Championship Quotes - Page 21

• Coming back in that AFC Championship Game against the Steelers, that was a poignant moment for me for a lot of reasons - the magnitude of the game and having not been able to play for quite a while and to be able to get on the field for that game. That one stands out.

  Drew Bledsoe

  Games, Play, Able

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• My only drive was to be the best dancer in the world, but I never won the world championship.

  Anton du Beke

  Dancer, World, Being The Best

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• The chess world is obligated to organize a match between the champion of the world and the winner of this Carlsbad tournament - indeed, this is a moral obligation. If the world of chess should remain deaf to its obligation, on the other hand, it would amount to an absolutely unforgivable omission, carrying with it a heavy burden of guilt.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Omission, Hands, Champion

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• I am pleased that in a match for the World Championship I was able to conduct a game in the style of Akiba Rubinstein, where the entire strategic course was maintained from the first to the last move.

  Boris Gelfand

  Moving, Games, Style

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• Champions are not generated from the championship. Champion is generated from something they have in them, desires, dreams, and visions.

  Muhammad Ali

  Dream, Champion, Vision

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• A championship contender in the early twentieth century needed charisma and a knack for cultivating sponsorship, and Rubinstein was the epitome of the shy and unsocial chess player. Now matter how great his chess skills, he lacked the people skills to be a self-promoter and fund-raiser.

  Garry Kasparov

  Success, Player, Self

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• Looking at the championship-winning quarterbacks, Edwards remembered their particular talents: Steve Young: Here's a guy that is really a talent. He's the best athlete we ever had. He could run, he developed into a good thrower. He's smart. He's intense. He could make it in the movies. Really, he's got it all. He was coachable, but he had his own ideas. He never let up, not even in practice. I'd take Steve Young every year.

  LaVell Edwards

  Running, Smart, Athlete

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• What does perfection look like to me? Championship rings

  Kobe Bryant

  Perfection, Doe, Looks

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• It's still one of the proudest moments in my career boxing at Madison Square Garden. Some fighters who have won titles and championships have never boxed at Madison Square Garden. For a little kid just off a council estate to do it was a dream come true.

  Ricky Hatton

  Dream, Motivation, Kids

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• Give me about 10 years, I'm going to run for President. If I can squeeze in an NBA championship before that, I'll do it.

  Will Smith

  Running, Nba Championships, Years

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• I wanted to be like Nolan Ryan. I didn't want to be like Pete Gray...And I don't want kids to be like me because I have one hand. I want kids to be like Jim Abbott because he's a baseball pitcher at Michigan and he won the Big Ten Championship game, and not because I can field a bunt and throw to first.

  Jim Abbott

  Baseball, Kids, Hands

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• Growing up I wasn't the richest, but I had a rich family in spirit. Standing here with 19 championships is something I never thought would happen. I went on a court just with a ball and a racket and with a hope.

  Serena Williams

  Growing Up, Balls, Rich Family

  "Serena Williams extends run over Maria Sharapova to win Australian Open" by Kevin Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2015.

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• I love the game - and I hate the Russians because they've almost ruined it. They only risk the title when they have to, every three years. They play for draws with each other but play to win against the Western masters. Draws make for dull chess, wins make for fighting chess.

  Bobby Fischer

  Hate, Fighting, Winning

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• The system set up by F.I.D.E. ... Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion... The Russians arranged it that way.

  Bobby Fischer

  Champion, World, Chess

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• ... in itself the title of world champion does not give any significicant advantages, if it is not acknowledged by the entire chess world, and a champion who does not have the chess world behind him is, in my view, a laughing-stock.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Views, Giving, Laughing

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• It's a long, hard, difficult process to make it to a national championship.

  Hale Irwin

  Long, Process, Difficult

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• If it weren't for a new rule that came into being, we'd have played three years in a row in the championship game.

  Al Davis

  Years, Games, Nfl

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• It's not about being a head coach, I'd rather be a DC at Auburn and win championships.

  Will Muschamp

  Winning, Auburn, Coaches

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• Every punch I threw with bad intentions to a vital area...I aimed for his ear...I wanted to bust his eardrum...Every punch had bad intentions...My record will last for immortality, It'll never be broken...I want to live forever...I refuse to lose...I would have to be carried out dead to lose...I was coming to destroy and win the Heavyweight Championship of the World, which I done.

  Mike Tyson

  Winning, Broken, Boxing

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• This is everything to me. If I don't have this, I don't know what else I'll be doing. I personally have found where I belong. You can cut back to photos of me holding, uh, paper championships. That was truly my dream. This is what I was born to do. As far as walking away from all this to do something else, I don't..I just don't...I don't see the rationality.

  John Cena

  Dream, Cutting, Walking Away

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• I am very pleased with my synthetic golf green from Southwest Greens. It reacts like a championship golf green, so I can practice my short game whenever I'm at home. I couldn't believe that a synthetic green could be this perfect.

  Matteo Manassero

  Believe, Home, Golf

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• We don’t have to be superstars or win championships…. All we have to do is learn to rise to every occasion, give our best effort, and make those around us better as we do it.

  John Wooden

  Winning, Best Effort, Giving

  John Wooden, Jay Carty (2010). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)”, p.89, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When you're trying to build or change a culture, what do you do? I always say to take players from state championship teams because they only know one thing -- winning.

  John Calipari

  Team, Winning, Player

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• Each of us, if we would grow, must be committed to excellence. The championships, the money, the color; all of these things linger only in the memory. It is the spirit, the will to excel, the will to win; these are the things that endure.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Memories, Winning

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• Real talent doesn't always win championships, like real music doesn't always win Grammys.

  Drake

  Real, Winning, Talent

  "Drake Disses Macklemore At The ESPYS, Mocks His Music And Grammy Win" By Liat Kornowski, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2014.

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