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Jai Ganesh

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Championship Quotes

Championship Quotes

1. I don't think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship. - Kobe Bryant

2. If you learn to sell, it's worth more than a degree. It's worth more than the heavyweight championship of the world. It's even more important than having a million dollars in the bank. Learn to sell, and you'll never starve. - George Foreman

3. I think the players win the championship, and the organization has something to do with it, don't get me wrong. But don't try to put the organization above the players. - Michael Jordan

4. 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. - Bobby Fischer

5. The joy I get from winning a major championship doesn't even compare to the feeling I get when a kid writes a letter saying: 'Thank you so much. You have changed my life.' - Tiger Woods

6. The only thing 'championship' about Wimbledon is its prestige. - John McEnroe

7. 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. - Chuck Norris

8. 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. -  Michel Patini

9. I'll be too old to face a difficult championship as the one in America will surely be. - Diego Maradona

10. I really believe that every game of international cricket should have some sort of meaning and some sort of context to it - so the World Test Championship, the World One-Day League are all really, really important opportunities to the game. - Andrew Strauss

11. In the longer term we have got to learn how to bowl on flat pitches if England are to head the ICC Championship table. - Nasser Hussain

12. When I was a kid, my big hero was the number 10 of Flamengo and not the number 10 of Santos. His name was Dida. We didn't have much knowledge about the championship in Sao Paolo or in the south of Brazil. We just knew about the championship in Rio because I am from there. But Pele played for the national team and was a hero. - Zico

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