Boris Spassky Quotes
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I came from the bottom. Now I'm the main event and UFC champion.
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No one expected me to become a champion.
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There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.
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I'm a professional world champion. Of course if you're a world champion, you're working harder than everybody else. You're making the commitment, and you're making the sacrifices. If it were easy, everybody would be able to do it. Everybody would be able to be world champion, but everybody can't be. Everybody doesn't have it in them.
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Dan Henderson has been a fighter for a long time, and he's been a champion in many different organizations.
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I'm a big champion of people doing things outside the system.
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I'm gonna live my life the correct way, and I'm gonna be a champion the kids look up to and hopefully aspire to be like.
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Who would have ever thought that, within a couple months of getting into the WWE, that I'd be wrestling in the main event for the world championship? Then, nine months after getting here, actually being the world champion.
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My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We're from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers.
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Once you become an Olympic champion, you are expected to win all the time.
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I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.
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As a champion and one of the best fighters in the world, guys should always step up to the plate and want to fight Jon Jones.
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Once a champion, always a champion.
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For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I'm working on it.
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I never really felt I had the same respect as my male team-mates. My opinion wasn't worth as much. I used to sit quietly in meetings and not say anything, as I knew my opinions would be disregarded. And that's after I had become Olympic champion and multiple world champion.
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I was a world champion on the trampoline at an international level, and gymnastics competitor.
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I've had an angel on my shoulder all my life.
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I will never be an insider. I want to be the champion of people who don't have insiders and lobbyists supporting them.
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I had been thinking, 'I've got to win because I'm Olympic champion'; actually, no, it's, 'I'm an Olympic champion for life,' I can just enjoy the rest.
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I have no great urge to be minister of this or minister of that, but instead would feel incredible blessed to have the opportunity to be a champion for a constituency and fight for their cause.
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It gives evolutionary biologists great status if they champion competition and the economists have to consult them. The economists have to consult the evolutionary biologists, because they are the ones who invented the idea of competition. It comes from the field of evolution.
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After certain ups and downs, a person does change, and I have changed for good.
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You gotta be able to take criticism if you want to be anything close to great. Even if it's not true. You use that as an advantage for yourself. You can use that negative energy and turn that into an energy that drives you to be something more than you thought you could be. That's one thing I did.
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Recently I saw Kasparov and he looked to me as still young and potent champion.
