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.
My dream is to get gold medal both in the world championship and the Olympics.
My big break came at 22 years old when I joined the Mercedes Benz touring championship team.
The thing that I appreciate so much about my career and journey is that I do believe everybody can relate to it. There were highs and lows, obviously, before I got to the NFL. And then I got there and won a championship.
Growing up in L.A., every kid wants to play for the Lakers. As a kid I went to their championship parades, bought a Kobe jersey – I went to the gym and made everybody call me Kobe – loved Shaq, loved the three-peat.
If you win a championship, you win it doing many of the same things you had to do when we won championships. You have to be unselfish. You have to work very hard. You have to be resilient. You have to have a passion for what you do.
I have great memories of playing in the Champions League at Celtic Park. That was something I will never forget, and of course we won a championship and that’s something no-one can take away from me.
A world championship medal on the road is something that I’m missing from my CV.
When you look at the vast amounts of money in the Premier League – and some extent the Championship – people think all footballers get paid a lot. But there’s a different side. In League Two, it’s dog-eat-dog. You must work for your money by getting results.
I might win a championship. I might win two or three. I might not. The journey to get there is, for me, the most important.
If you’ve ever won a championship, then that’s all you’re interested in doing.
I signed for Reading and then West Ham where people called me ‘The Invisible Man’ or a ‘poster’ because I was on the bench for three months. I turned down opportunities to go on loan because I’d achieved everything I wanted in the Championship.
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.
If it came to a World Championship final playing Michael van Gerwen in a last-leg decider and people were booing, that would hurt.
We had no preconceived ideas. We were on this football team to go out and win ballgames and try to win a championship, that’s all. To Brian and me, it was no big deal.
It’s been my dream to fight Matt Hughes for the championship.
I’m a championship handball player. I’m a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I’m really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.
That’s my main goal: to win a world championship.
Heavyweight championship. People want to see the big guys bang. Other champions are great, too. But ain’t nothing like seeing the big guys throw down.
Not many people do what Jameis Winston did: first year as a starter winning a national championship, only one loss in his two years as a starter. He’s got great charisma. He’s polarizing for some people, but he’s a rare talent.
I want to be the world’s number one one-day player; I want to win a World Cup, win the championship with Lancashire – those are my motivations.
My dream is always to win the championship and I will keep fighting to achieve what I want.
When you win a championship, you can’t always rely on that for the rest of your life. You want to try to go out there and win a better one.
Huddersfield isn’t one of the biggest fishes in the Championship and to get bigger you have to find new ways. I’ve been surprised by how open-minded and innovative everybody is at this club, not only the players but the whole staff, the whole management.
I just think that playing in a championship game and playing in every game in March Madness, that’s just more time for critics to watch you and more time for them to nitpick at what you don’t do well or what they feel you don’t do well.
The Booker 2011 is of no more interest to me than the world heavyweight championship, which I’m not going to win either. It’s irrelevant.
During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.
Well, I think any national championship is an extremely important championship to play in.
I know the ‘big spending club v. smaller club’ theme is popular in the Premier League. I don’t think about it – we are 30 teams trying to win the championship, and you do what you need to do.
You can be in this league for 10-15 years and not win a championship. My boy, Nelson Agholor, been in the league for three years and got a ring with Philly. That’s what we live for and dream for. That’s why I think a lot of guys stay in Pittsburgh: because we always compete for championships.
Not everyone makes it to the national championship.
I’ve played for England Under-21s, in the Under-20 World Cup and I’ve been part of the play-offs in the Championship. But in terms of helping my career and getting me ready, going to Cheltenham Town was a massive experience.
I have only prepared properly for the World Championship three or four times in my life. If I had gone about it professionally I would have won the title 10 times.
The world championship is what I am here for.
It’s true that if it’s always going to be that if you win the World Cup or European Championship, you’re a success, and if you don’t, you’re a failure, then you’re bedding yourself for a lack of success because there aren’t many coaches who have won those things, and there are thousands who haven’t.
You can sit and imagine what it is like to go into a hostile stadium, or what it’s like to play for the AFC championship, but you never know until you do it.
Frankly, I’ve had the opportunity to get certain accolades, make it to the conference finals, get awards, all this other stuff that doesn’t matter. I’m looking only on championship probability. I just feel like I haven’t accomplished much unless I can somehow get that done.
It would be nice to be highest scorer in the Championship.
To stay sane, I lived in my head, where I could travel and imagine. In my mind, I played a championship game with the Knicks. I won Wimbledon five times. If the Yankees needed a home run, I came to bat.
The joy I get from winning a major championship doesn’t even compare to the feeling I get when a kid writes a letter saying: ‘Thank you so much. You have changed my life.’
When I was drafted by Chicago, I said, ‘Wow, it would be nice to play with those guys.’ I knew I’d have an automatic chance to win a championship.
The first thing a striker wants to do in the Championship is set a target of about 20. After each game I will take the next as it goes and see how that target goes.
When I talk about a successful program, define that. It’s not just winning the national championship every year because nobody can do that.
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.
I want a real opportunity to win a championship.
It’s a big step up for me, coming from the Championship to the Premier League, and, at the end of the day, it’s up to the gaffer when I play and what role I take up.
I’m going to bring the championship home to Kansas City.
Making my debut at Man City, playing with my brother, that was a high point and was amazing. Going to Charlton and winning the League One championship. Even when I was at Southampton, my first year there I really enjoyed it.
I’ve been Intercontinental Champion lots of times, Television Champion. One of my favorites has been the Hardcore Championship because it reflected my favorite style, and I feel that the X Division belt does that, too.
I don’t know how many 19 year-olds are playing in the Championship, there’s certainly not any playing in the Premiership. It depends on what type of character you are really.
I think the biggest thing I want to learn from Kevin Garnett, with him having a ring, is how do I become a championship player? How do I see how a championship team looks like? How do I use myself to be a championship contributor?
I’m not going to go fight the best guys in the world without getting championship fights or championship money; it makes no sense.
It isn’t just about winning the championship and I don’t think you should be defined by that.
The idea of playing the point and leading a team to the NBA championship is what drove me to get up every day and work on my game as a kid.
I got heavier, I got stronger, I won the European championship title in powerlifting, I broke three world records so everything was going perfect.
It’s always been something I’ve wanted to try and do, to take Wales to a major championship.
Sometimes having good games. Sometimes bad ones. Sometimes making shots, and sometimes not. I’m the same guy, and I always said that winning the championship or not winning it, scoring 20 the last game or second-to-last or whatever, or zero, is not going to change who I am or the decision I make.
