Champion Quotes

• I quite enjoy sport, and I'm now an Olympic champion. It's a bit weird, isn't it?

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Weird
  • Enjoy
  • Champion

• I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.

  

  Floyd Patterson
  • History
  • Down
  • Champion

• A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol.

  

  Jack Dempsey
  • Help
  • Never
  • Champion

• My wrestling dream was to become a Division I national champion. That was my No. 1 dream - not Olympics, not money. Just winning that tournament.

  

  Jon Jones
  • Money
  • Dream
  • Winning

• I'm definitely an active champion. I'm looking forward to defending my belt as many times as possible.

  

  Deontay Wilder
  • Champion

• I would love to end my career as World Champion.

  

  Jeff Hardy
  • World
  • Career
  • Champion

• Going through the pain barrier, that's what makes the muscles grow. There's this pain, this aching, and going on and on and on. That's what divides a champion from a non-champion - having the guts to go through the pain barrier.

  

  Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • Pain
  • Champion

• What is clear is that business leaders must commit to champion change - to be transparent about their goals for change, to align their incentives systems to drive the change, and to make sure their work environments are flexible in a way that allows men and women who choose to work to be able to achieve all of their potential.

  

  Beth Brooke
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• The toughest part of the whole damn sport is the X Factor. To me, the X factor is your soul. It's your courage. It's your unique driving force. Suppose for a moment that you and I were running. Suppose that in every possible way-physical and mental-we were identical. Which one of us would emerge as the champion?

  

  Brad Alan Lewis
  • Force
  • Sport
  • Suppose

• I don't want to go back to WWE and burn out within four or five months, and having another run as TNA world champion would feel just as good.

  

  Jeff Hardy
  • World
  • Good
  • Champion

• If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart.

  

  Chris Evert
  • Heart
  • Champion

• Winning the Olympics was an amazing feeling, but afterwards, it was a bit like, 'What do I do now?' So I lost a bit of motivation going back into training and competitions; I had so much pressure on me. I kept thinking, 'I'm the Olympic champion. I can't lose' - being only 19 and having to deal with all that pressure.

  

  Jade Jones
  • Thinking
  • Feeling
  • Lost

• For your friends and family, you are always a champion, but for the media and sponsors, not until you show a spark. Making a champ is more important than celebrating one. I want to be there for youngsters and help them do their best.

  

  Gagan Narang
  • Important
  • Family
  • Friends

• You see yourself as something of a champion of the poor, don't you?" "No, just their doctor.

  

  K. J. Bishop
  • Yourself
  • Poor
  • Champion

• I think about Rio every day. Every day in training, it's something that drives me forward. I want to be Olympic champion.

  

  Lizzie Armitstead
  • Training
  • Champion

• There's a big difference between me and a real, legitimate working hand, or a world-champion rodeo cowboy. I play 'em, and I aspire to be like that, but those guys are tough.

  

  Luke Perry
  • World
  • Real
  • Hand

• Shave a gorilla and it would be almost impossible, at twenty paces, to distinguish him from a heavyweight champion of the world. Skin a chimpanzee, and it would take an autopsy to prove he was not a theologian.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • Champion

• Crossing the line and being world champion, I've always dreamt about it, and now I've done it. It's quite a surreal feeling, but obviously very special.

  

  Lizzie Armitstead
  • World
  • Done
  • Feeling

• I think a good MP is someone who cares for their community and becomes their champion, which is why I will make my home in any seat I am lucky enough to be selected for. Looks play no part in the equation, what matters is your ideas and connecting them to the electorate.

  

  Adam Rickitt
  • Good
  • Why
  • Home

• I never gave up, even when people told me I'd never make it; Never underestimate the heart of a champion.

  

  Kai Greene
  • People
  • Up
  • Heart

• And nor should you. A true champion dreams only of the arena.

  

  Crixus
  • Dreams
  • Champion
  • Arena

• As an Olympic champion gymnast, I have always stayed involved in my sport.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Always
  • Champion
  • Involved

• You talk about Shaq, I would put Tim Duncan in that same category. Mr. Fundamental, just kept things simple. He is a great teammate, a great player, and a great person. When you have those ingredients in a champion, you just want to be a part of that and have an opportunity to play with him.

  

  Jason Kidd
  • Great
  • Opportunity
  • Simple

• All my life, I wanted to be champion.

  

  Jake LaMotta
  • Life
  • Champion

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