Champion Quotes
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We like to think of our champions and idols as superheroes who were born different from us. We don’t like to think of them as relatively ordinary people who made themselves extraordinary.
Carol S. Dweck
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We have to take our possessions and flee. I'm very good at that. I was the men's freestyle fleeing champion two years in a row.
Woody Allen
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I'm a five-time world champion in two different weight classes. Man, it's amazing.
Andre Ward
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If I wasn't a champion, I'd still be in jail. That makes me try very hard.
Amnat Ruenroeng
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Every decision he made, I think everybody bought into it. Whether you understood it or not, you bought into it. Because he's a champion. He's won five of these or something like that, so you've got to trust a guy that's been here before and his view for our team.
Stephen Curry
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I am the heavyweight champion of the world, and the greatest heavyweight you have seen for a long while. With Tyson on the card, it is definitely an added bonus because Lewis-Tyson on the same card would be a great doubleheader. This is what the fans want to see.
Lennox Lewis
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You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.
James J. Corbett
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1988 Olympic Champion Brian Boitano was famous for doing a Lutz with one arm over his head. And I wanted to build on that.
Adam Rippon
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Getting released in 2014 was the best thing that happened to me because I got to regain my focus, regain my pride, and come back as the best-conditioned athlete there is in WWE, which ultimately led me to become the single greatest WWE champion.
Jinder Mahal
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Yes, I am the Olympic champion, but this is not the end of it. I want all the gold that there is out there, everything that exists in figure skating. In all events, in all competitions.
Adelina Sotnikova
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A boy told me if he roller-skated fast enough his loneliness couldn't catch up to him, the best reason I ever heard for trying to be a champion. What I wonder tonight pedaling hard down King William Street is if it translates to bicycles. A victory! To leave your loneliness panting behind you on some street corner while you float free into a cloud of sudden azaleas, pink petals that have never felt loneliness, no matter how slowly they fell.
Naomi Shihab Nye
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There's a lot of ways to win a belt, but taking it from a champion is very important to me.
Andre Ward
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What London wants is a champion, a fighter for London. It doesn't want a patsy of George Osborne or David Cameron.
Sadiq Khan
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To become a champion, you must first think like a champion, and the best way to think like a champion is start talking like a champion. So start talking today like the champion you could be, and your thoughts and actions will follow.
Hal Elrod
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The Games were created for the glorification of the individual champion.
Pierre de Coubertin
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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
Billie Jean King
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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.
Gregory Walter Graffin Bad Religion
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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
Plato
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The Catholic Church [with Pope John Paul II] has lost its shepherd. The world has lost a champion of human freedom.
Chris Matthews
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Something taken off the page can sound great, I guess. Usually it doesn't. It seems like lately Pitchfork is trying to champion lyric writers more.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement
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There are 7 billion people in the world, but there's only one heavyweight champion of the world, and that's me.
Tyson Fury
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If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
Lou Holtz
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Building a better life for every child is a lot harder than becoming a world champion. Both goals take dedication and commitment.
Kim Yuna
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Anytime you fight a champion, you got to watch the tape closely and study him closely.
Andre Ward