Quotes About Championship

I want wins and losses to matter. That is the point of wrestling, everyone is striving to be a champion and your stature in the company is marked by your win-loss record.

One element of wrestling that I know what I grew up with we put a lot of emphasis towards was the takedown. But, you could win an Olympic championship and never score a takedown, and I don't know if MMA fans are even aware of that.

I wrestled a lot in Texas at Anarchy Championship Wrestling.

When I saw that Wrestlemania had broken an indoor attendance record, I just walked into a wrestling office, Championship Wrestling in Florida, during the offseason, and they introduced me to Hiro Matsuda, who became my mentor... and the rest is history!

If you're holding a championship that means something in the landscape of Japanese wrestling, you're guaranteed to get a huge feature in almost every magazine - you might even be guaranteed a front page. That's big.

The Championship's a tough division, a strong league. Playing in this league, I'm improving and still think I can get to a higher level, definitely, and play more consistent.

People tell me all the time you have to be mentally tough to win the championship, and I feel like enough people hype it up to where you have to act different come playoff time. But I'm not a tough guy. So I don't know how to be tough. I don't know what I'm 'supposed' to be doing.

A lot of people don't understand that playing in the NBA, the toughest thing is to win an NBA championship. I was in the NBA 15 years. I'd been in the playoffs. I'd been in the Finals. But it took me 15 years to finally win one.

The first win came very quick, and I didn't know what it meant to win a major championship. I was a teenager, I was very young. I didn't know what I was doing. I just needed some time to get settled in on the tour.

I want to qualify for the Tour Championship. Being a Georgia Tech grad, playing at East Lake would feel like home.

My big break came at 22 years old when I joined the Mercedes Benz touring championship team.

When I returned to the Touring Car championship, I got the team to create a special brake pedal that I could use with my prosthetic leg.

My first professional fight was a tournament with maybe one or two thousand people there.

We propose that UFC and Akhmat face off in a tournament... And we'll see who has the strongest fighters. I think it would be quite a spectacle.

I have a special feeling for Blue Hills CC, where I won perhaps the most important tournament of my life when I was 14 - the Kansas City Match Play Championship. It gave me a dream of becoming a professional golfer.

In a knockout tournament, it is not really about your own performance - it is about the team.

Emma gave me some of my favorite matches - the NXT Women's Tournament and then NXT ArRIVAL.

It would clearly revolutionise boxing if we could have a tournament in every division.

The seeded draw came into being. This means that the two best players of the tournament are placed in opposite halves in the draw, and cannot possibly meet until the finals, if they come through successfully against all the rest of the participants.

The AAC is the best amateur event in the region and the most important tournament to me every year.

If they could put us all in a tournament, that'd be the best way, but they're not going to do that here at the UFC.

There are things - I want to compete in a big tournament, like an eight-man tournament, like the old fighters. You're going to compete; you're going to fight this one and this one.

My favorite tournament is the U.S. Open because the atmosphere is great.

It's always important when you play in a tournament that they have a basketball court and an arena.