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I want to play for a championship team. I want to win a championship. -- Richard Jefferson
Before we can talk about a championship, we have to practice like a championship team. -- Mike Singletary
I'm 31 years old and I want to be part of a championship team before my career is over. -- Mats Sundin
I'm competitive. I'd love another chance to be part of a Stanley Cup championship team. That'd be awesome. -- Ed Belfour
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'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson. -- Oscar Robertson
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
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
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
As I and the rest of my Pittsburgh Steelers teammates prepared that week in late December 1974, we knew one thing: The road to the Super Bowl in the AFC went through Oakland. To achieve your dreams as a team, you had to slay the Oakland Raiders. They were the barometer of what it took to be a championship team. -- Joe Greene
Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards. -- Pat Riley
Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion. -- Magic Johnson
Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice. -- Bobby Knight
If you have talent with teamwork, you've got a chance to be a championship team. -- Mike Krzyzewski
If I get an opportunity to play for a championship team, I'm going to go hunting for that. I have no loyalty. -- Richard Jefferson
I really believe in setting goals, no matter what it is: whether it's losing five pounds or making the world championship team. -- Dara Torres
It's not about rugby, it's about young men. It's not about building a championship team, it's about building championship boys. Boys who will be forever strong. -- Larry Gelwix
When you're trying to build or change a culture, what do you do? I always say to take players from state championship teams because they only know one thing -- winning. -- John Calipari
To be a part of a championship team, I'm excited... This is the closest I've ever been to a championship. I'm looking forward to the challenge of helping this team repeat. -- Michael Finley
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
I'm not trying to get back on a team, but I have tried to stay in shape just in case a team needs a point guard. A championship team. I wouldn't go to any other team. -- Tim Hardaway
Usually a championship team is built on a strong defense. That is something you can bring to every game. A great attack is always going to be inconsistent - at least on the scoreboard - that's the nature of the game. -- Anson Dorrance
I am looking forward to continue my career in Orange & Blue and to work with Phil Jackson, a champion who builds championship teams. Madison Square Garden is the mecca of basketball and I am surrounded by the greatest fans in the world. -- Carmelo Anthony
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
Practice is important. The regular season is important. Your meetings are important. Your walk-through is important. Everything is important. You want to be a championship team, there's a price to pay. And that's what you have to do. There's no shortcuts. You can't shortcut your way to success. -- Tom Thibodeau
The Mets have shied away from that iconic club because they don't want the current one exposed to that hard-partying culture which, while well-documented, has also been somewhat exaggerated at times. The guys from that championship team are older and more mature now and can warn the current Mets about some of the pitfalls of fame. -- Mookie Wilson
Championship teams are built on being prepared, playing unselfishly and being held accountable -- Jason Kidd
Do you want to choose winning over standing out? It's a choice every player on every championship team has to do -- Doc Rivers
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
The support this city and our fans have shown the Grizzlies made my decision to stay in Memphis an easy one. Memphis deserves a championship team, and I am committed to that. -- Jerry West
As a sophomore, I wanted to play varsity in three sports. And I accomplished that. It was a great feat that year, and something I held special. I wanted to bring a championship team to Oceanside High School, and it happened. It was a great year that I will never forget. -- Junior Seau
In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way. -- John Thorn
I think you can get too focused on the championship and forget how rewarding it is to be part of a team. -- Steve Nash
Having different people come together and be on a team and win a world championship is literally, I think, the definition of being American. -- Abby Wambach
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
A team championship doesn't happen because three people score 10s, it happens because all the guys score well. In my opinion, everyone deserved 10s, we're all 10s on this team. -- Mitch Gaylord
My goals are for the U.S. team to get to the second round of the World Cup and to win a championship here in the U.S. with my club team the Columbus Crew. -- Brian McBride
Some other people are very lucky and always get in to the very best teams at the very best times and therefore go out and score lots of championship points and be in with a chance of the championship. -- David Leslie
That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team. -- Warren Moon
A lot of people talk about the Fab Five, and they were wonderful, one of the best teams you'll ever see in college basketball. But the '89 team is the best one to ever play at Michigan in my opinion because they won the national championship. Winning a championship is winning a championship. -- Trey Burke
Most coaches would consider leading a team to an Olympic gold medal a capper for a pretty good year. The same goes for winning an NCAA national championship. Or a FIBA world championship. Mike Krzyzewski, head coach of the Duke Blue Devils and Team USA, led teams to each of these honors... within about 24 months. -- Don Yaeger
A team doesn't win the championship if its players are working from different agendas. -- John C. Maxwell
A losing football team looks at excuses. A championship football team looks at solutions. -- Jimmie Johnson
Parents would rather have their son get all-state than his team win the state championship. -- Don Meyer
Allen Iverson is a ball hog. You will never win a championship with him on your team. -- Carmelo Anthony
For us to be the team that got him that historic 10th championship is special for us. -- Kobe Bryant
I want to win a championship. I can't come on this team and demand to be a starter. -- LaDainian Tomlinson
Any team that does not win it's conference championship game should not play in the BCS title game -- Nick Saban
I want to be on that team that wins the world championship here in Chicago and sees the city go crazy. -- Derrek Lee
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
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
I want to win some Super Bowls, and so thats really my focus, to do whatever I have to do to lead this team to a championship, -- Kurt Warner

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