  Stewart Cink

  Beach, Real, Home

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• Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, Winning, Games

  Pat Head Summitt (1998). “Reach for the Summit: The Definite Dozen System for Succeeding at Whatever You Do”, Broadway

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• I want to play for a championship team. I want to win a championship.

  Richard Jefferson

  Team, Winning, Play

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• I saw this college team bowling championship. Each team had their own coach. What kind of strategy advice is a bowling coach giving? "You know what? This time Timmy, I want you to knock down all the pins." "You sure?" "Trust me. Just do it son!"

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Team, Son

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

  Chuck Daly

  Basketball, Winning, Careers

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• I felt like we would have definitely won an NBA championship if everyone was healthy.

  Kyrie Irving

  Nba Championships, Healthy, Felt

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• I'm not a player, I'm an alien...My focus is on winning championships. I don't focus on anything else. Aliens only want to win championships.

  Metta World Peace

  Winning, Player, Focus

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• Every championship, by definition, is historic.

  George Vecsey

  Definitions, Historic

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• I spent the nights before the Jets' two biggest games last year - for the AFL championship and the Super Bowl - with girls. But I don't consider that bad or foolish of me... The night before a game, I prepare myself both mentally and physically for the next day. I think a ballplayer has to be relaxed to play well; and if that involves being with a girl that night, he should do it.

  Joe Namath

  Girl, Night, Thinking

  "The Playboy Interview: Sports Gods". Interview with Lawrence Linderman, thestacks.deadspin.com. 1969.

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• It is my thought that clean living and a strict observance of the golden rule of true sportsmanship are foundation stones without which a championship structure cannot be built.

  Major Taylor

  Sportsmanship, Foundation, Stones

  Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”

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• I had gotten rid of the crying when I got to high school, though it happened again when I was a junior. We lost in the state championship. It was kind of the same situation, camera in my face, and then that's when I realized it was over I had my moment.

  Chris Bosh

  School, Cameras, Juniors

  "Not a Third Wheel: A GQ&A with Chris Bosh". Interview with Mark Anthony Green, www.gq.com. January 12, 2012.

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• I started to really believe in myself, and my abilities, when I won the World Under-10 championship in Doral, Florida. I was nine and saw for the first time that I was amongst the best players in the world for my age. This was a massive confidence-builder for me.

  Rory McIlroy

  Believe, Player, Florida

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• For me right now I think being the world number one is a bigger deal than being the world champion because I think it shows better who plays the best chess. That sounds self-serving but I think it's also right.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Thinking, Self, Play

  "The Top Chess Player In The World Impressed The Heck Out Of Everyone At This NYC Exhibition". Interview with Gus Lubin, www.businessinsider.com. September 4, 2012.

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• I just love playing in major championships.

  Inbee Park

  Majors

  "Wegmans LPGA Championship Wednesday Pre-Tournament Notes". Interview, www.lpga.com. June 5, 2013.

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• Practice is important. The regular season is important. Your meetings are important. Your walk-through is important. Everything is important. You want to be a championship team, there's a price to pay. And that's what you have to do. There's no shortcuts. You can't shortcut your way to success.

  Tom Thibodeau

  Team, Practice, Important

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• 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

  Basketball, Life Lesson, Player

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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

  Eric Bolling

  Winning, Defense, Beats

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I remember one guy, Reg Park, a British bodybuilder, who entered Mr Universe when he was very young. But he won it and continued to win it a second and third time. So, he was my idol. I read everything about Reg Park and followed his footsteps and trained like him. I said if he could make it, I could make it. It was a blueprint, basically, for how to get there, to win the championships.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Winning, Idols, Guy

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Americans really don't know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners.

  Bobby Fischer

  Thinking, World, Chess

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• I can honestly say that two weeks after the national championship year, I'd forgotten about it and started laying the groundwork for spring practice. And so every year, that's been the thing that's motivated me. . . .

  LaVell Edwards

  Spring, Years, Practice

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• A team doesn't win the championship if its players are working from different agendas.

  John C. Maxwell

  Team, Winning, Player

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You”, p.186, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Becoming the first Canadian male to win a Major Championship, especially being the Masters, was a dream come true.

  Mike Weir

  Dream, Winning, Males

  Skysports.com Interview, www.skysports.com. July 3, 2011.

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• That team across the way, you tip your hat to them. They did a great job. It showed in these Finals.

  LeBron James

  Jobs, Team, Nba Championships

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• For them to have the season that they had, for them to have us on the ropes ... Congrats to the Cavs.

  Steve Kerr

  Nba Championships, Rope, Congrats

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• The common denominator is that we have guys who are really hungry to show what they can do.

  Andre Iguodala

  Nba Championships, Guy, Common

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