Quotes About Championship

I spent two great seasons playing in the Russian championship. I could have stayed there, but I went to the Premier League, which is much more competitive and requires much greater levels of fitness.

I had other proposals and I was talking to people but then I decided that staying at Ferrari would give me my best chance of winning the championship.

Getting to the Premier League is significant enough. But staying in it is another thing entirely, particularly when you've not spent much and kept the core of the team that was promoted from the Championship and was not even fancied to do so in the first place.

The minute you step off that podium is the minute you start preparing for the next world championship. That's kind of how I work. You celebrate for a brief moment, then you move on.

When you look at coaching in the pros 25-plus years, I have been with rebuilding teams and I have been with championship teams, and so I know all the steps in-between.

It's no secret that the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship is a huge dream of mine. There's been so many guys I looked up to - Pegasus Kid, Owen Hart, Liger, Prince Devitt, Kota Ibushi... the best of the best have held that belt.

I'm not going to go fight the best guys in the world without getting championship fights or championship money; it makes no sense.

Normally the teams that are in the NFC and AFC championship games are the teams that are going to be right there in the forefront as the season begins.

I'm so happy to be here and I want to bring championship football back to the University of Northern Colorado.

For nostalgia, I like to play Merion - I was fortunate enough to win the U.S. Open there.

What I learned from that loss, and also another loss that I'm going to talk about later, was that when you're there, it's not good enough to be there, when you're there, you better walk away with that ring.

Winning a championship in Milwaukee, it's not about my other business. It's about bringing the notoriety to a great city.

I have a couple of rules. Number one, get competitive. Number two, win a game. Number three, win two games in a row. Number four, win a championship.

For me, the goals were not important, but instead to lift some silverware at the end of the season. That is the objective for a footballer.

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I'm not a big sports fan.

I have short goals - to get better every day, to help my teammates every day - but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It's all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing.

It's a different thing when you play on a team that has to win, that doesn't consider it a good year unless you win the championship.

That's the only difference in Formula E from other championships - it's more unpredictable.

I went through ups and downs as a young player dealing with criticism and things of that nature. To finally win that first NBA championship, it was definitely a relief of a lot of pressure and frustration we dealt with as a team. It was great to bring a championship to the city of Chicago.

Every time that I've won a championship I've looked at my guys around me and looked at their work ethic and said 'You know what, I'm going to win it this year. I feel that way now.

In 83 I thought we were going to go all the way. We had Roy Smalley, and Steve King, and good players.

I'm not saying Brad Stevens should not be getting praise for the job that he's done, because I feel like he's done an outstanding job. I'm just saying the amount of praise he's getting, you'd think he won a championship or two. They don't give Steve Kerr that much love. Come on.

You don't forget any time you play for a championship and you don't win it. It's just something that sticks with you.