Quotes About Championships

I can't count on both hands how many Grand Prixs I've done and how many world championships I've been to, so I think I've really earned the experience to know that when I step on the ice at nationals and when I step on the ice at the Olympics that I feel completely aware of my environment and what to expect.

If we're about winning world championships, we can't just have all of our focus be on the Olympics.

It is extremely difficult to get a medal at the World Championships, even more than the Olympics. And when one is not 100 per cent prepared, it is next to impossible to win a medal there.

Every time we play, we want to win, that's for sure. It may be the World Championship, the Olympics, the NBA Championship or the South American Championship, but we always want to win.

I'm sure personal accolades are nice and you appreciate them very much. But it's about winning Cups and winning Olympics and winning World Cups and that kind of thing.

The Asian Championships are like the Olympics because the top 6 or top 8 are already here.

I think you only hold U.S. Opens on great courses.

I played ball in college and semi-professional, and aside from the game and all that, the most valuable thing is the relationships. Who can care how many rings you have or how many championships you've won or how many records you broke. The most valuable stuff is the intangible stuff.

Zebras have the unpleasant habit of biting a person and not letting go. They thereby injure even more American zookeepers each year than do tigers! Zebras are also virtually impossible to lasso with a rope—even for cowboys who win rodeo championships by lassoing horses—because of their unfailing ability to watch the rope noose fly toward them and then to duck their head out of the way.

Fans, especially ours, demand championships. That's what we're striving for.

I love the game of basketball, and as long as I can do that, keep playing and try to get some more championships with the organization, I'll be happy.

As an outsider, when you think of Indiana, you think about a place that not only has championships but a championship tradition.

Within a six-month period in 1935 and 1936, the Tigers, Red Wings, and Lions all captured titles as Detroit's own Joe Louis reigned as boxing's uncrowned champion. Detroit remains the only city to score the trifecta of a World Series, a Stanley Cup, and an NFL championship in one season.

You can be the best person in the league but if you don't win championships, something's missing.

I've learned the number one job of a pro manager is not to win championships but to keep their job.

They were a tough, fiery team led by guard Allen Iverson who that year at six feet, 165 pounds, became the smallest player ever to win the MVP award. Iverson dismissed talk of a sweep, pointing to his heart and saying, "Championships are won here.

Bill ran the box office for the 1983 Romeo and Juliet, played the piano, endured elocution lessons, fenced and played cards: bridge at Xavier but later five hundred. Shorten's love of cards – of bluff and bidding – is a key to the boy and the man. Only in his final year did he outshine his brother as a debater; he was chosen for the state team in the national championships of 1984.

Even though we both won championships that year, it was events that meant more to me than what happened on the ice. It was those lessons I learned just preceding and during the championship season, which still affect me to this very day.

The Olympics will be great for the growth of golf on a global scale, but my focus right now is on being the best player I can be, trying to win Major Championships and contributing to what will hopefully be a victorious European side at the forthcoming Ryder Cup Matches against the USA.

As you get older, every chance to win a championship is more crucial, because you are going to have less and less of them.

Our dad made everything competitive for me and brother. It always was a world championship, a national championship, Big 10 championship. It was always at stake in everything we did.

talking about, just look at the Celtics.

I won the 2011 Visa Championships, the 2012 Pacific Rims, and then the 2013 American Cup (the first and only senior elite competition of my elite career).

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.