Top 656 Championship Quotes

Most of our players come from the Championship; Chelsea can get more or less anyone from around the world. Some clubs in this division have owners who say it doesn’t matter what they spend. I don’t know what happened to Financial Fair Play but it didn’t exactly level the playing field.

It’s always a big thing when you get to hold the championship because it shows that not only are you capable but that the company as a whole has faith in you.

I was thankful that TNA saw the potential in me and put me in a position to fulfill something like winning the World Heavyweight Championship.

I reckon every player feels much the same on the eve of a Six Nations championship. We all want to finish top, win the title and do our respective countries proud in the process. We’re also aware a lot of other people are seeking precisely the same thing. Pessimism and optimism collide like two ferrets in a sack.

I had almost no money, but with the little bit I had, I got a ticket to see ‘That Championship Season’ at the Booth theater.

Being the United States champion, it makes me elevate the title even more because, at the end of the day, that is what I wanna do. I wanna elevate the title, whether it be the world championship, the universal championship, any of these titles.

I’ve always wanted to win a championship so badly.

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.

I just know that I have this Universal championship, and I want to make it worth as much as possible, and that’s what I’m focusing on.

I feel like I’ve always been doubted or slighted. Let’s be honest. When you’re a walk-on, you don’t start for a No. 1 team, a national championship contender. You just don’t. A walk-on is a guy who plays scout team, who’s just happy to be on the team.

In my humble opinion, again, to perform at Alabama, you must earn the spot and not have it given to you. You have to fight like crazy to keep the spot and that it’s not guaranteed – it’s week to week – and you’ll play in a way that they have a chance to win a championship.

I don’t care about losing. How many times did Michael Jordan lose before he won his first championship? It wasn’t about the number of losses with Sugar Ray Leonard or Tommy Hearns.

It’s the only thing that allowed me to win so many championship fights and allowed me to put up with the bigotry of the media, the keyboard warriors, the critics. I’ve endured it all because, spiritually, I am buoyant, alive.

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.

There are a lot of great players that never got a chance to play for a national championship. And I got a chance to play for two.

That’s why I love the Premier League – it’s the best championship; it is very hard.

To win a championship is crazy.

I believe I’m destined to be a world champion and I’m getting closer to what I want. Part of it is developing a championship mentality and I feel I have that now.

I’ve been semi-successful. I’ve done all right but I’m not the player I was. Who do I think will win the world championship? John Higgins. Have I been good for snooker? I don’t know.

Whenever you’re playing in the Championship or League football, you know there are play-offs at the end of it. If you miss out on the top two, it’s a great alternative to play in a play-off final.

To be a part of something special and compete for a championship is something that’s not capable on every team.

All the other major championship venues rotate around, so winning the Masters gives you the opportunity for many years to walk down memory lane and be a significant part of that club.

Usually, when you win the championship, you party all summer and don’t work out. But when I won, I mean, I had my good times, but I used it as motivation to do it again. When you realize you can accomplish something so great, you want to do it again.

When I won the United States Championship at Hell in a Cell, it was awesome. It was my first championship ever in WWE, so it’s a really cool moment for me.

I don’t think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship.

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.

I kind of miss that whole NXT thing. When I was there, it was Florida Championship Wrestling with Seth Rollins and the other guys who were there. I wrestled on, like, local-access Florida TV in front of 30 people. It was a tiny little situation.

You have to have a lot of good players to win a championship.

Getting to the Premier League is significant enough. But staying in it is another thing entirely, particularly when you’ve not spent much and kept the core of the team that was promoted from the Championship and was not even fancied to do so in the first place.

To be able to be the first person from NXT to defend their NXT Championship at WrestleMania is awesome and I love making history.

Billy Konchellah with his World Championship titles, Paul Ereng with his Olympic gold and Wilson Kipketer with his World records are my role models.

The momentum that I had before winning the NXT Women’s Championship was incredible. I was doing absolutely everything and anything.

The 2017 European Championship was my first major tournament for England, but everyone tells me the World Cup is a different level.

I want to win a championship and you can’t win it by yourself in college.

When I get to Sacramento, I’m going to work my tail off trying to become a complete player and hopefully bring a championship to the city.

I’ve been in a Reds’ uniform, in Cincinnati, owning a house here, part of the community. I cross paths with tons of people. Every time it’s about ‘let’s win, let’s keep going, let’s win a championship here.’ And the support has been tremendous. And I want to be a part of the team that gives that back to the community.

If I’m watching my favorite boxer, and he’s just won the heavyweight championship of the world, and he retires, it kind of makes the guy a legend.

Hello, friends.’ I’ve had fun with that expression to satisfy the cynics, but it comes from the heart, and I don’t apologize for it. Like my dad – for whom I designed the expression during the 2002 PGA Championship, when he was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease – I’ve never met a stranger.

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

I think when you’re a very good defensive team – it’s very rare a team wins a championship when you’re not a very good defensive team.

I definitely wasn’t anything special when I first started but I think I adapted quite quickly into racing and it became a bit better slowly. All of cadets, the first four years of karting, I only won one proper race, one! Which was the British Open Championship at PFI and I started 21st and I won.

‘205’ should be called ‘Buddy Murphy Live.’ The championship is on my shoulder, and so is the show.

I always want to go up against the best competition, I want to have as many championship matches as possible.

The first time I won the Ring of Honor World Championship, I was a kid – I was 23 years old.

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.

I would love to bring the state of Utah their first championship. I think that’s one thing I’ve always wanted.

If you start thinking of the Super Bowl championship as your motivation, you are going to miss the trees for the forest or the forest for the trees. I never could understand that one.

My whole thing when I got in the NBA was I want to win a championship. The mindset hasn’t changed.

I went from being a junior – and probably set to be Kushida’s arch-nemesis until the cows came home – to suddenly being vaulted into the heavyweight title picture for the Intercontinental championship. That taught me a lesson: I couldn’t put a limit on myself.

Dad re-mortgaged the house and family and friends pitched in to help me get through that first year and after that, that was it. I won my first championship in cars that year – 1991.

Each championship is unique and special.

The single most important thing that sports fans want is competition building to a meaningful championship.

Of course, becoming champions is something we all want, but I think that the best ‘championship’ for a manager is to see players like Koke, Lucas Hernandez, Angel Correa – lads who have come up from all the way down in the lower divisions – become professionals of a high standard.