Champion Quotes
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One of my goals is definitely to motivate the youth towards sports. Whether it's arts or academics, I just want to let them know that anything is possible. To think that I grew up as a WWE fan and now I'm a WWE champion proves that through hard work anything really is possible.
Jinder Mahal
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No great player blundered oftener than I done. I was champion of the world for twenty-eight years because I was twenty years ahead of my time. I played on certain principles, which neither Zukertort nor anyone else of his time understood. The players of today, such as Lasker, Tarrasch, Pillsbury, Schlechter and others have adopted my principles, and as is only natural, they have improved upon what I began, and that is the whole secret of the matter.
Wilhelm Steinitz
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I feel that when you are a world champion, your title has to be taken away from you.
Bonnie Canino
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Flair was a tricky guy to work with when I worked with Ric. When he was champion, we had much better matches, and the moment the title got switched, we seemed to screw up my match every night.
Bret Hart
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Anybody can quit. Only a real champion and a person of character and strength can keep going and refuse to give up.
Sadie Robertson
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A lot of people are successful in this business because of a catchphrase or athletic ability or charisma or wrestling; Ric Flair is the personification of all of those things, much like his daughter Charlotte, as she is already a multiple-time champion after only a few years in the WWE.
Dolph Ziggler
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That was the fight. I knew that I had done something that no man had been able to do to a champion.
Thomas Hearns
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People think they can take a pill and become a champion. But the harder you work, the luckier you get. You have to work a move hundreds or thousands of times.
Gene LeBell
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It's good that the first half of the speech emphasized freedom, because George W. Bush has been the global champion for freedom. As he said, if we don't fight tyranny it will not leave us alone in peace.
Ernest Istook
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I'm the nap champion.
Leslie Odom, Jr.
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At the Olympics, there was a little bit of unfair judging, but I tried not to be disappointed and to do my best. I think the audience respected and loved what I did at the Olympics, and that helped me become the world champion in 1997.
Olena Vitrychenko
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This was a theme of Sen. Akaka's career - to advocate for people who did not have power, for people who were vulnerable. He was a champion for the federal government employees who continue to this day to be a punching bag for some.
Brian Schatz
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A guy who's not a champion can't talk too much about championships, can he?
Draymond Green
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The mission I set out on in the beginning - to become heavyweight champion of the world, undisputed, lineal champion - you could say that mission is complete.
Lennox Lewis
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No matter what industry you're in, there will be naysayers. So you have to be your own champion.
Chad Hurley -
I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them.
Armand Assante
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I lost three times in my career. Losing to Holmes I could deal with, because I lost to a true champion.
Gerry Cooney
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Because I was a champion swimmer in Canada, they're always trying to get me in the water in movies! I've drawn the line now with this film. No more water!
Estella Warren
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To be a champion you must live like one.
George Bernard Shaw
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Persistence is the soul of a champion.
Alan Webb
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There never was a champion who to himself was a good loser. There's a vast difference between a good sport and a good loser.
Earl Blaik
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Since I was a boy of five or six, I had it in my mind I would be a world boxing champion.
Joe Frazier
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Research confirms that both Republican and Democratic women are more likely than their male counterparts to initiate and fight for bills that champion social justice, protect the environment, advocate for families, and promote nonviolent conflict resolution.
Dee Dee Myers
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The thing that I champion is sustainability. My terror is that suddenly we see it as a luxury, not an essential. That's a danger.
Kevin McCloud