Jack Ramsay Quotes

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.

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.

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

Fifty-nine or 54 or 52 or 49 wins isn't going to mean a whole lot. What's going to mean a whole lot to me, our organization, and our fans is how we perform in the playoffs and how deep a run we can make, and that's what we're setting our sights on.

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.

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 have a good team, and I think we'll have a good season this year.

Peyton Manning is doing things that I think no other quarterback in the history of the league has done at the line of scrimmage... I just think they are a team right now that's got a real chance to run the table.

We should have won the pennant that year. It was the best club I was ever on.

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 consistency at that position to be a championship team.

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

If we can't have a great team and a winning team, then I will not be an N.B.A. owner very long.

I think there's a lot of different ways to win. You've seen teams that win championships with a super-duper star like Kobe Bryant. Those championship teams with Michael Jordan certainly had a great, great player.

When you come off a losing season - one of the worst seasons in all of basketball - and get guys like Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett, two perennial All-Stars, we felt like we had a championship team.

I haven't been on too many winning teams - in Oakland, we were in first place most of the year, and it was pretty fun, pretty exciting.

There's a reason the Panthers have been successful over the years and Cam Newton's a big factor in that equation. He does a great job.

You can't compare regular season to postseason.

The thing I really want to do is make the All-Star team and have an All-Star season. If I do that, then I know my team is going to be winning.

I think being a championship-contending team, you have to have a championship-level coach to take you over the top.

Sometimes fans... they want more and more and more, and they think you win a national championship every year. It doesn't work that way.

Early in the year, you never know how teams are going to be.

Expectation builds the one thing you must have when you get to a new stadium when it's built, which is a winning team.

I think when you're a very good defensive team - it's very rare a team wins a championship when you're not a very good defensive team.

Of course my goal at Duke was to win the national championship, but we were shorthanded, and lost one of our big guys that was very important to the team. By the end of the season we only played about six guys. But we tried our hardest and did our best and overall had a successful season.

You simply can't judge a team's football from the country it comes from.