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Liverpool have won everything but never a World Championship. I am sure in the future they will once again make the effort to win the tournament. They have had good rhythm in the Premier League this season. -- Sepp Blatter
If you win a National Championship, or you win two, people think you have not only seen the Holy Grail, but you've embraced it. Basically, I do what a lot of people do, but I've been able to win. -- Mike Krzyzewski
The heartbeat of a football team is the quarterback position and I think everyone who has any intelligence about the game understands you must have consistency at that position to be a championship team. -- Ron Jaworski
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
I've been a very lucky guy. I played on championship teams. I played for Canada. I've won some awards and I'm very proud of those accomplishments. But I don't think there's anything greater than to come home and to be recognized at home. This is the pinnacle. -- Bobby Orr
Each championship is unique and special. -- Trish Stratus
Its Not a Belt, its a Championship Title! -- CM Punk
What does perfection look like to me? Championship rings -- Kobe Bryant
Roddy how many times have you won a World Championship? -- Randy Orton
The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves. -- Mike Ditka
The fact that I am still alive after 100,000 laps is my championship. -- Jacky Ickx
Those opportunities to play in championship games are few and far between -- Jack Youngblood
Actually, Magic and the Lakers beat Philadelphia for Magic's first NBA Championship. -- Oscar Robertson
If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart. -- Chris Evert
It's easier to win the National Championship than the SEC, ask Nick Saban. -- Steve Spurrier
Two beautiful women crashing and burning for the sake of the Women's Championship!!! -- Jim Ross
Championship teams are built on being prepared, playing unselfishly and being held accountable -- Jason Kidd
Carlsen will be ridiculously difficult to play against. (on the 2013 World Championship match) -- Viswanathan Anand
Clinching the [County] Championship is a strange sensation... There's more atmosphere in a doctor's waiting room -- Simon Hughes
To play a match for the World Championship is the cherished dream of every chess player. -- David Bronstein
In those years, it was easier to win the Soviet Championship than a game against 'Iron Tigran'. -- Lev Polugaevsky
David Nugent tore up the Championship but he's gone to Portsmouth and he's a fish up a tree -- Paul Merson
You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round. -- James J. Corbett
I won player of the year and players' player, two cups and two championship medals, had a great time. -- Paul Gascoigne
Until you announce me as the #1 contender for the WWE Championship, I suggest you watch me make snow angels. -- CM Punk
Becoming the first Canadian male to win a Major Championship, especially being the Masters, was a dream come true. -- Mike Weir
To win the Championship in the first year will be hard. We need time to become competitive and win races -- Valentino Rossi
When we hold a World Championship for a particular sport, we invite teams from other countries to play as well. -- John Cleese
Any time you play in a USGA Championship, if you don't drive the ball on the fairway, you're dead. You're done. -- Tom Watson
My proudest moments are beating Ferrari for the World Championship in 1965, and working with Ford to win Le Mans in 1966 and 1967. -- Carroll Shelby
I want to qualify for the Tour Championship. Being a Georgia Tech grad, playing at East Lake would feel like home. -- Matt Kuchar
Championships are not won on the night of a big event, but years before by athletes who commit themselves daily to championship principles -- Dick Devenzio
I've got a Championship game to play and I'm excited about the opportunity of my damn strong football team to play in it. -- Les Miles
I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems. -- Oksana Baiul
I do not think I could go on living unless I felt that one day I might win the Open Championship at St. Andrews. -- Ben Crenshaw
Everyone said, 'Emil, you are a fool!' But when I first won the European Championship, they said: 'Emil, you are a genius!' -- Emil Zatopek
You can take a sidewards step in the Premier League, go to a team in the Championship or come to a team in League One. -- Alan Smith
When the race to develop becomes more furious as the Championship progresses, the racing will get better too, improving the entire experience for the fans. -- Sam Bird
17 seconds from Game 7, or from Championship number 6,Jordan, open, Chicago with the lead. Time out Utah, 5.2 seconds left, Michael Jordan running on fumes with 45 points. -- Bob Costas
I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition. -- Olga Korbut
Realistically, we could aim for the top three in the constructors championship. Realistically, we could look at winning more races. Three race wins would be very satisfying. -- Damon Hill
From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee, my intense training with my dad was always to credit. -- Candace Parker
In a country that never wins anything: in Canada, if one of our athletes so much as makes the final in a World Championship, we declare a national holiday. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt. -- Jack Wagner
In the current FIDE World Championship, on the knock-out system, weaker players have good chances. Those, who in a long match would practically have no chance, here may creep through. -- Vladimir Kramnik
Winning teams at the NBA level, the college level, and the high school level all play team basketball. Championship teams have five players on the same page at all times. -- Hubie Brown
There is not that many players that really can take over games, signed Candace Parker, I really felt like at that time that a National Championship was certainly in reach. -- Pat Summitt
My time in the World Rally Championship has been a useful stage in my career, but I can't deny the fact that my hunger for F1 has recently become overwhelming. -- Kimi Raikkonen
The team which I led to the 1992 European Championship Finals is the only one in the history of the entire competition to have won every single one of its qualifying matches. -- Michel Patini
My pat line about the Cubs and payroll is that the amount of merchandise the Cubs would sell off a world series championship would more than cover for a big payroll. -- Billy Corgan
Winning the Championship is like taking a 26-year ball and chain from around our legs. Now we can go forward, and hopefully dominate English football for the next 10 years, like Liverpool did. -- Bryan Robson
We are a global sport. I mean, golf is obviously played all around the world. But when you have your National Championship, of course, everybody in America is rooting for an American. -- Paula Creamer
I'm helpless in post-round, hole-by-hole interviews. I can't take you through most of the holes of winning the Players Championship, the U.S. Amateur or Ryder Cup matches. It's like golf amnesia. -- Matt Kuchar
It must be the PGA Championship if it's August and you can sit down and talk to the heat or reach inside your shirt, where it's 110 degrees, and grab handfuls of humidity. -- Dan Jenkins
I vowed I would do everything I could to stop the Isle of Man counting towards the World Championship. And it was stopped, so they love me in the Isle of Man. -- Barry Sheene
The PGA Championship, last of the majors each year, might well be accustomed to having fun poked at it by the print press for being mired in August, but this isn't fair. -- Dan Jenkins
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
I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China. -- Jet Li
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
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On the other hand, chess is a mass sport now and for chess organisers shorter time control is obviously more attractive. But I think that this control does not suit World Championship matches. -- Boris Spassky
I watched the Olympics as a kid. It would be fun to try to win a medal. If I could swap Olympic gold for a US PGA Championship? I'd take the Major every time. -- Luke Donald
Playing black, I put great stake in the Ruy Lopez: I liked it, feel it, and understand it; in matches with Hjartarson and Timman it served me well. - on preparing for World Championship versus Garry Kasparov -- Anatoly Karpov
I never paid, or intended to pay, $10,000, or any amount of money, to any player for knocking Kurt Warner, Brett Favre or any other player out of the 2009 Divisional playoff game, 2010 NFC Championship Game or any other game. -- Jonathan Vilma
My biggest frustration with the Heisman is it's become the MVP of the national champion, or a team going to the National Championship game. That's what it's turned into. If you're not undefeated, you're out of the running. -- Doug Flutie
Ferrari's only objective is to be at the top, in other words, to compete for the World Championship. That's our right. Winning is another matter. It wouldn't be a disgrace to come in second after a tough fight. -- Michael Schumacher
I love watching 'UFC' - Ultimate Fighting Championship - I don't know why, because I'm more of a coward than a fighter, but I seem to be very drawn to these blokes actually smashing each other to bits. -- Marc Warren
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
People always say it's a shame someone as talented as Ryan Giggs or George Best before him never played in a World Cup or European Championship and I don't want my name to be added to that list. -- Barry Ferguson
Pressure is working down the pit. Pressure is having no work at all. Pressure is trying to escape relegation on 50 shillings a week. Pressure is not the European Cup or the Championship or the Cup Final. That's the reward. -- Bill Shankly
When we won the league championship, all the married guys on the club had to thank their wives for putting up with all the stress and strain all season. I had to thank all the single broads in New York. -- Joe Namath
I have a special feeling for Blue Hills CC, where I won perhaps the most important tournament of my life when I was 14 - the Kansas City Match Play Championship. It gave me a dream of becoming a professional golfer. -- Tom Watson
I would love to end my European campaign with the World Championship stripes on my back. But everything else that I have in my mind right now is to continue working with and having my little camps for women cyclists. -- Kristin Armstrong
When I saw that Wrestlemania had broken an indoor attendance record, I just walked into a wrestling office, Championship Wrestling in Florida, during the offseason, and they introduced me to Hiro Matsuda, who became my mentor... and the rest is history! -- Lex Luger
Some people asked me if it was going to be a downer to come back and play on a college team after playing on a world championship team, and I don't think they understand what it is like to play here. -- Lorrie Fair
I've been in the league 12 years. To sit on the bench and complain about the way things were, that doesn't get anything done. I don't know. I'm playing for a championship and trying to make the playoffs. My effort has never changed. -- Chris Webber
My goal had been to win a championship, work toward the Hall of Fame, have my jersey retired by the team and I'd go in as a lifelong New York Giant, but I'm now resigned to the fact that this won't happen. -- Michael Strahan
I'm not chasing championships. Championship's chasing us. I'm not doing that. I want my players to be better people once they leave campus because this is a life lesson. This is more than basketball. This is life lessons that we're trying to teach. -- Kevin Ollie
I once heard that Paul Seymour said as much as winning an NBA Championship, he'd like to see the Celtics lose a game after Auerbach brought out the cigar so he could go up to Arnold and stuff the cigar in his face. -- Bob Cousy
We won the European Championship last September and now the world title. That is some year for French beach soccer! Now comes the hard part. We have to keep improving and that's difficult because it's tough to do better than winning a world title. -- Eric Cantona
It was my proudest moment as a manager when England drew 0-0 with Italy in Rome to qualify for the World Cup finals. Fifteen years later, the stakes are equally high for both countries as they go head-to-head for a semi-final place at the European Championship. -- Glenn Hoddle
We are the best team of the tournament and deserved the title but luck did not favour us. I think the future of this team is good. If we play more friendly matches and target the SAFF Championship, I think this team can deliver that title. -- Mamunul Islam
That's one of the great oddities of baseball: Success is relative. A hitter who fails 70 percent of the time at the plate is a potential member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and many World Championship teams lose more than 70 games during their title-winning seasons. -- Don Yaeger
Bill Russell is one of the great names in basketball, an all-American... and the only athlete to ever win an NCAA Championship, an Olympic Gold Medal, and a professional championship all in the same year-1956...But Bill Russell had this one problem: He threw up before every game. -- John Eliot
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
Getting hurt and watching Tom Brady take over and beginning what's been just a spectacular run of his, and to come back and play in the AFC Championship Game against the Steelers in Pittsburgh, and help us win that game, is a memory that stands out very clearly. -- Drew Bledsoe
We felt like when we went into last year we had a pretty good chance to win the championship from the previous year with the fall we put together. We've got the same everything now, so I think we can come back and be as strong this year. -- Sterling Marlin
I've had a couple of years where injuries have not let me develop in the way I wanted. When I was 21, after the European Championship, I had more injuries. Everything has been less continuous and it has cost me more progress. Continuity is what got me where I am. -- Cesc Fabregas
A half marathon is a good way to have a bit of fun and race against those girls and learn a bit more about them.The world half marathon is a world championship at the end of the day and it's important. I've win it twice and it's a quality event. -- Paula Radcliffe
Once you win a National Championship, how do you do that again? How do you get the passion to do that again? We won it again right away, the next year. A lot of it had to do with the fact that I didn't give myself an opportunity to enjoy the first one. -- Mike Krzyzewski
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Personally I just want to win a championship. -- Allen Iverson
If you've ever won a championship, then that's all you're interested in doing. -- Bill Parcells
I don't think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship. -- Kobe Bryant
Before we can talk about a championship, we have to practice like a championship team. -- Mike Singletary
Losing Michael Jackson is a handicap. It's the Lakers trying to win a championship without Kobe Bryant. -- Tito Jackson
When you win a championship, it is a great feeling, and you really don't want that feeling to go away. -- Paul Pierce
That's the only reason I'm here. I don't need to play the game for any other reason than to win a championship. -- Drew Bledsoe
In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race. -- Haile Gebrselassie
I think the players win the championship, and the organization has something to do with it, don't get me wrong. But don't try to put the organization above the players. -- Michael Jordan
When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country. -- Bobby Fischer
One thing about championship teams is that they're resilient. No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity. -- Nick Saban
Sugar Ray Robinson was at the top of the boxing world during the 1950's when it seemed that he would either win or lose the championship about every three or four months. -- Dick Schaap
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Somebody asked me - you know, how come it took you so long to win a national championship? And I said, 'I'm a slow learner; but you notice when I learn something, I have it down pretty good.' -- John Wooden
Well, I mean, to me, I think my ultimate - my ultimate goal is winning championships and - and I understand that me going down as one of the greats will not happen until I, you know, win a championship. -- LeBron James
You've got to coach worrying about your entire team: whether that gets you a championship or whether that gets you fired. I think it allows you to coach free. You're coaching with freedom because you know you're doing what you think is right. -- Doc Rivers
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
I went to state in track, won the girls' city championship, and did well in volleyball. I was a varsity cheerleader. So you know, shoot, I've got a couple of letters and things! Last I counted, I think there were eight in my mama's house. -- Vivica A. Fox
I've been many times to Dubai and the U.A.E., and I have friends that live there. It would be exciting to stage world heavyweight championship fights in the Arab world. It's something Muhammad Ali achieved when he fought in Zaire or the Philippines. It's absolutely exciting to fight in countries where you have never fought. -- Wladimir Klitschko
But I was always a bit of a gypsy, anyway. I spent five years at Oklahoma State, five years at Miami and moved on after winning the national championship, and five years with the Cowboys. So, I was ready to move on. We won back-to-back Super Bowls, and I felt that I accomplished what I wanted to accomplish. -- Jimmy Johnson
The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud. -- Bob Uecker
Every championship, by definition, is historic. -- George Vecsey
Sometimes you only get to win one championship. -- Leonard Gardner
I won the city scoring championship as a senior. -- Bob Cousy
The two championship years were that significant for me. -- Chuck Daly
The only thing championship about Wimbledon is its prestige. -- John McEnroe
I don't build championship teams, I build championship boys. -- Larry Gelwix
Even championship-winning teams don't play well all the time. -- Teddy Sheringham
The only thing 'championship' about Wimbledon is its prestige. -- John McEnroe

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