I play basketball to win a championship. That championship is everything to me. And that's what gets people to buy in to your brand - being a winner.
I want to have a lot to do with winning a championship or bringing a championship back to the city of Philadelphia.
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.
My family's a huge fan of 'Lord of the Rings.' My dad probably preaches from 'Lord of the Rings' as much as he does the Bible.
Well, I think any national championship is an extremely important championship to play in.
Learn what not to expect. Irish catholic they get sh**** little rings. Irish women get crappy rings. Baptist get the worst because they get the rings under water. When it comes up, it's garbage. Jewish, big rings. Episcopalian big rings. Italians-the best, because they get them off of dead people, and second wives get the biggest rings of all.
I've always won. I've won the state championship, national championship, all that stuff.
The goal is to win a championship. Every team enters the season with the goal to win the championship, but realistically, there are five or six teams with a realistic shot at winning a championship.
Knowing that you're all in for a championship and you have that mindset and feel throughout the group. Every day it's working towards something. That's an exciting feeling to know when you walk in the gym, or in the weight room, it's for a championship.
In boxing, it just seemed to me from the time I was a very small child, we have a peculiarly civilized form in that boxers don't screech and holler. They don't use weapons. When the bell rings, they fight; when the bell rings again, they stop.
After 'The Fellowship of the Ring,' the films that followed it, instead of having their own unique aesthetic, they all wanted to be 'Lord of the Rings' as opposed to learning from 'Lord of the Rings.'
Every time we play, we want to win, that's for sure. It may be the World Championship, the Olympics, the NBA Championship or the South American Championship, but we always want to win.
What I enjoy most about 'The Lord of the Rings' is that extended cut. To be able to sit there on a Sunday afternoon and watch 'The Lord of the Rings' from beginning to end is pretty fun.
Generally speaking, ROH championship matches are hard fought and grueling, and the fans are really into it. The ROH Championship means a lot to me for those reasons.
I hadn't watched 'Lord of the Rings' - I'm gonna get so much flack for this, but I hadn't watched 'Lord of the Rings' when I started watching 'Game of Thrones.'
The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air. It rings to announce endings and beginnings. And it rings because there is fresh promise and wonder in the skies.
Lord of the Rings is a good thing for us because it opened the door for the genre in general. Ursula Le Guin's stories are very different from Lord of the Rings.
But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold more innocent could one have asked for?
The four rings on my wedding finger are all very significant - my wedding ring, my mum's wedding ring and the engagement rings of my granny and mother-in-law.
I always wear at least five rings on my fingers - I have these knuckle rings I really like.
When I won the United States Championship at Hell in a Cell, it was awesome. It was my first championship ever in WWE, so it's a really cool moment for me.
I went through ups and downs as a young player dealing with criticism and things of that nature. To finally win that first NBA championship, it was definitely a relief of a lot of pressure and frustration we dealt with as a team. It was great to bring a championship to the city of Chicago.
Our dad made everything competitive for me and brother. It always was a world championship, a national championship, Big 10 championship. It was always at stake in everything we did.
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 three banners I want to hang - ACC regular championship, ACC tournament championship, and, of course, the national championship.
What does perfection look like to me? Championship rings
I play basketball to win a championship. That championship is everything to me. And thats what gets people to buy in to your brand - being a winner.
A lot of people talk about the Fab Five, and they were wonderful, one of the best teams you'll ever see in college basketball. But the '89 team is the best one to ever play at Michigan in my opinion because they won the national championship. Winning a championship is winning a championship.
Don't be afraid to pile on the midi rings! I like to play around with metals and pair delicate rings with chunkier ones.
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.'
It looks like our defense is quite a bit better than it has been in the last two years, ... If we can keep it up and stay at least in the middle of the league, that would be significant. We haven't ordered any championship rings yet; two games doesn't make a season. I love the Colorado air. I love the game, the competition, the show.
I wanted to win an SEC championship and a national championship. Those are the main goals.
Winning the world championship in '66 was really the pinnacle of the whole thing, because to win a championship with an Australian made engine was a fantastic feather in our cap.
I think being a championship-contending team, you have to have a championship-level coach to take you over the top.
Before we can talk about a championship, we have to practice like a championship team.
The WWE Championship is the greatest championship in the history of this sport. It has the most history of anything.
I'm not going to go fight the best guys in the world without getting championship fights or championship money; it makes no sense.
I don't buy it is all about the rings because there are a lot of guys that got rings that can't play a lick. They happened to be on the bench with some great players, so I don't buy into that totally.
There are far more important things in life than making a putt or missing a putt or winning a championship or losing a championship.
Lord of the Rings is a good thing for us because it opened the door for the genre in general. Le Guin's stories are very different from Lord of the Rings.
My eventual goal is to win a championship. And before I retire, I just want to win a championship. That's it.
I can't be No. 1 with an MVP trophy. I could be No. 1 with the championship ring and the championship trophy on my fireplace.
You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings.
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.
I want to win four or five championship rings. That's how I dream. I dream big.
To say someone is the greatest, I just don't want championships to define that greatness. Because under that theory, Robert Horry is one of the five or six best basketball players ever - he has seven championship rings. We know that not to be true.
Honestly, to me, the WWE championship and the Universal championship are the same thing. They're the top championships on the respective brands.
I wanted to go the NBA and win a championship because I've never seen a grown man cry the way Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan cried when they won a championship.
Our goal is to win the conference championship and go to the playoff and win the national championship and we recruit with that attitude.
I like really tiny rings, midi rings, and little bracelets that have a charm on them.
I just can't put the pressure on of winning a championship, winning a championship, because then I'd never be able to sleep.
I would definitely line up for 'The Lord of the Rings.' I'm a huge 'Lord of the Rings' geek.
I think winning a championship, for me, it put things in perspective. You can either be a great player on a so-so team, or you can be a role player on a championship team, or, in an extreme case, a great player on a championship team.
I might not have a conference championship or a national championship as a head coach, but I had the recruiting factor.
When Paul Brown talked contract, the championship game was part of it. We took the championship game for granted.
We get three of the Ball boys on the Lakers together, and we gonna go championship, championship, championship, championship, championship.
I think the biggest thing I want to learn from Kevin Garnett, with him having a ring, is how do I become a championship player? How do I see how a championship team looks like? How do I use myself to be a championship contributor?
You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also by his desires.
I know what a championship locker room looks like, what a championship team requires.
'Lord of the Rings' was going on; like, my college years were the years of 'Lord of the Rings,' an awesome time to be in film school.
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