Championship Quotes - Page 25

• Clinching the [County] Championship is a strange sensation... There's more atmosphere in a doctor's waiting room

  Simon Hughes

  Doctors, Waiting Rooms, Atmosphere

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• Rivalries don't necessarily mean races being close at major championships. I had a rivalry with Butch Reynolds for many years. I won all the races, but Butch was the world record holder before I came into the sport, he was extremely talented and he was the only other man running 43 seconds.

  Michael Johnson

  Sports, Running, Mean

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• I've been very fortunate to be involved in all the Super Bowls, to see some World Series, to cover heavyweight championship fights; I've been to the Olympics and seen every sporting event there is.

  Will McDonough

  Fighting, Heavyweights, World

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• As far as my sport is concerned, my mission is to make it as big as it deserves to be. We've been growing, it's just not as noticeable. The NCAA picked beach volleyball up to be a championship sport, and it was the fastest test sport that's been adopted. That's a really big deal for our sport because that just means the USA system is going to have a feeder system from the college system.

  Kerri Walsh

  Sports, Volleyball, Beach

  "37-year-old Olympian explains how she stays so dominant at an age when most athletes retire". Interview with Emmett Knowlton, www.businessinsider.com. March 1, 2016.

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• I think there's a lot of different ways to win. You've seen teams that win championships with a super-duper star like Kobe Bryant. Those championship teams with Michael Jordan certainly had a great, great player.

  Doug Collins

  Stars, Team, Thinking

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• I dream about winning a championship, where everybody is hooting and hollering for you. The whole world is drawn to the NBA Finals.

  Ray Allen

  Dream, Winning, Nba

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• It is my second visit to Korea since the International Junior Athletic Championships in 1992. Both then and now, I felt Korea is an interesting country and the people are very kind.

  Cathy Freeman

  Country, Korea, Interesting

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• There are many things I'm looking forward to in 2013, both personally and professionally. Plans for new restaurants in the U.S., including Eataly Chicago, are underway, and I'm gearing up for the 2013 Ironman world championships in Hawaii - if I'm lucky enough to get a spot!

  Joe Bastianich

  Chicago, Lucky, Hawaii

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• I'd like to win a championship for the Steelers and for myself to shove down Detroits throat.

  Bobby Layne

  Winning, Detroit, Steelers

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• Brazil is crazy about football. People, they wait for this moment, but this doesn't mean we are going to win the championship. That is the problem.

  Pele

  Football, Crazy, Mean

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• The Russians have held my title for ten years and they're going to be in for it when I win the Championship. They're going to have to wait and play under my conditions.

  Bobby Fischer

  Winning, Years, Play

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• Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.

  Bobby Knight

  Team, Practice, Want

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• Every fight is do or die for me. I've come too far to start over. I'm on a destiny trip right now. I'm racing towards that heavyweight world championship.

  Antonio Tarver

  Fighting, Destiny, Starting Over

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• There are 3 basic differences between we British and you Americans. One, we speak English, and you don't. Two, when we have a "World Championship", we invite teams from other nations. Three, when you meet the British head of State, you only have to get down on one knee.

  John Cleese

  Team, Two, Differences

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• I can't be No. 1 with an MVP trophy. I could be No. 1 with the championship ring and the championship trophy on my fireplace.

  Jeff Kent

  Mvp, Trophies, Fireplaces

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• I know the next level for me is to make my teammates better, to win a championship, and to where they have confidence that they can score 20 or 15 points a night and be consistent.

  Michael Redd

  Winning, Night, Next

  Interview with Victor Kelly, uk.ign.com. November 20, 2006.

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• I want to win championship. That's the think I enjoy most.

  Manu Ginobili

  Winning, Thinking, Want

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• You want to know why I am the perfect champion? Because you can take the strength of John Cena; the intelligence of Triple H; the desire of Cena; the athleticism of Triple H; the determination of Cena; the ruthlessness of Triple H... and if you combine these attributes into one person, you get Randy Orton. The only difference is that I have one thing that neither Cena nor Triple H has: the WWE Championship.

  Randy Orton

  Determination, Wwe, Differences

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• 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

  Manu Ginobili

  Team, Winning, Years

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• The reason I went to an all-boys Catholic school was because they had the best football team. We won the state championship my junior year. It was super-competitive. We lost in the semifinals my senior year, and it still haunts me.

  Theo Rossi

  Senior, Football, Team

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• That's the whole goal, to win the national championship. You can't have a legacy without one.

  Seimone Augustus

  Winning, Goal, Legacy

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• Winning an NBA championship is the biggest thing that can happen professionally because it's the top. But representing your country-with more than 30 million people cheering for you and then seeing you up there on the podium-it's hard to find any more words to put on that.

  Manu Ginobili

  Country, Cheer, Winning

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• In those years, it was easier to win the Soviet Championship than a game against 'Iron Tigran'.

  Lev Polugaevsky

  Winning, Iron, Years

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• My focus in 2010 was on just running fast races. My focus in 2011 was for winning at the World Championships. This year has been a combination of the two so we'll see what kind of time it brings.

  David Rudisha

  Running, Winning, Race

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• When you have five or six potential hall of famers on your team ... that's when you win penants and championships. The only thing you have to be concerned about is getting the ballplayers to bed on time.

  Joe DiMaggio

  Team, Winning, Bed

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