Championship Quotes - Page 12

• 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

  Leadership, Sports, Baseball

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• Searching for funds to continue my skating career when I was 17, I called the Women's Sports Foundation in New York. The intern who answered the phone suggested that I might be a great candidate for the Travel and Training fund, and she sent me an application form. I applied for a grant. With the funds I was awarded, I bought a new pair of skates and a plane ticket to the 1988 National Championships, where I achieved my highest national finish. Four years later, I won the gold medal at the 1992 Olympic Games.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  Leadership, Sports, New York

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• We are the best team of the tournament and deserved the title but luck did not favour us. I think the future of this team is good. If we play more friendly matches and target the SAFF Championship, I think this team can deliver that title.

  Mamunul Islam

  Team, Thinking, Play

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• 'Moonwalking with Einstein' refers to a memory device I used when I memorized a deck of playing cards at the U.S. Memory Championship. When I competed in 2006, I set a new U.S. record by memorizing a deck of cards in one minute and 40 seconds. That record has since fallen.

  Joshua Foer

  Memories, Cards, Records

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• 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

  Team, Thinking, Ice

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• I had to persevere because this was my life. This championship, this was the stuff I dreamt of all my life, and I wasn't gonna be denied.

  Mike Tyson

  Motivation, Fear, Stuff

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• Playing black, I put great stake in the Ruy Lopez: I liked it, feel it, and understand it; in matches with Hjartarson and Timman it served me well. - on preparing for World Championship versus Garry Kasparov

  Anatoly Karpov

  Black, World, Chess

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• The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.

  Dan Wheldon

  Two, Race, Able

  "Indianapolis 500 Winner Dan Wheldon Dies After Massive Crash", www.foxnews.com. October 17, 2011.

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• Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt.

  Jack Wagner

  Son, Air, Three

  "Final exam with Jack Wagner". Interview with Brian Murphy, www.golfdigest.com. November 1, 2007.

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• People confuse being world No. 1 with winning a Major championship.

  Lee Westwood

  Winning, People, World

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• I thought long and hard about my future this past year and during the offseason, and I've decided 2015 will be the last time I compete for a championship.

  Jeff Gordon

  Past, Years, Long

  "Jeff Gordon to retire as full-time driver after 2015 season", January 22, 2015.

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• When you think about Peyton Manning, you think about numbers. When you think about Tom Brady, you think about championships

  Ray Lewis

  Thinking, Numbers, Brady

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• I am looking forward to continue my career in Orange & Blue and to work with Phil Jackson, a champion who builds championship teams. Madison Square Garden is the mecca of basketball and I am surrounded by the greatest fans in the world.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Basketball, Team, Garden

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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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• 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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• As good as we were, we didn’t win a National Championship until 1993, mainly because we kept losing to Miami on missed kicks. I used to get mad because nobody else would play Miami. Notre Dame would play them, then drop them. Florida dropped them. Penn State dropped them. We would play Miami and lose by one point on a missed field goal, and it would knock us out of the National Championship. I didn’t want to play them, either, but I had to play them. That’s why I said, 'When I die, They’ll say, ‘At least he played Miami.'

  Bobby Bowden

  Winning, Florida, Play

  "The case for FSU's dynasty" by Mark Schlabach, www.espn.com. December 25, 2012.

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• At Alabama, our players don't win Heisman Trophies. Our teams win National Championships.

  Bear Bryant

  Team, Winning, Player

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• The Celtics don't celebrate anything but championships.

  Paul Pierce

  Celebrate

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• I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading.

  Pat Bowlen

  Memories, Loss, Fading

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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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• All that now seems to stand between Nigel and the prospect of the world crown is the unfortunate fact that fate brought him into this world only two years after Kasparov.

  Garry Kasparov

  Fate, Years, Two

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• The cherished dream of every chessplayer is to play a match with the World Champion. But here is the paradox: the closer you come to the realization of this goal, the less you think about it.

  Mikhail Tal

  Dream, Thinking, Play

  Mikhail Tal (2011). “Tal-Botvinnik 1960: Match For the World Chess Championship”, p.9, SCB Distributors

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• When I started out playing chess as a kid I thought I should be world champion. As a kid you have no idea what that means and you only sort of picture it. It is hard to imagine that I waited all those years and it happened in a late stage of my career.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Mean, Kids, Years

  "Devil's Advocate: Viswanathan Anand on mind games". CNN-IBN interview, en.chessbase.com. May 13, 2008.

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• In the current FIDE World Championship, on the knock-out system, weaker players have good chances. Those, who in a long match would practically have no chance, here may creep through.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Player, Long, World

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• Looking at the championship-winning quarterbacks, Edwards remembered their particular talents: Gary Sheide: The image of Joe Namath. He even had Joe's number. Had just a great feel and touch for the game. A great athlete who could play all the sports. He was more of a streak guy than any of them. He could miss two or three passes and then get hot and hit ten straight. He was the one who got it all started.

  LaVell Edwards

  Sports, Athlete, Winning

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