Listen, I could have won the World Championship. Obviously if I had the chance to do it all again I would do things differently. But then would I have still wanted to play?
That’s the one regret I have in all the years that I’ve played professional sports, that I didn’t win a championship in the N.F.L. And that’s why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.
My job is to come out and help build a championship team.
If I’m going to win a championship, I need to run top-five every week. I don’t need to win every week.
What can you say to someone like me? When you’ve got 19 world championship wins, it’s almost like you’re cursed because you’re too good.
Game 7 of a Championship Series sucks the emotion out of a player, particularly if you have to stroll home a loser when it’s over.
As an outsider, when you think of Indiana, you think about a place that not only has championships but a championship tradition.
No world championship has been easy for me.
I won player of the year and players’ player, two cups and two championship medals, had a great time.
I’ve been on a team that won the world championship of barbecue. But barbecue’s interesting, because it’s one of these cult foods like chili, or bouillabaisse. Various parts of the world will have a cult food that people get enormously attached to – there’s tremendous traditions; there’s secrecy.
I won a robotics championship when I was 13.
I absolutely think I have the ability to be a world-class athlete and make a team. But even if I never make another world championship team or Olympic team, I think there are so many things I can say about the sport that can really excite me and bring me a lot of motivation in the day to day.
A lot of times late in your career, you don’t have a chance to win a championship.
If you know you’re just fighting for the money and you’re not fighting for the championship, you’re going to lose, so I thought, ‘It’s time for me to quit.’
You don’t even have to win a championship every year to draw the fans. You just have to show you’re really trying.
I think of how serious I treat my job and how much I want to be part of a championship environment and team – I sacrifice everything for it.
You have to kind of sustain a level of performance in the Championship to be able to come out of it at the end of the season.
We had some great years in Portland. We went to the finals twice. We won 63 games one year. You can’t tell me those weren’t championship teams.
It’s not always about winning a game or winning a championship.
Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don’t hit greens. We chip and putt.
I was a referee in TCW in Carrollton, Georgia, doing Turnbuckle Championship Wrestling, and it was 1,000 degrees in there, and it was completely sold out every Friday that we ran it. That was my dad’s independent promotion.
The World Championship gold was a surprise and took a lot of pressure off in terms of qualifying for Rio, but I still need more points, and winning in Manchester would be massive for me.
Any game in the Championship is going to be difficult.
My proudest moments are beating Ferrari for the World Championship in 1965, and working with Ford to win Le Mans in 1966 and 1967.
I won the World Championship as a novice. They’re strong words and most people probably won’t like that but I couldn’t care.
Realistically you can’t win no championship with three white guys because the foot speed is too slow.
The first win came very quick, and I didn’t know what it meant to win a major championship. I was a teenager, I was very young. I didn’t know what I was doing. I just needed some time to get settled in on the tour.
Winning a championship in Milwaukee, it’s not about my other business. It’s about bringing the notoriety to a great city.
I want to finish my career as a Dolphin and win a championship here. That’s what they brought me here for and that’s what I came to do.
It was my proudest moment as a manager when England drew 0-0 with Italy in Rome to qualify for the World Cup finals. Fifteen years later, the stakes are equally high for both countries as they go head-to-head for a semi-final place at the European Championship.
I’m sorry that I haven’t won the PGA Championship. That would be something that would have pleased me very much. I suppose when I look back, I have a lot of reasons and excuses for not having won the PGA.
One World Championship is not enough. Probably eight is not enough. I’ve set a target of 10 and I’d like between eight and 10.
I receive huge support from Irish and British sports fans alike and it is greatly appreciated. Likewise I feel I have a great affinity with the American sports fans. I play most of my golf in the U.S. nowadays and I am incredibly proud to have won the U.S. Open and U.S. PGA Championship in the last two years.
I want to have a lot to do with winning a championship or bringing a championship back to the city of Philadelphia.
We want to chase and seal the championship title. The decisive thing is to be at the top at the end of the season.
When I was coaching, I wasn’t worried about what I was making. I was worried about winning a championship.
My favorite champions is the 1995 championship with the Rockets. We were the sixth seed without home court advantage.
If you’re holding a championship that means something in the landscape of Japanese wrestling, you’re guaranteed to get a huge feature in almost every magazine – you might even be guaranteed a front page. That’s big.
Who am I, of course, to judge them, but the Premier League must urgently think about a rest period in a European Championship or World Cup year.
I’d been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn’t compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition.
I just want to get better, compete for the playoffs and have that lead to a championship.
Over the years, I pride myself on being more than just a spot-up shooter. I’ve gotta put the ball on the floor. I’ve got to post up and drive the ball from the perimeter and get to the basket – all the stuff I was actually doing that helped us win the championship.
In 1968, I fought and won the world middleweight karate championship by defeating the world’s top fighters. I then held that title until 1974, when I retired undefeated.
Sure, the Super Bowl is the greatest prize in our sport. But winning a national championship. That’s pretty darn great.
When you start using terms like national championship and playoffs, that’s very rare air.
Ronnie is the greatest player to have ever picked up a snooker cue. People have said that about me. But although I won 50 or so tournaments I never picked up the world championship. That was a little bit of a disappointment.
Seattle is very similar to Minneapolis. I like the culture; I like the people. I raced a bike and won a national championship on Lake Washington in 1977, so I’ve had a connection there for a long time.
Interest in a sport peaks during its championship season. That’s when even casual observers turn on their television sets, and lifelong fans are born.
The two championship years were that significant for me.
Every championship that Brazil participates, we have the responsibility to win – every time. So when we don’t win, it’s considered as a failure.
Winning the Indy 500 in 1995 and the Formula 1 championship in 1997 are very special moments for me, and the people in NASCAR show me respect for what I’ve achieved so far in my career.
I knew Funkasaurus wasn’t winning the World Championship, but I knew Brodus Clay could have.
Winning a championship was the best thing that has happened to me that I’ve been through, that I’ve seen in my life.
I had a chance to choose a couple different places and, well, I grew up – I was a small-town kid from Illinois, so No. 1, just trying to win a championship for my home state.
The one I was driving for at the time, Nissan, they pulled out after they won the championship, because it was costing millions of pounds to do a national championship and ok, that might be ok when you’re doing an international championship, but not for a national one.
I’m happy I’m able to leave a legacy behind. I’m happy I was able to win a championship. I have no regrets about nothing.
You want to be able to play for a championship, play for your city, play when it matters.
I really think just the honor of playing on five championship teams in seven years is the best thing.
Long periods can pass between the times you play for a championship, so you have to savor those moments.
From where started, I think it is too far down to try and win a championship at the end of the season, although we had a very good first race at Mondello and scored some good points.
I’m in this sport to win a championship.
I signed a contract with Phil Jackson, the man who has more championship rings, as far as I know, than anybody else. He was the best guy we thought we could find to run the New York Knicks.
There’s some great, great players that have played this game, in all sports, that haven’t won a championship.
