Championship Hopes Quotes

The West is tough. Great teams. Great records, top to bottom.

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.

I had a sense when I took the job that the 1976-77 Trail Blazers could be very good. We had made a lot of positive roster changes, but it wasn't until I had the team in training camp that I realized that this team could be special. Midway through that season, I felt we had a chance to win it all.

We felt like when we went into last year we had a pretty good chance to win the championship from the previous year with the fall we put together. We've got the same everything now, so I think we can come back and be as strong this year.

Being the number one seed, you're thinking you don't want to lose in the second round.

Winning the championship becomes more difficult every year.

Something about the WSL is that the margins for error are very small. In the Premier League you can get away with losing a couple of games, but the women's league is so short and the leaders tend to set the bar so high that if you lose a couple of games your title hopes are over.

To be able to get a football team that's capable of competing for world championships, you always got to get a little bit lucky, but you got to have all phases to win it all.

We're trying to be that franchise that year-in and year-out is competing for a championship.

The Miami Dolphins have to be taken seriously. Here's a team that seems to be jelling.

Every year you suit up, you play for a championship. Some years, some teams... it was very few times I think I played on that realistically had a chance.

Every team that goes into training camp thinks they're a Super Bowl contender.

I knew before I arrived that the pressure at a club that challenges for the title grows quickly. The season is long; we'll become stronger with every game.

Our goal is a title. With LeBron, we are in 'win now' mode.

You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October.