Before broadcasting for 50-some years, I did TV, played 10 years in the big leagues, won a world championship – and played a big part in that, too, letting the Cardinals inject me with hepatitis. Takes a big man to do that.
Seeing my name in the newspapers after winning the national junior championship motivated me to win more medals and I have never looked back since then.
It’s been an unbelievable thing for me to walk Bruin Walk and walk past Coach Wooden’s statue, a guy that when I was in elementary school, it’s Coach Wooden winning his final championship, his 10th in 12 years.
It will be a hard game if you think about winning a championship. We need to think about our own game at the moment and focus on getting good results especially over the Christmas period.
We’re really greedy when it comes to titles. We want every championship – the women’s title included.
You come up to 20 years old and you’ve only played three times. You see other boys who are playing regularly in the Premier League or in the Championship. And you’re thinking ‘I’ve only played three times, no starts, they’ve all been five minutes here and there.’
I just can’t put the pressure on of winning a championship, winning a championship, because then I’d never be able to sleep.
When you’re in the Championship, you try and move the opponent around a bit and pull players into positions they don’t want to be in.
It must be the PGA Championship if it’s August and you can sit down and talk to the heat or reach inside your shirt, where it’s 110 degrees, and grab handfuls of humidity.
The first championship in 2005 will always be the most special but winning this fifth one was by far my best performance because of the strength of the field.
I’m just here to play basketball and have fun and try to win another championship.
When I went up there it was with one goal was to win a championship. Obviously that didn’t happen but I don’t have one bad thing to say about my time in Boston.
I have always wanted to spend my entire career in the Charlotte community and concentrate on bringing the city a championship.
You have to take certain truths. One truth is that to have championship success in the NFL you have to learn to deliver the ball from the pocket.
Carwin, he seems like he trains for five one-minute rounds. That’s his championship fight, apparently.
The support this city and our fans have shown the Grizzlies made my decision to stay in Memphis an easy one. Memphis deserves a championship team, and I am committed to that.
During my 11-year coaching tenure, Saint Joseph’s won or tied for the Big Five championship seven times, went to 10 postseason tournaments – including seven NCAA appearances – and reached the Final Four in 1961.
When I was in the academy I might have done a little trick here or there or a step-over, but as you get older I learned in the Championship, my first real experience of it, they don’t always come off and experienced players are going to read it.
The Masters, while it has slowly gained equal importance as a major, isn’t really the championship of anything.
It’s not about guys getting minutes or scoring 20 points or getting playing time. To me, it’s about if you’ve got to make one 3-pointer to win that championship, we need you to make that one 3-pointer. Whatever it takes.
When you look at coaching in the pros 25-plus years, I have been with rebuilding teams and I have been with championship teams, and so I know all the steps in-between.
‘Moonwalking with Einstein’ refers to a memory device I used when I memorized a deck of playing cards at the U.S. Memory Championship. When I competed in 2006, I set a new U.S. record by memorizing a deck of cards in one minute and 40 seconds. That record has since fallen.
If you set yourself the career goal of winning a major championship, then once you win that major championship it’s then a question of ‘what next?’ And that can take quite a while to figure out.
When you’re at world championship level, you’re fighting other guys who are at a world championship level.
They were ridiculous times. After I won my world championship in 1976, I went to Japan.
My generation started in big tournaments. ’88 Olympics, we got silver. ’89 European Championship, we got gold. 1990 World Cup in Argentina, we got gold. ’91 European Championship, we got gold, and then there was a civil war, and for three years, we didn’t play.
When you win a championship, you realize it takes a level of stamina that most people don’t have.
Being the first Australian to ever actually hold a WWE promoted championship – it is a huge honour. It’s something that can never be taken away. Words can’t describe it.
My defense is a criticism, but we won a national championship at Duke, so it wasn’t that bad.
The championship always goes to the team that wins the most rounds and is the most prepared. I think everybody on our team works hard towards keeping that goal. Time will tell if we’re prepared or not.
I didn’t care about titles unless they were championship titles. I don’t care about who the man is on the team.
If Ding keeps performing the way he has been doing then it is inevitable the World Championship will go to his country.
I have done a lot of NFL games, a season-opening home games, playoff games, championship games, and of course Stanley Cup games, World Series, NBA championship games. But I have never done a Superbowl. It’s probably the only major sporting event I’ve never done and I would like to.
I’d like to thank my former club, Manchester City, for the support throughout my time in the Championship and during my transition to Huddersfield.
Growing up, I always dreamed of winning an NBA championship, never a gold. A gold was something that never crossed my mind.
When I went to NXT U.K. and I was part of the women’s championship tournament, I saw all of those people and I was absolutely floored. I had never wrestled in front of that many people before.
There were a few clubs in the Championship and I spoke to some managers, but I wanted to play for Tottenham. There was always that doubt that if I left I’d end up regretting it, and I would have definitely regretted it.
My goal is to make the WWE championship as relevant and prestigious as it should be.
It wasn’t until ’79 I won my first amateur championship, and then, by ’81, I was 14, and I won my first world championship, which was amazing to me, and in a very real sense, that was the first real victory I had.
I was part of London 2012 in the build-up and there’s always drama ahead of a major championship or Games.
So much of my life I’ve dedicated to golf, aspiring to win my first major championship. To be able to do so aged 24 is awesome.
When I went to Baylor on a basketball scholarship – and when I thought about the future as a freshman – one achievement I wanted more than any individual award was a national championship.
As a sophomore, I wanted to play varsity in three sports. And I accomplished that. It was a great feat that year, and something I held special. I wanted to bring a championship team to Oceanside High School, and it happened. It was a great year that I will never forget.
Charles Barkley played in an era where he was never the guy. He always had to take a back seat to Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Isaiah Thomas, because what did they have that he never got? A championship.
I’ve won a world championship, I know how that feels. I don’t know how it feels to win a gold medal. I want to feel that; I want to know that.
I don’t necessarily get rubs from championships, I’d like to feel the championship gets a rub off of me.
Any time you get to compete for the championship in a professional spot, it’s just a magic thing.
Ever since I lost the Women’s Championship to Askua, I feel like I’ve been targeted in a whole different way. People have tried to keep me down and keep me away from the title picture to make sure that I never get a chance again.
Everything in the business is based around the idea of a World Championship. WWE, World Heavyweight Championship, Universal Title, the ROH Title, or the IWGP Title – they are all World Championships. The best of the best.
LeBron James without Lonzo is not gonna win a championship in L.A. I guarantee that.
The ultimate superstar has to have more than skill on the court. He must possess the ‘It Factor’ – a combination of marketable personality and championship rings.
It is a much bigger thing to have a world championship with Chicago than this one in Italy.
I’m very confident I’ll win my championship before my career is over.
You want to win a championship, but you want to be considered one of the best of all time. All-Star. Hall of Fame.
I don’t feel as though I am under any pressure to return to Australia, given I won the PGA Championship, and I am just hoping everyone back home will understand my situation. I just want to make sure I am there for Ellie and that she has my support when she has our second child.
Knowing the opportunity to win a championship here in Chicago, right now, that’s the main motivation for me.
I feel like winning a world championship was a hurdle I had to get over.
Ultimately, a women’s only championship is not going to get more females into motorsport as a whole.
Honestly, to me, the WWE championship and the Universal championship are the same thing. They’re the top championships on the respective brands.
