When you win a championship, period, it never hits you until you get home the next day.
I’m going for the Knockouts Championship.
Honestly, I just want to wrestle! Like, I don’t need to be in these crazy gimmick matches or always be working for the championship.
Championship teams are built on being prepared, playing unselfishly and being held accountable, and that’s how I expect to coach this basketball team. I am truly excited about this next phase of my basketball career.
I still think we have a great shot at this championship.
The worst I encountered was Peter Manley talking behind me as I threw during our world championship quarter-final back in 2006.
I became number one just after the World Championships in India. I was very young then, and I remember it was just a great feeling, my first World Championship.
After I win the Championship, I’ll be happy to take on anyone.
I know the feeling of being in a city – and a team winning a championship – as a young person, and then seeing the impact in the community, seeing the excitement for days, for weeks, for long stretch of time, and how special it can be.
One of the best things is to be able to go to the playoffs and win a championship. After you taste the first one, you want to go back every year.
Honestly, for me, when the Pacers win a championship, I’ll feel a little bit better.
At the end of the day, if you look where The Shield was, where else are we going to go? Are we going to share the WWE World Heavyweight Championship? I don’t think so.
If somebody ask me to do something for my country, I will. If there’s a world championship, I go.
I know to win a championship, you’re not going to do it alone. You’re going to have to have a great supporting cast.
My next project is ‘Venus Vs,’ which is a documentary that follows tennis star Venus Williams and her effort to get equal-award pay for women at Wimbledon. Most people don’t realize that Venus fought for years to make sure women and men winners of that tennis championship received the same amount in award money.
You always want to have good balance. That’s the key to winning a Super Bowl. You look at the teams who have won championships, you got to have balance. So, to be able to run the ball effectively and throw the ball effectively is what gives you the chance to win a world championship.
When I was 12, I had a coach tell me I would never be a championship pitcher. That devastated me. I was crushed.
I won my very first fight by knockout in the first round. The trainer at the time was in love with me and he said I could make a career out of boxing. So I started boxing for the barrios or neighborhood championship.
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.
We won the European Championship last September and now the world title. That is some year for French beach soccer! Now comes the hard part. We have to keep improving and that’s difficult because it’s tough to do better than winning a world title.
I have a couple of rules. Number one, get competitive. Number two, win a game. Number three, win two games in a row. Number four, win a championship.
Injuries are a big factor when you’re trying to go on a championship run.
Never once was it said I was disappointed Peyton didn’t win us more than one championship.
The step up from the Championship is really big and at the beginning I had a few performances that weren’t great.
If you’ve led the championship after seven races you should be fighting for the title.
I want to develop a championship culture that’s filled with high-character people that are dedicated to becoming the best versions of themselves.
Money and all that stuff doesn’t equal a ring, because you’ll always be in the books as winning a championship and being on one of the best teams ever to play the game.
I wouldn’t call going into the Premier League an ordeal. I would say the Championship is more of an ordeal than the Premier League.
Not everyone can win the European Championship.
LeBron James needs to go to another team with two superstars already so he can win a championship.
My mom was a championship pool player.
It’s very tough to build a championship team. It takes time and good players, and you have to get lucky as well.
I remember embracing our championship tradition, telling our players that this is what we should expect to be; this is what Oklahoma is supposed to be. And we’re going to do all we can to be that. And if we don’t, there will be no excuses. You either do or you don’t.
When I first won my WWE Championship, I just got to TV – I believe I was there five months. Everything just happened so fast; it was like a whirlwind.
I have great respect for Jaypee Greens as a company that has produced a truly world class, 24-carat, championship golf course. I am happy to be associated with a company with such outstanding qualities.
But I was always a bit of a gypsy, anyway. I spent five years at Oklahoma State, five years at Miami and moved on after winning the national championship, and five years with the Cowboys. So, I was ready to move on. We won back-to-back Super Bowls, and I felt that I accomplished what I wanted to accomplish.
I’d like to see him fight at 135 for the championship. I want to see how good Demetrious Johnson is or how far he could take it.
For me, personally, on the inside, the best moment was winning my first championship.
I wanted the ADCC championship, I got it two times.
After winning a championship, I learned something about this: To win a championship, you need everybody. You need everybody to be out there, everybody to have confidence to play at a high level.
To win a championship, you need an unselfish mindset.
The championship, in my eyes, in television, is obviously an Emmy.
I’ve had a couple of years where injuries have not let me develop in the way I wanted. When I was 21, after the European Championship, I had more injuries. Everything has been less continuous and it has cost me more progress. Continuity is what got me where I am.
I don’t want to be cocky, but I want to win a championship and feel that with my team, I have the ability.
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.
That’s one of the reasons I decided to come to Boston – to contend and win a championship, especially with the history of the Celtics and what they stand for.
2018 was the most important year because we won the Championship.
I say get all three of my boys and you have a championship… the chemistry is the best ever between the brothers.
There’s so many factors that go into a Super Bowl championship that rely heavily on the organization.
Promoters believed in me and gave me a platform, and then the fans started believing in me. It went from me trying to show the fans what I was all about to growing companies around the world. I got to be the face of so many companies, like EVOLVE and Insane Championship Wrestling in Scotland.
I started racing at club level, then the Scottish championship, then the British championship, then the European, then the Worlds. I went through all the various ranks. I spent a good ten years doing karting.
It’s no secret that the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship is a huge dream of mine. There’s been so many guys I looked up to – Pegasus Kid, Owen Hart, Liger, Prince Devitt, Kota Ibushi… the best of the best have held that belt.
I’ve enjoyed winning races in both 500cc and MotoGP and enjoyed leading the world championship and contesting it right up until the end.
The team which I led to the 1992 European Championship Finals is the only one in the history of the entire competition to have won every single one of its qualifying matches.
I’m not after the money or the fame. I’m after the world championship, and that’s it.
To win the Championship in the first year will be hard. We need time to become competitive and win races.
Winning a championship, really – that’s the main goal, so if you don’t do that then you can’t really say that you succeeded.
Just getting to the NFC Championship isn’t good enough. Winning the Super Bowl is what the expectations are.
I think people are realizing that whereas now the ‘Ultimate Fighting Championship’ has taken over what people used to like about pro wrestling in the ’70s and ’80s. We just want to see who’s going to fight for the title.
I won two Premier League championships, I played a lot – I won a championship with the Brazil team too.
I want to be ranked in the top 100 players. If I can achieve that, I’ll think about the world championship.
When we won the league championship, all the married guys on the club had to thank their wives for putting up with all the stress and strain all season. I had to thank all the single broads in New York.
If I would have listened to other people back in 2000 telling me I should have stopped playing basketball because of a kidney disease, I wouldn’t have won a world championship.
I’m thinking bigger picture; I want a championship.
