#champions

I've been in the league 12 years. To sit on the bench and complain about the way things were, that doesn't get anything done. I don't know. I'm playing for a championship and trying to make the playoffs. My effort has never changed. ↗

— Chris Webber

#anything #been #bench #championship #changed

People confuse being world No. 1 with winning a Major championship. ↗

— Lee Westwood

#championship #confuse #major #people #winning

Regaining the Champions Cup is not going to be easy. ↗

— Luis Figo

#cup #easy #going #regaining

They will sustain the constitution and laws and institutions of the United States, and be the champions of liberty and of that constitution when its integrity shall be threatened. ↗

— Lorenzo Snow

#constitution #institutions #integrity #laws #liberty

Nowadays it would be reasonable to have an annual world championship. ↗

— Boris Spassky

#championship #nowadays #reasonable #world #world championship

On the other hand, chess is a mass sport now and for chess organisers shorter time control is obviously more attractive. But I think that this control does not suit World Championship matches. ↗

— Boris Spassky

#championship #chess #control #does #hand

Conservatives are winning offices, and champions of big government are cleaning out their desks right now. ↗

— Rick Perry

#big government #champions #cleaning #conservatives #desks

People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings. so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#body #breakfast-of-champions #chemicals #human #kurt-vonnegut

Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#community #competition #giftedness #modern #printing-press

When hired three years ago, I willingly accepted the challenge of leading the Bulls back to the type of team this city richly deserves. I'm proud of the fact that each year the team has taken another step toward an NBA championship, and played with intense pride and determination. ↗

— Doug Collins

#ago #another #back #bulls #challenge