Championship Quotes - Page 3

• If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart.

  Chris Evert

  Heart, Tennis, Champion

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• We must respect the rights and properties of our fellowman. And then learn to play the game of life, as well as the game of athletics, according to the rules of society. If you can take that and put it into practice in the community in which you live, then, to me you have won the greatest championship.

  Jesse Owens

  Games, Play, Rights

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• Champions know that success is inevitable, that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it.

  Michael J. Gelb

  Failure, Exercise, Champion

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• In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it - to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares!

  Zac Efron

  Inspirational, Basketball, Team

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• The 1984 European Championships were held in France and that was something important. I felt on form then, even though I was practically always injured at all the World Cups. It's a great memory. But in any case, the past is past.

  Michel Patini

  Memories, Past, Important

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• Though I'd have to say it was generally the guys in Detroit, as a group, that won the two Championships. They were terrific and I always look back very fondly.

  Chuck Daly

  Sports, Two, Guy

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• I'm trying to let winning the world championships settle in right now before I begin training again shortly. During the skating season, we skate on average 20 kilometres a day. On top of that, we're riding a lot and lifting a lot of weights.

  Clara Hughes

  Winning, Average, Training

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• My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'.

  Haile Gebrselassie

  Sports, Fun, Father

  Interview with Jim White, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2002.

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• The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.

  Kurtis Blow

  Two, Hip Hop, World

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• I began playing in the Pacific Coast Indoor Tennis Championships.

  Tracy Austin

  Tennis, Coast, Pacific

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• There's a lot of history in Boston and a lot of history, obviously, in New York with all the championships.

  Rafael Palmeiro

  New York, Boston

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• No matter how much you've won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no matter how many Super Bowls, you're not winning now, so you stink.

  Bill Parcells

  Sports, Winning, Games

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• The major championships have always been a special focus in my career and, as a professional, I think Augusta is where I need to be.

  Tiger Woods

  Thinking, Careers, Focus

  "Tiger Woods to return to golf at Masters". www.cnn.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Actually, the Kentucky moment was better than winning the two National Championships, because it was the epitome of what I try to get from a team in a crisis situation.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Team, Winning, Two

  American Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• We had a party with the rest of the skaters in our trailer and then the next day we were off to see Jimmy Carter. And then we had the World Championships the next weekend, so not a lot of chance to catch up.

  Eric Heiden

  Party, Weekend, Next Day

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• Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Teamwork, Coward

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• I am not an expert in this field but I do try to keep up to date with the Bundesliga. And I do follow World Cups and European Championships more closely.

  Angela Merkel

  Europe, Trying, Experts

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I fancy our chances at the European Championships.

  Frank Lampard

  Sports, Europe, Fancy

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• Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

  John Wooden

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Fellowship of Christian Athletes, John Wooden (2010). “The Greatest Coach Ever: Timeless Wisdom and Insights of John Wooden”, p.101, Gospel Light Publications

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• There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Motivation, Attitude

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• I want to be just like Steph when I grow up.

  Andre Iguodala

  Growing Up, Nba Championships, Want

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• Those opportunities to play in championship games are few and far between

  Jack Youngblood

  Opportunity, Games, Play

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• I think this can be a championship team. But we do have to take it one game at a time. You can't look at the end of the road before you get the next foot in.

  Michael Strahan

  Sports, Team, Thinking

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  From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

  Arthur Ashe

  Inspirational, Kindness, Teaching

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• We just want to win. That's the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content with one championship or a little bit of success, but we don't really reflect on what we've done in the past. We focus on the present.

  Derek Jeter

  Success, Winning, Past

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