Championship Quotes

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  The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves.

  Mike Ditka

  Motivational, Sports, Athlete

  Mike Ditka, Don Pierson (1987). “Ditka: An Autobiography”

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• You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.

  James J. Corbett

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

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• Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

  Bill Parcells

  Team, Winning, Games

  Bill Parcells (1995). “Finding a Way to Win: The Principles of Leadership, Teamwork, and Motivation”, Doubleday Books

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• If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart.

  Chris Evert

  Heart, Tennis, Champion

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• Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.

  Alan Armstrong

  Sports, Running, Athlete

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• After the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty, after the headlines have been written and after you are back in the quiet of your room and the championship ring has been placed on the dresser and all the pomp and fanfare has faded, the enduring things that are left are: the dedication to excellence, the dedication to victory, and the dedication to doing with our lives the very best we can to make the world a better place in which to live.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Cheer, Dedication

  Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leaders: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.261, McGraw Hill Professional

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  Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

  Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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• They were ridiculous times. After I won my World Championship in 1976, I went to Japan.

  Barry Sheene

  Japan, World, Ridiculous

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• Who ever wins today will win the championship no matter who wins.

  Denis Law

  Soccer, Winning, Matter

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• You don't even have to win a championship every year to draw the fans. You just have to show you're really trying.

  Tom Hicks

  Winning, Years, Trying

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• Sugar Ray Robinson was at the top of the boxing world during the 1950's when it seemed that he would either win or lose the championship about every three or four months.

  Dick Schaap

  Winning, Boxing, Sugar

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• I won player of the year and players' player, two cups and two championship medals, had a great time.

  Paul Gascoigne

  Player, Years, Two

  "I'm Gazza - and I am an alcoholic". Interview with Ian Ridley, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2001.

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• My goal had been to win a championship, work toward the Hall of Fame, have my jersey retired by the team and I'd go in as a lifelong New York Giant, but I'm now resigned to the fact that this won't happen.

  Michael Strahan

  Sports, New York, Team

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• It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Motivational, Summer, Softball

  "The Green Fields of the Mind," Yale Alumni Magazine, Nov. 1977

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• Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

  Magic Johnson

  Inspiring, Basketball, Teamwork

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• Going to Omaha for the College World Series - the people there are tremendous - huge crowds and a lot of excitement. I still remember those days - you make a lot of friends that you never forget when you win a championship like that.

  Roger Clemens

  Sports, Winning, College

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. January 26, 2006.

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• I think this can be a championship team. But we do have to take it one game at a time. You can't look at the end of the road before you get the next foot in.

  Michael Strahan

  Sports, Team, Thinking

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• Before we can talk about a championship, we have to practice like a championship team.

  Mike Singletary

  Success, Team, Practice

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• That's the only reason I'm here. I don't need to play the game for any other reason than to win a championship.

  Drew Bledsoe

  Sports, Winning, Games

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• When we won the league championship, all the married guys on the club had to thank their wives for putting up with all the stress and strain all season. I had to thank all the single broads in New York.

  Joe Namath

  New York, Stress, League

  "Ladies love Teflon Tom -- no matter what" by Jemele Hill, www.espn.com. January 31, 2008.

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• Each championship is unique and special.

  Trish Stratus

  Unique, Special

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• There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Motivation, Attitude

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• Those opportunities to play in championship games are few and far between

  Jack Youngblood

  Opportunity, Games, Play

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  From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

  Arthur Ashe

  Inspirational, Kindness, Teaching

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• We just want to win. That's the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content with one championship or a little bit of success, but we don't really reflect on what we've done in the past. We focus on the present.

  Derek Jeter

  Success, Winning, Past

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