When you win a championship, it is a great feeling, and you really don't want that feeling to go away.
Obviously it's always special having that first championship, but when you can go out and you're a car to beat every week, I think that's what classifies a great year.
If the path is taking me to a world heavyweight championship, that's great, but all I really strive for and care about is putting on the best matches I possibly can.
The idea of playing the point and leading a team to the NBA championship is what drove me to get up every day and work on my game as a kid.
Ultimately you want to optimize championship probability over some window. But if you literally take that to the logical extreme, you would be doing crazy stuff.
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.
This season is my most special and most cherished. All my focus is on getting that championship back here.
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.
If I were to have a match with Lita, I would make that a championship ladder match.
Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
I knew Funkasaurus wasn't winning the World Championship, but I knew Brodus Clay could have.
From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee, my intense training with my dad was always to credit.
To be a part of something special and compete for a championship is something that's not capable on every team.
I had to persevere because this was my life. This championship, this was the stuff I dreamt of all my life, and I wasn't gonna be denied.
My only drive was to be the best dancer in the world, but I never won the world championship.
Come on, everyone wants to win a championship, but a lot of players have had great careers without one. Sometimes it just doesn't happen for whatever reason.
Two beautiful women crashing and burning for the sake of the Women's Championship!!!
The list of guys who have held the ROH championship, that's an elite group of guys.
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.
I left Brazil very early, before reaching the top level of the Brazilian championship. That made a difference: I was not seen as a 'name' around the country.
Goals? I've achieved the main ones of winning the World Championship and being world number one.
David Nugent tore up the Championship but he’s gone to Portsmouth and he’s a fish up a tree
With the Cubs, they've gone so long without a World Series championship, they wanted to win every day. I want that too, but I didn't feel comfortable.
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.
The team which I led to the 1992 European Championship Finals is the only one in the history of the entire competition to have won every single one of its qualifying matches.
I thought long and hard about my future this past year and during the offseason, and I've decided 2015 will be the last time I compete for a championship.
Winning a championship, really - that's the main goal, so if you don't do that then you can't really say that you succeeded.
I have a great deal of respect for Coach Fitch. When we won the championship in '81, he was the main reason why we won. We were down and he never let us doubt ourselves.
When you're trying to build or change a culture, what do you do? I always say to take players from state championship teams because they only know one thing -- winning.
We just want to win the natty - the national championship - and that's starts with a team, not just one person.
I know the next level for me is to make my teammates better, to win a championship, and to where they have confidence that they can score 20 or 15 points a night and be consistent.
I had other proposals and I was talking to people but then I decided that staying at Ferrari would give me my best chance of winning the championship.
There's some great, great players that have played this game, in all sports, that haven't won a championship.
When the race to develop becomes more furious as the Championship progresses, the racing will get better too, improving the entire experience for the fans.
You know, I think the stats are out whoever won the Tour Championship never made it back the next year. There's a reason for that. It's hard. It's just tricky.
Championship teams are built on being prepared, playing unselfishly and being held accountable.
I know to win a championship, you're not going to do it alone. You're going to have to have a great supporting cast.
For us to be the team that got him that historic 10th championship is special for us.
I don't want to be cocky, but I want to win a championship and feel that with my team, I have the ability.
There's just a pit that develops in your stomach and doesn't go away. It's the championship pit and it's there.
Obviously, when I was playing in the Championship, I always dreamed about playing for England, putting on the jersey.
I have a world championship medal from 2014, but I can't find it. So I'm missing one. I think it's at my sister's house. I have to find it.
I feel like a lot of fans would like to see me with the heavyweight championship.
In a country that never wins anything: in Canada, if one of our athletes so much as makes the final in a World Championship, we declare a national holiday.
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.
The worst I encountered was Peter Manley talking behind me as I threw during our world championship quarter-final back in 2006.
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.
I don't think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship.
Champions are not generated from the championship. Champion is generated from something they have in them, desires, dreams, and visions.
If you go 72-11 and don't win (the championship), it doesn't mean anything. Actually it does. It means you've cheated and played an extra regular-season game.
I want to win four or five championship rings. That's how I dream. I dream big.
Actually, Magic and the Lakers beat Philadelphia for Magic's first NBA Championship.
I was trying to control myself because I wanted to just park the car and jump out and do cartwheels. The next dream is to win the world championship.
I admire Tim Duncan, because he put on his hard hat and said, 'I'm going to stick it out.' He was dedicated to one team and to winning a championship.
When I was a kid, the guy who was Intercontinental champion was the guy who was next in line for the World Heavyweight championship.
I want to qualify for the Tour Championship. Being a Georgia Tech grad, playing at East Lake would feel like home.
Money and all that stuff doesn't equal a ring, because you'll always be in the books as winning a championship and being on one of the best teams ever to play the game.
You want to win a championship, but you want to be considered one of the best of all time. All-Star. Hall of Fame.
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.
Who ever wins today will win the championship no matter who wins.
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