Championship Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• The ideal way to win a championship is step by step.

  Phil Jackson

  Basketball, Winning, Way

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• You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Winning, Free Throw

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• Championship teams are built on being prepared, playing unselfishly and being held accountable.

  Jason Kidd

  Basketball, Team, Nba

  "Kidd to coach Nets". www.foxnews.com. June 12, 2013.

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• I'll be too old to face a difficult championship as the one in America will surely be.

  Diego Maradona

  America, Faces, Difficult

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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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• If you play good attack, you win the game, but, if you play good defence you win championships

  Zeljko Obradovic

  Basketball, Winning, Games

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• 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

  Basketball, Drama, Thinking

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• 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

  Basketball, Team, Hard

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• Actually, Magic and the Lakers beat Philadelphia for Magic's first NBA Championship.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Nba Championships, Philadelphia

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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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• 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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• 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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• It's a huge challenge for us to get the (43) car back to Victory Lane, to get the car in the Chase, to get back to where I would love to see us win the championship, ... Is it a reality next year You've seen a lot of things happen in the sport and you look at it and ask 'How'd that happen'

  Robbie Loomis

  Sports, Winning, Reality

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• You can play and try to get focused for that time, but still the reality of that whole situation is once that game is over you still have to be confronted with what's going on. I think that's where the senior leadership on your football team has to come. They have to understand that we have a responsibility to reach our goals and that's to win the championship.

  Pete Richardson

  Senior, Football, Team

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• Despite winning the world championship, it has not altered the reality of the situation.

  Wayne Huizenga

  Winning, Reality, World

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• This is following through on the market correction and a lot of mixed emotions, ... We had players who were with us in '03 who helped us win a championship. It's a business, but we've had a lot of history with a lot of these guys. The recognition of what they've done is not going to be lost, but the reality of the situation is the reality of the situation.

  Larry Beinfest

  Winning, Player, Reality

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• I've been here for eight years and I'm going into my 13th season. There's nothing I'd have liked better than to retire as a Jet. But the reality is, they released me. My goal now is not to break the bank. I did that twice already with my original contract and a restructuring. It's about winning a championship, and from this point forward, I'm going to go to the team that gives me the best chance to win a Super Bowl.

  Kevin Mawae

  Team, Winning, Reality

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• People think I would never take on a team that has no legitimate chance to win a championship, This is one of the major misconceptions about me. Success can be measured in many different ways. . . . Either way, I would find the challenge invigorating.

  Phil Jackson

  Team, Winning, Thinking

  Phil Jackson (2005). “The Last Season: A Team in Search of Its Soul”, Penguin Group USA

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• Everyone said, 'Emil, you are a fool!'
  But when I first won the European Championship, they said: 'Emil, you are a genius!'

  Emil Zatopek

  Genius, Fool, Firsts

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• College coaches measure success in championships. High School coaches measure success to titles. Youth coaches measure success in smiles.

  Paul McAllister

  School, College, Coaching

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• 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

  Basketball, Ucla, Practice

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• Any team that does not win it's conference championship game should not play in the BCS title game

  Nick Saban

  Team, Winning, Games

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• I do not judge success based on championships; rather, I judge it on how close we came to realizing our potential

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Nba, Judging

  John Wooden (2011). “Wooden's Complete Guide to Leadership (EBOOK BUNDLE)”, p.12, McGraw-Hill Professional

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