In the Championship you do take tackles where you think, ‘OK, he is putting one on me to prove a point.’ They want to try and get in your head, ruin your performance. It doesn’t bother me.
The Hardcore Championship is still probably my favorite title of all time.
The England team shouldn’t be picked on whichever players are in the Premier League when you’ve got a Premier League player playing in the Championship.
At a certain point in one’s career, you want to win, not just have a great season. You want to win a championship.
My main goal in Impact Wrestling is to win the Knockouts Championship.
It is about building the best team you can, not just one to play in the Championship. You look short-term because you need to be competitive, that’s the nature of the business. But it’s exciting to have players whose potential is exciting.
People say, ‘Wow, you’ve achieved it all this year: two world championship wins and an Olympic gold medal.’ And I think, ‘Yeah, but how come I feel so unsatisfied and under pressure all over again?’
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.
It’s such a crazy league, the Championship. People used to say that to me, and when you are in the Premier League, you don’t really take notice. It’s a good league; it’s tough, and I like it. But the Premier League is where I want to be, with Villa.
As much as I love to watch movies, nothing beats being ringside for a championship fight in boxing.
Blake & Murphy didn’t seem to appreciate who I was and what I was doing for them. After losing the NXT Tag Team Championship, they went on a long losing streak. They needed me yet just used me as an accessory.
I’m helpless in post-round, hole-by-hole interviews. I can’t take you through most of the holes of winning the Players Championship, the U.S. Amateur or Ryder Cup matches. It’s like golf amnesia.
Obviously being third in the Formula 1 world championship would be crazy.
In the longer term we have got to learn how to bowl on flat pitches if England are to head the ICC Championship table.
It is the most important thing we can do to establish a promotion, is to establish the championship. It is what everyone is trying to obtain, how do you obtain the championship? By establishing a run of matches, a streak, by winning a big match, winning a title eliminator.
I cannot wait to get to Boston and start to practice with the rest of the team in pursuit of a championship.
I’ve always thought that being in the UFC is what the name suggests: Ultimate Fighting Championship. As time went on, people started learning to use the rules that suit them.
I’ve played at a European Championship; to represent your country at a World Cup is every boy’s dream, and for me, it would definitely be a dream come true.
The Big Ten championship game is one of our goals year in and year out. So that’s just the focus.
Playing the DP World Tour Championship at the Earth Course is always a great week.
To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
Everything in life is how you respond to it. If everything went perfect all the time – you never lost a game, you got to the championship every time, you always won, you always got the top recruit, you always made the A – you really wouldn’t truly appreciate all that goes into it.
You don’t have to love each other. I’ve been on a lot of championship teams in Europe where there’s edges and we don’t go out to dinner every night.
I wanted to have a chance to win a championship.
The PGA Championship, last of the majors each year, might well be accustomed to having fun poked at it by the print press for being mired in August, but this isn’t fair.
I guess if you’re not going to win the championship, you’re better off taking the opportunity to win a Brickyard or a Daytona 500 than you are to make the Chase and then fizzle out.
Having different people come together and be on a team and win a world championship is literally, I think, the definition of being American.
We say it every year: we are confident; we think we can win a championship, yadda, yadda, yadda. You have all heard it before. But we have to go out there and do it.
Sauber had a bad championship the year after they fired me and so if I had stayed it would have not been so good. Sometimes life does these things to you because it’s the right thing. You think it’s wrong, ‘initially, but life proves different.
Plenty of other franchises have reinvented themselves into winners after hitting rock bottom. The 1976 Tampa Bay team that went 0-14 arguably was worse than the 2008 Lions, but the Bucs reached the NFC Championship Game in 1979 and ultimately won the Super Bowl after the 2002 season.
If you go back and look at WWE Magazine, they asked me when I was going to win my first world championship and I told them WrestleMania XXVI, so I was only a couple days off.
The fact that I am still alive after 100,000 laps is my championship.
In order to win in the NFL… you’ve got to be desperate to win a championship.
I tell our team all the time, nobody once in the history of this great game – nor will they ever, I hope – has stood at a championship stage or podium holding a championship trophy and say, ‘We out-finessed everybody.’
There is nothing better than playing for the championship at any level of football.
I want every year to have a chance to compete for a championship.
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.
I have won Serie B, Serie C, Serie D like the Championship, League One, and League Two here in England.
That’s the ultimate goal is to win the championship.
I think there’s a lot of different ways to win. You’ve seen teams that win championships with a super-duper star like Kobe Bryant. Those championship teams with Michael Jordan certainly had a great, great player.
I would love to take the WWE championship back to India. Nobody has ever taken a WWE championship to India, so just to think about the power that I would have to motivate the youth and to inspire a tremendous amount of people there is amazing.
I think that winning a third World Championship would really take me up to another level in the sport.
No matter what job I’ve undertaken, whether it was Glory Kickboxing or Strikeforce or Pride Fighting Championships or Showtime Championship Boxing, you have to play by the rules of the company you work for.
Charles Martin, we watched him. He won the IBF championship of the world, but we don’t think he is anything special.
The best match I ever played in was the U.K. championship final against John Parrot in 1992. I won 16-14 and I felt like I could pot anything from anywhere.
Long-term, I want to capture the WWE championship. I want to be a grand slam champion.
I had vied for a championship; I had been involved in being a No. 1 contender, and having runs where I got close but I never got there. Being able to finally get there and be the guy to carry the load and carry it for a while, I felt like I arrived, and it validated my career.
Getting hurt and watching Tom Brady take over and beginning what’s been just a spectacular run of his, and to come back and play in the AFC Championship Game against the Steelers in Pittsburgh, and help us win that game, is a memory that stands out very clearly.
You make sacrifices. You sacrifice yourself. Do you want to possibly win a championship? Or do you want to be the same person you were when you were 20 and get those same numbers?
My only drive was to be the best dancer in the world, but I never won the world championship.
When I first started playing at Norwich, West Brom were in the Championship, got promoted, got relegated, got promoted, got relegated, and all the time, they were building until they eventually stayed up.
Winning the Championship was my biggest achievement.
I’ve been in the league 12 years. To sit on the bench and complain about the way things were, that doesn’t get anything done. I don’t know. I’m playing for a championship and trying to make the playoffs. My effort has never changed.
There’s no point, me turning up at the world championship as a publicity stunt and then lose 10-3 to someone who shouldn’t tie my shoelaces.
I almost wrote my career off. I wasn’t quite good enough and I thought that ship had sailed. But I carried on, won the World Under-21 Championship in 2003 and got the tour card.
I hope I can help the team improve their performance, and what that would look like, I guess, is one of the guys winning the 500 or the championship. If that happened, I would be a tiny part.
If I didn’t think I could win the World Championship I would go and play golf badly in Spain.
The Championship is relentless sometimes with the Saturday, Tuesday, Saturday, Tuesday.
When I set in my mind I wanted the world championship in jiu-jitsu, I got it three times.
Every team starts out at the beginning of the year saying, ‘We want to win a championship,’ but you’ve got to have a goal of getting to the playoffs first.
