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Those opportunities to play in championship games are few and far between. -- Jack Youngblood
Those opportunities to play in championship games are few and far between -- Jack Youngblood
Anyone who doesn't win their conference has no business playing in the national championship game. -- Nick Saban
Any team that does not win it's conference championship game should not play in the BCS title game -- Nick Saban
When Paul Brown talked contract, the championship game was part of it. We took the championship game for granted. -- Otto Graham
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
As soon as I started to realize that I could make a living playing professional soccer, I went to that place where I could torture myself because I knew it would make me better for the championship game. -- Abby Wambach
Every game's a championship game. When we focus that way, get prepared that way-that this is it, you know, this is the last one, the biggest one-you get ready, you get amped up, you get that laser focus and you're ready to play. -- Russell Wilson
In 1981, when I went down to visit Georgia Tech, I watched Michael Jordan play and literally get ridiculed for taking a jump shot in the championship game that went off the backboard, and they won. People are forgetting that Michael was just one of the players when they went to the Dream Team. -- John Salley
We're not going to do anything different for this game since we're not treating this game any different than another game. Every game is a championship game for us, so we'll treat this one, the last one and the next one exactly the same. And that goes for our practices leading up to it as well. -- Pete Carroll
Everybody was ready to put Denver and Indianapolis in the championship game. We're the same team that went 15-1 last year and made it to the championship game. We're coming from a different perspective now, being on the road playing two tough road games. We all believed in one another, even if no one else did. -- Hines Ward
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
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 '80s, when Gretzky came to the World Championships in the second or third game, you'd see this guy skating circles around the other ones. Unbelievable. -- Hasso Plattner
I am proud of my family. I am proud of my Duke championships and all my Duke teammates. And, I am proud I never lost a game against the Fab Five. -- Grant Hill
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
It will be a hard game if you think about winning a championship. We need to think about our own game at the moment and focus on getting good results especially over the Christmas period. -- Dennis Bergkamp
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
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
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
I don't care how many championships you've won or how many records you've broken - if you've had a hand in pushing forward not only a game but women in sport's movement, then I think that's pretty darn good. -- Abby Wambach
I won at every level - all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I've won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won't be fulfilled until I win at the highest level. -- LeBron James
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
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
When my father bid $5,000 for the 1962 Championship Game, that was a huge amount. It was double the bid the year before. Pete Rozelle was flabbergasted. Who was this guy who was willing to spend so much money on what seemed like relatively worthless rights to the NFL Championship Game? -- Steve Sabol
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
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
In those years, it was easier to win the Soviet Championship than a game against 'Iron Tigran'. -- Lev Polugaevsky
Some of us are fortunate enough to play championship golf, but this isn't essential in the enjoyment of the game. -- Babe Didrikson Zaharias
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 have high expectations for myself. I'm not out there playing the game just to be playing it. I want to win a championship. -- Albert Belle
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 always get up for every game, but this game is especially big. It's a do-or-die thing. This could be (decide) whoever wins the regular-season championship. -- Rajon Rondo
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There's nothing easy about winning a game in the National Football League, let alone winning a championship, things that we've done in the past. However, that's in the past. -- Rodney Harrison

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