Championship Quotes

I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.

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.

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.

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.

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?

But I'm good to go through my contract with Childress, and my determination is to win races and try to win that other championship.

You don't even have to win a championship every year to draw the fans. You just have to show you're really trying.

To win the Championship in the first year will be hard. We need time to become competitive and win races.

Losing Michael Jackson is a handicap. It's the Lakers trying to win a championship without Kobe Bryant.

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.

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.

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.

Being happy is very important. We won our second championship last season and we have our entire team coming back to try and defend our title again. I'm very proud of that.

Before we can talk about a championship, we have to practice like a championship team.

I won player of the year and players' player, two cups and two championship medals, had a great time.

They were ridiculous times. After I won my world championship in 1976, I went to Japan.

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.

The one I was driving for at the time, Nissan, they pulled out after they won the championship, because it was costing millions of pounds to do a national championship and ok, that might be ok when you're doing an international championship, but not for a national one.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I'm 31 years old and I want to be part of a championship team before my career is over.

There are far more important things in life than making a putt or missing a putt or winning a championship or losing a championship.

The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.

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.

I got to experience a world championship with some great teammates.

If somebody asks me whether I'd rather sink the winning putt in the Ryder Cup or win a major, it's the major every day. World championship or Ryder Cup? Win a world championship. At the end of the day you're going to be remembered for what you achieve in an individual sport.

Well, I think any national championship is an extremely important championship to play in.