Championship Quotes - Page 22

• Just reading about the various opinions concerning the conduct of the recent championship matches convinces me that the only thing to which two chessplayers could agree is that a third one is over-rated.

  Arpad Elo

  Reading, Two, Chess

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• In 1948, I began coaching basketball at UCLA. Each hour of practice we worked very hard. Each day we worked very hard. Each week we worked very hard. Each season we worked very hard. Four fourteen years we worked very hard and didn't win a national championship. However, a national championship was won in the fifteenth year. Another in the sixteenth. And eight more in the following ten years.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Winning, Eight

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• I want to win a championship. I can't come on this team and demand to be a starter.

  LaDainian Tomlinson

  Team, Winning, Nfl

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• Winning the world championship in '66 was really the pinnacle of the whole thing, because to win a championship with an Australian made engine was a fantastic feather in our cap.

  Jack Brabham

  Sports, Winning, World

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• I've always been proud to represent my country, whether it be World Cups, European Championships or just friendly games, I've always been a proud person, I'm very patriotic.

  David Beckham

  Country, Patriotic, Games

  "David Beckham interview - Why I'm not ready to finish playing yet". Interview with Paul Vercammen, www.totalfootballmag.com.

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• I wouldn't feel good about it at all. At the end of the day I'm here to win a team prize, and that's to win a championship, not an individual prize.

  LeBron James

  Team, Winning, Nba

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• I've been blessed with an amazing group of guys in my first year, I can't believe how lucky I am.

  Steve Kerr

  Believe, Nba Championships, Lucky

  "NBA Finals MVP Andre Iguodala Thanks God for Golden State Warriors Win; Says Team Is 'Full of Believers'" by Christine Thomasos, www.christianpost.com. June 17, 2015.

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• It just feels good to say we're the best team in the world, with the best player in the world.

  Klay Thompson

  Team, Player, Nba Championships

  "Game Quotes: Cavaliers vs. Golden State Warriors - June 16". www.nba.com. June 17, 2015.

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• Tonight we had our chances but we ran out of talent.

  LeBron James

  Nba Championships, Tonight, Chance

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• It's all about winning. Stats really don't matter, I mean, guys have great series and all that, and people take notice and take their place in history with those stats and all that stuff. But at the end of the day, it's all about winning and what you can do to help your team get to that point.

  Stephen Curry

  Team, Mean, Winning

  "Game Quotes: Cavaliers vs. Golden State Warriors - June 16". www.nba.com. June 17, 2015.

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• I didn't think we'd get to this point that we're at now, but I was ready to lead If we got to this point.

  LeBron James

  Thinking, Nba Championships, Ready

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• The group of guys I have... They are playing off straight motivation.

  LeBron James

  Motivation, Nba Championships, Guy

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• If I could have gave more, I would have done it. I gave everything I had

  LeBron James

  Nba Championships, Done, If I Could

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• We have to continue at a high level and make them take tough shots.

  LeBron James

  Nba Championships, Levels, Tough

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• I'm just feeling like it was meant to be. What can I say? The birth of my son, and in the first year of his life, we won a Super Bowl Championship.

  Drew Brees

  Football, Inspiration, Son

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• I'm the head coach at LSU. I will be the head coach at LSU. I have no interest in talking to anybody else. I got a championship game to play, and I'm excited for the opportunity of my damn strong football team to play in it. Please ask me after. I'm busy. Thank you very much. Have a great day!

  Les Miles

  Football, Strong, Team

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• Capablanca used to talk calmly and moderately about everything. However, when our conversation turned to the problems of the battle for the world championship, in front of me was a quite different person: an enraged lion, although with the fervour typical only of a southerner, with his temperamental patter, which made it hard to follow the torrent of his indignant exclamations and words.

  Alexander Koblencs

  Battle, Typical, Different

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• We ran out of talent tonight. The guys played as hard as they could, as long as we could.

  LeBron James

  Nba Championships, Long, Guy

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• If you asked everybody in a quiet room what they think, they'd say, 'What does the NCAA do really well? We run championships really well.' And yet we have this thing we don't get involved in.

  Christopher R. Hill

  Running, Thinking, Ncaa

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• Everything is sore right now. Everything. I look like I'm doing okay but I can't wait to get home.

  LeBron James

  Home, Nba Championships, Waiting

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• Beautiful fans of Oklahoma City, I can’t say enough about you guys. All the support you give our team. The home-court advantage we have is the best I’ve ever seen. We disappoint you sometimes, but we try our best every single night to win for you guys. And we want to win a championship for you guys.

  Kevin Durant

  Beautiful, Team, Home

  Kevin Durant's MVP Acceptance Speech, newsok.com. May 13, 2014.

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• This was an unbelievable experience.

  Stephen Curry

  Nba Championships, Unbelievable

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• We've been able to handle any team that you guys put in front of us. We've had confidence since day one. ... We feel like any team we play against, we've got what it takes to put ourselves in a position to win.

  Tristan Thompson

  Team, Winning, Nba Championships

  "Cleveland Cavaliers' Tristan Thompson From Podium After Game 3: Matthew Dellavedova 'playing Unbelievable Basketball'". Interview with Mark Kern, www.cleveland.com. June 10, 2015.

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• I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing up. Now that I'm an old, old veteran-age 29-I do things a lot differently. I don't go to the gentlemen's clubs anymore. I had to slow that down.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Growing Up, Thinking

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• We just don't give in. If you can bend and not break, you always got a chance.

  David Blatt

  Nba Championships, Giving, Chance

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