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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For inspiration I look to those great players who consistently found original ways to shock their opponents. None did this better than the eighth world champion, Mikhail Tal. The 'Magician of Riga' rose to become champion in 1960 at age twenty-three and became famous for his aggressive, volatile play.
Garry Kasparov -
There were momentary visitations. I was a visitor, not an inhabitant. I think I say that at the beginning of the book: "I have made visits to the earth in my body, but it's always been as a visitor."
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Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for the impossible, but do not let your path deviate from the quiet and steadfast insistence on full opportunities for your powers.
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Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.
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If you're not remarkable, you're invisible.
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Recently I saw Kasparov and he looked to me as still young and potent champion.
