Quotes About Championships

LeBron will not likely win six rings.

Bill Russell was the pivot on which the whole sport turned.

Growing up in L.A., every kid wants to play for the Lakers. As a kid I went to their championship parades, bought a Kobe jersey - I went to the gym and made everybody call me Kobe - loved Shaq, loved the three-peat.

The uptake of people getting involved in cycling is partly down to the big success the team has had in the Tour de France, the Olympics and the World Championships.

Bill Russell, the Boston Celtics great who won more championship rings as a player than anyone else (eleven), revealed in his memoir, Second Wind, that he sometimes secretly rooted for the opposing team during big games because if they were doing well, it meant he would have a more heightened experience.

I remember all the important fights. Vividly. In detail.

There are major fights for me in the middleweight division. Those are the fights I want and I've been very vocal about it.

Personally, it doesn't matter to me if I had the worst career stats in N.B.A. history as long as I got my 'ships. The 'ships, it shuts everything up.

When Ronaldinho arrived at Barcelona, they did not win anything. After my arrival, we won it all.

The biggest thing was just getting comfortable out there in front of all the people and just the whole major setting and how difficult major championships are, how patient... you have to be.

My goal is to live out my dreams, to have a long NBA career, win championships and provide for them. My mom works two jobs. She does security and event staffing. My sister is a waitress. Anytime I'm down or don't want to work out, I remember our situation and what I've got to keep doing.

After you win all these belts, you cannot fight all these mandatory guys.

I was lucky enough to play in three Super Bowls and two Arena Bowls.

What I think happened to the new arenas is that you need some memories. I remember going when the Staples Center first opened and it was like, 'OK,' but a couple championships later, and all of a sudden it becomes your house. You have to stake claim to it.

To sum it up, I would say that the Premier League is football's NBA.

You can't talk about the NFL without the Raiders, the three Super Bowl championships, what Al Davis meant to the league.

I've lived through a lot of division championships, a lot of final-four appearances, but our goal is further than that. We want to deliver a Super Bowl.

The great player, so much of the greatness, in my mind, is in his heart and his head. It's not in his body, in his skill set. It comes from having great talent but wanting to mold that and fit it together into being special. And being special means winning championships.

The Warriors getting Kevin Durant, yes you won championships, which I guess is all that matters, I think at the end, and I'm just saying this as someone from the outside, it almost looks like it diminishes everything that was accomplished before him. It takes the allure of the Warriors away.

We want to win everything: League, cup, Champions League and Supercopa.

I have won Serie B, Serie C, Serie D like the Championship, League One, and League Two here in England.

There's some great, great players that have played this game, in all sports, that haven't won a championship.

I think it's great the opportunity is given to all of us really to come out and play major championships after the real major championships have gone beyond us.

It is never the case that I will push myself more for the World Championships and play differently in a Super Series or vice-versa.