People tell me all the time you have to be mentally tough to win the championship, and I feel like enough people hype it up to where you have to act different come playoff time. But I’m not a tough guy. So I don’t know how to be tough. I don’t know what I’m ‘supposed’ to be doing.
I was relegated with West Ham and you never forget that. Going down, playing in the Championship, I constantly remind myself of that. I still remember the feeling, without doubt, I wouldn’t allow myself to forget it.
In the pursuit of a championship and beyond, I’m determined to take my performance, on and off the field, to the next level. I’m confident that MET-Rx and their great lineup of sports nutrition products is the perfect partner to help me do just that.
Going to Omaha for the College World Series – the people there are tremendous – huge crowds and a lot of excitement. I still remember those days – you make a lot of friends that you never forget when you win a championship like that.
I feel very fortunate to be the face of the women’s division on ‘Smackdown Live’ and defend that championship any opportunity that I get.
Ever since I was little, I wanted to win the NBA championship.
I had a taste of a championship in San Antonio, and that was big for me. I cried when we won, and I hadn’t cried in 10 years before that. It felt good, everything I’d been through, to say I was the champion at the end of the year.
Every year the goal is a championship. That’s what I expect.
This IWGP title means more with me than any WWE championship.
Jiu jitsu is a great art for self-defense. But jiu jitsu alone won’t get you to a world championship in the UFC or even a winning record sometimes.
I went through ups and downs as a young player dealing with criticism and things of that nature. To finally win that first NBA championship, it was definitely a relief of a lot of pressure and frustration we dealt with as a team. It was great to bring a championship to the city of Chicago.
I’m always going to be a Celtic no matter what. It’s always going to be in my veins. Once you live there and play for that team and win a championship, it doesn’t matter where you go.
Obviously, when I was playing in the Championship, I always dreamed about playing for England, putting on the jersey.
I believe if you can’t play at a championship level, it’s time to stop playing.
It started with Dragon Gate USA, where I started as a guy on the pre-show and wasn’t promised anything. I kept coming and doing what I do and ended up on the main show and eventually won their championship.
By 2002 we might be championship challengers. But I want to race fast. I want to become world champion myself.
You’ve got to be able to be on point with your game if you want to make it to the Tour Championship.
I expected to be a pretty good NBA point guard and hopefully win a championship. But MVP and all this stuff? Not really.
The reason I went to an all-boys Catholic school was because they had the best football team. We won the state championship my junior year. It was super-competitive. We lost in the semifinals my senior year, and it still haunts me.
I always hated when I had to do the promos, especially because I got to push their agenda and try to tell you that this championship match is more important than anything in the world to me. Come on. No, it’s not.
There would be nothing more thrilling than to win a championship.
I’ve been to just one AFC championship game.
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.
Most proud moment: Winning the championship in 2003 with a great team, retiring, and going out in the perfect way. Had a great journey and knowing it was the right time to focus more on family and community activities.
I didn’t care about the Pride championship or the Pride tournament.
Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
The Championship is a ferocious league, physically demanding, and it simply does not allow players the luxury of cruising through.
Wimbledon is quite simply the ultimate championship, and I’d be the first to admit it was the one I wanted to win. A lot has to do with the history and the tradition: the grass courts, the royal box, the grand spectacle of it all.
Everybody’s dream is to win a championship, but not everyone gets that chance. The only thing you can do is make sure you don’t look back and have to wonder whether you did everything you could have done. I know I’ll be able to look back and feel I had a good, honest career.
Obviously it’s always special having that first championship, but when you can go out and you’re a car to beat every week, I think that’s what classifies a great year.
This season is my most special and most cherished. All my focus is on getting that championship back here.
I think the ’06 Ravens, if we woulda won a championship, would have been considered maybe the best of all time, because statistically, I think that defense led the NFL in more categories than any other defense in history.
I’m so happy to be here and I want to bring championship football back to the University of Northern Colorado.
In my first two world championship experiences, I barely saw the ice at all.
I think the model of the Championship should be reconsidered, because the turnover of owners, keep changing all the time every one, two, three years, is not really healthy system for the fans, for the clubs – this is because it is really not sustainable to stay in the Championship.
When you win by three touchdowns in a state championship and you’ve got people who can’t appreciate that? That’s really sad.
You have all the ambition of winning a championship and competing in your hometown. For me, it didn’t work out that way.
That was probably the biggest shock I had in my career, coming from League Two to the Championship.
In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.
I don’t mind being a second fiddle. I don’t mind that. I don’t care whatever happens, whatever helps my team get a championship is what I want to do. Whatever helps my team win is what I want to do.
If I were to doubt myself, I wouldn’t even have a chance to be competing for the NXT Women’s Championship.
Somebody asked me – you know, how come it took you so long to win a national championship? And I said, ‘I’m a slow learner; but you notice when I learn something, I have it down pretty good.’
In 2000 I was really close to sign for Real Madrid. I was in Belgium, playing the European Championship. I even took a picture with the Real Madrid shirt because all the parties thought that it was a done deal. But Wenger called me several times and convinced me to sign for Arsenal instead.
When I was in high school, we won our state championship my sophomore year. We worked so hard that year because we had lost in the state championship the year before.
Of course, I want to win the championship.
If you’re lucky enough to get into a Premier League or Championship team straight away, well done to you, but I feel really grateful for the experience that I had at the lower end.
What I believe is that we need a united group, people who are willing to fight for the club in the Championship. They need to put their services into the good of the team, for the good of the team.
A lot of teams have won one state championship, but not many teams can say they went back-to-back.
When you make your final list for the World Cup or European Championship you don’t take the 23 best players, that is for sure.
For me, to get any match is fine. For me to be thrown right into the mix and be named No. 1 Contender for the World Heavyweight Championship is a blessing.
You never put the title on somebody to get them over. What you do is you take your championship and put it on the guy that’s the most over, that’s the reason, because that guy is ready to draw you money.
When you look back at the former Ring of Honor world champions, whether it be Daniel Bryan, CM Punk, Samoa Joe, Nigel McGuiness, the list goes on and on. These are the guys that built the lineage and importance of the Ring of Honor world championship.
The list of guys who have held the ROH championship, that’s an elite group of guys.
Winning the first championship is a goal for any boxer, and it means a lot to reach it.
I think when they put together this College Football Playoff, I think you… do you play a light schedule and put everything into your conference championship? That’s not what I’m feeling across the country. They want to make every game important, which they have.
I was blessed to play 15 years, especially not even supposed to have made it. So, to be able to play 15 years, win a championship, I think that basketball chapter of my life is done.
