Best Championship Proverbs
427 Championship quotes by 299 unique authors
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I think it's just a coincidence that the North American teams are out. Most of us here have been playing in North America for a…
— Daniel Alfredsson
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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…
— Mike Tyson
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You can be the best person in the league but if you don't win championships, something's missing.
— Terrell Davis
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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…
— Michel Patini
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Playing black, I put great stake in the Ruy Lopez: I liked it, feel it, and understand it; in matches with Hjartarson and Timman it…
— Anatoly Karpov
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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…
— Olga Korbut
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Just reading about the various opinions concerning the conduct of the recent championship matches convinces me that the only thing to which two chessplayers could…
— Arpad Elo
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Growing up I wasn't the richest, but I had a rich family in spirit. Standing here with 19 championships is something I never thought would…
— Serena Williams
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I wanted to be like Nolan Ryan. I didn't want to be like Pete Gray...And I don't want kids to be like me because I…
— Jim Abbott
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If you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.
— Michael Jordan
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Give me about 10 years, I'm going to run for President. If I can squeeze in an NBA championship before that, I'll do it.
— Will Smith
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It's still one of the proudest moments in my career boxing at Madison Square Garden. Some fighters who have won titles and championships have never…
— Ricky Hatton
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What does perfection look like to me? Championship rings
— Kobe Bryant
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Looking at the championship-winning quarterbacks, Edwards remembered their particular talents: Steve Young: Here's a guy that is really a talent. He's the best athlete we…
— LaVell Edwards
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I am looking forward to continue my career in Orange & Blue and to work with Phil Jackson, a champion who builds championship teams. Madison…
— Carmelo Anthony
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A championship contender in the early twentieth century needed charisma and a knack for cultivating sponsorship, and Rubinstein was the epitome of the shy and…
— Garry Kasparov
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Champions are not generated from the championship. Champion is generated from something they have in them, desires, dreams, and visions.
— Muhammad Ali
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A team doesn't win the championship if its players are working from different agendas.
— John C. Maxwell
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The heartbeat of a football team is the quarterback position and I think everyone who has any intelligence about the game understands you must have…
— Ron Jaworski
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I can honestly say that two weeks after the national championship year, I'd forgotten about it and started laying the groundwork for spring practice. And…
— LaVell Edwards
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Chess strength in general and chess strength in a specific match are by no means one and the same thing.
— Garry Kasparov
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For me right now I think being the world number one is a bigger deal than being the world champion because I think it shows…
— Magnus Carlsen
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All I expect are wins and to get pleasure from the game. And if someone thinks something about me, if someone's dissatisfied with something... that's…
— Magnus Carlsen
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I am pleased that in a match for the World Championship I was able to conduct a game in the style of Akiba Rubinstein, where…
— Boris Gelfand
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The chess world is obligated to organize a match between the champion of the world and the winner of this Carlsbad tournament - indeed, this…
— Aron Nimzowitsch
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