I'm 31 years old and I want to be part of a championship team before my career is over.
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.
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 so every year, that's been the thing that's motivated me. . . .
The ideal way to win a championship is step by step.
How about that amigo? I just come over to see my friends and I win ze bloody championship.
I want to play for a championship team. I want to win a championship.
I want to win championships.
When I was 12, I had a coach tell me I would never be a championship pitcher. That devastated me. I was crushed.
I would tell players to relax and never think about what's at stake. Just think about the basketball game. If you start to think about who is going to win the championship, you've lost your focus.
I'll be too old to face a difficult championship as the one in America will surely be.
You're measured by championships no matter what.
I want to win a championship and to win the Indy 500 makes me want it so much more.
I guess it's good in a sense that it stops any of it from happening, but now you're telling me if it's Game 7 of the NBA Finals and a guy has a chance to make a play he's going to be like, 'Well, do I want this $10,000 or do I want a championship?'
We want to get another one.
I honestly didn't even know who the coach was when I was coming to New York. I just wanted to win a championship; I didn't even know who was coaching. I didn't care. It could have been Aunt Jemima. They could have had the syrup coaching. I was coming here regardless. I just wanted to win a championship here.
Each championship is unique and special.
I think you can get too focused on the championship and forget how rewarding it is to be part of a team.
I just love playing in major championships.
When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.
They're fighting for the championship, that's not a coincidence: I believe they have developed as a team. They've become much stronger, the squad is more balanced. And they still play the way Arsenal always play. They want to have the ball, they like playing it short, and they have outstanding individuals.
