Top 656 Championship Quotes

I just want to ball. I just want a chance to win a championship. I just want to win. I wake up every day smiling. Why? Because I’ve got my people around me. I really don’t give a damn what anybody thinks about me or what I say or what I do.
Jimmy Butler
When I was eighteen and I won the European Championship – that’s when I realized I had an opportunity to play in the NBA one day.
Kristaps Porzingis
We’ve got to win a championship and bring a World Series trophy back to Chicago.
Ben Zobrist
There are so many positives and great memories I will take with me from Wimbledon 2018. It was always part of the dream to play in a Wimbledon final. It means so much for me to have played in the championship match.
Kevin Anderson
If I retire from this league and I haven’t won at least one championship, I’ll feel like all my years in the league would be a failure.
Rasheed Wallace
There’s three banners I want to hang – ACC regular championship, ACC tournament championship, and, of course, the national championship.
Jahlil Okafor
They said ‘the SEC this, the SEC that.’ I said, ‘You talk like all 14 teams are this, that and the other thing.’ I said, ‘You have to give credit to the first one or two that have won the national championship, but don’t act like they’re all doing that.’
Bob Stoops
I think that in Atlanta I was hoping that things would have worked out. Once I saw that things weren’t going to work out, I saw what was going to be the best situation for me to try to win an NBA championship.
Al Horford
To win a championship, you need to win on the road.
Matt Barnes
I don’t want to be one of those guys who is just there. I want to be a guy that’s on a team that makes it and be an All-Star and has a chance to always win an NBA championship.
Greg Oden
I wouldn’t want to be the guy who went out and won a championship in a horrible year but never made a comment on the issues that we are dealing with in our society.
Bubba Wallace
It’s the most important prize in WWE, the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. You’ll do anything and everything to keep it and to get it, and that includes putting your body on the line and doing whatever it takes.
Sheamus
I want to find a team that can give me a competitive car to win many more races and challenge for the championship.
Felipe Massa
Realistically, we could aim for the top three in the constructors championship. Realistically, we could look at winning more races. Three race wins would be very satisfying.
Damon Hill
You like to be part of a championship, but you always w

You like to be part of a championship, but you always want to be an integral part.
Kenny Smith
You do get labelled in the game, and that’s why I enjoyed my time managing in the Championship. I’d back myself against most people in that division.
Steve Bruce
I’d love to face Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. I would love nothing more.
Sheamus
You win a championship, and you feel 7 feet tall.
Jose Altuve
I’m not saying Brad Stevens should not be getting praise for the job that he’s done, because I feel like he’s done an outstanding job. I’m just saying the amount of praise he’s getting, you’d think he won a championship or two. They don’t give Steve Kerr that much love. Come on.
Robert Parish
After winning the European Championship with Spain, I know exactly how it feels to win a major trophy, and I know that, if we can win at Liverpool, it will feel the same or even better than it did with Spain.
Fernando Torres
No one superstar can win a championship by himself. You’ve got to have help.
Gary Payton
My main goal is trying to win games and a championship.
Jordan Clarkson
I wish I could say it’s easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.
Oksana Baiul
I’ve definitely seen a lot of good players since I’ve came to Australia and I’ve definitely seen a lot of players that could easily play in the Championship in England.
Ross McCormack
When hired three years ago, I willingly accepted the challenge of leading the Bulls back to the type of team this city richly deserves. I’m proud of the fact that each year the team has taken another step toward an NBA championship, and played with intense pride and determination.
Doug Collins
My pat line about the Cubs and payroll is that the amount of merchandise the Cubs would sell off a world series championship would more than cover for a big payroll.
Billy Corgan
We get three of the Ball boys on the Lakers together, and we gonna go championship, championship, championship, championship, championship.
LaVar Ball
It’s always a dream to sign a big contract, but the main dream is winning a championship and holding that trophy up with your teammates.
Ryan Tannehill
When I leave the NBA, I don’t want my legacy to be, ‘He won a championship ring.’ I want my legacy to say, ‘He played for the people. He gave everybody in the world hope that they can be just like him.’
Gilbert Arenas
We are a global sport. I mean, golf is obviously played all around the world. But when you have your National Championship, of course, everybody in America is rooting for an American.
Paula Creamer
The heavyweight championship of the world was the most coveted title in sports. Everyone knew who the heavyweight champion was. And not only when it was Muhammad Ali or Rocky Marciano: they knew when it was Ingemar Johansson.
Thomas Hauser
I want to make it to the championship.
Kevin Knox
For the moment, I am more focused on classical chess rather than rapid and blitz, as I am hoping to make my move in the classical World championship cycle.
Anish Giri
I want to be one of the greatest champions of all time. And it’s a good pressure – I need this pressure. Because if pressure is making me work, if it’s making me work harder – it was hard work to get to the championship, to win the championship.
Jinder Mahal
You still have to be able to throw the ball and play good defense to win a championship.
Bill Cowher
In wrestling, you’re talking about a fraternity of champions, and I got a chance to be a part of that Olympic championship club. And anyone that ever won the Olympics in wrestling, there’s something different about them.
Henry Cejudo
I knew that Errol Spence Jr. was going to be my last fight. I knew that in 2017 when he won his championship fight. But after we fought, I felt that there was something else, and that something else was Terence Crawford.
Shawn Porter
The minute you step off that podium is the minute you start preparing for the next world championship. That’s kind of how I work. You celebrate for a brief moment, then you move on.
Abby Wambach
I want to win a national championship; that’s been my dream since I was a child.
Chad Kelly
It was truly an enjoyable moment in my life that I will never forget having the opportunity to play for two gold medals. But I think nothing sticks out more than winning a championship in 1991 for me.
Scottie Pippen
I grew up watching LeBron and asking him to follow me back on Twitter, going to his camps. So just to be able to compete against a player like him and be a few shots away from beating him and his team to go to a championship is something I will always remember.
Jayson Tatum
I want to win the title and defend it around the world and have it seen on ‘Total Divas.’ I want the NXT Championship to be worldwide, so everybody knows what it is.
Tyson Kidd
I’ve been very fortunate to be involved in all the Super Bowls, to see some World Series, to cover heavyweight championship fights; I’ve been to the Olympics and seen every sporting event there is.
Will McDonough
I want the belt. I’m focused on the belt, I’m focused on the world championship belt.
Jimi Manuwa
Sometimes fans… they want more and more and more, and they think you win a national championship every year. It doesn’t work that way.
Dabo Swinney
It's a long, hard, difficult process to make it to a na

It’s a long, hard, difficult process to make it to a national championship.
Hale Irwin
When Phil Taylor is in the field – no matter whether it’s tiddlywinks or the world championship at Alexandra Palace – he is the man to beat.
Eric Bristow
I won Formula Four. I went to New Zealand and won the Toyota Racing Series. I won the F3 European championship in 2016.
Lance Stroll
I find the quality of the officials in the Premier League so much better than the Championship.
Neil Warnock
I got a chance to host the ‘Late Late Show’ for two nights before they hired Craig Ferguson. I enjoyed it, but nothing can replace the thrill of calling an NFC championship game or a Super Bowl or a World Series.
Joe Buck
I want to qualify for the Tour Championship. Being a Georgia Tech grad, playing at East Lake would feel like home.
Matt Kuchar
In 2017, we won four races and we were a championship favorite. That’s something I’m really proud of and something I’m more proud of after spending a year at Hendrick.
Kyle Larson
An Olympic medal is much better than a world record, and so is a world championship or Commonwealth Games medal.
Chad le Clos
When I arrived at Manchester United, the club hadn’t won the league for 26 years, and then in my first year, they won the championship.
Peter Schmeichel
Every time you fight for a world championship fighters take pride… it’s a special moment to be a main event for a world title fight.
Rory MacDonald
A team championship doesn’t happen because three people score 10s, it happens because all the guys score well. In my opinion, everyone deserved 10s, we’re all 10s on this team.
Mitch Gaylord
After doing boxing a little bit, I knew that I wanted to achieve what the other boxers were achieving: the championship and whatever comes with the championships.
Gegard Mousasi
I went to Holland and had a good season where I learned a lot about a different type of football. And then going to the Championship. We all know what that’s like, how tough it is. And that added a different part to my game.
Mason Mount
I was making a film on Muhammad Ali in 1964, and I went to Miami to film everything around the fight for the world championship with Sonny Liston. I had the good luck of flying down to Miami, and there was one empty seat, and the guy sitting next to this empty seat was Malcolm X.
William Klein