Champion Quotes

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

  

  Chris Evert
  • Heart
  • Champion

• Where is he, the champion and the childOf all that's great or little, wise or wild;Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were thrones;Whose table earth - whose dice were human bones?

  

  Lord Byron
  • Great
  • Game
  • Earth

• I think that the World Champion should try to defend the quality of play more than anyone else.

  

  Boris Spassky
  • World
  • Quality
  • 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

• The Olympics is a special event and winning is very important. For me as a world record holder and world champion, the only thing I am missing is the Olympic gold medal and that is what I want to achieve in my career.

  

  David Rudisha
  • World
  • Important
  • Career

• We have to remind ourselves of this at every moment: that we are in a war, a cold war as they call it; a war where there is no front line, no continuous bombardment, but where the two adversaries - this tiny champion of the Caribbean and the immense imperialist hyena - are face to face and aware that one of them is going to end up dead in the fight.

  

  Che Guevara
  • Up
  • War
  • Cold

• 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

• All my life, I wanted to be champion.

  

  Jake LaMotta
  • Life
  • Champion

• I'm the guy who has everything it takes to be heavyweight champion of the world. It's not just about being great inside the ring: it's about being able to do great things outside of the ring. Not everyone has that. I love to be out there with the people.

  

  Deontay Wilder
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• It would be fine with me to have myself worked out of a job, but I'm not sure that - I'm not sure that there will be a champion movement in Congress to do that.

  

  Betsy DeVos
  • Job
  • Champion

• But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and say so.

  

  Donald Cargill
  • Die
  • Fool
  • Champion

• Olympic officials have disqualified a champion race walker after determining that he was doping. They disqualified him. The man said getting caught doping is almost as embarrassing as getting caught being a champion race walker.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Race
  • Champion
  • Olympic

• 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 turned pro as a 20-year-old, won a world title a year later, and remained a world champion ever since.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • World
  • Year
  • Champion

• Whatever work I have done in a very short span of time, like 'Balika Vadhu,' 'Kitchen Champion 4,' 'Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa,' and 'Bigg Boss 7,' has been great for me.

  

  Pratyusha Banerjee
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• I don't care about being the champ champ. I want to be the only consecutive 12-time defending champion in any mixed martial arts promotion.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • Time
  • Champion

• At a certain point, when I let go and was done - when I stopped and could say I was blessed and thankful to be a champion, when I finally enjoyed life from this different perspective - that's when I healed. Letting go healed me.

  

  Dominick Cruz
  • Life
  • Different
  • Done

• 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
  • World
  • Age
  • Inspiration

• He was WBC champion, I was mandatory. He had his opportunity to earn big money and defend against me, and he chose not to. It's as simple as that. He did not want to fight 'The Cobra', cos he knew he was probably going to get one of these (his fists) on the chin and it was going to be all over.

  

  Carl Froch
  • Opportunity
  • Simple
  • Fighting

• I love short track. I competed in short track, I was a world champion in 1986 but at that point in time it wasn't in the Olympic Games so I moved into long track. Short track is a blast to skate and it's a blast to watch.

  

  Bonnie Blair
  • Time
  • World
  • Long

• There are many people who could be Olympic champions. All-Americans who have never tried. I'd estimate more than 5 million people could have beaten me in the pole vault the years I won it... at least 5 million. Men that were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground trying to get over the bar.

  

  Bob Richards
  • People
  • Up
  • Men

• To have real success and roots in a society, there has to be a local champion, and hence we believe in identifying a local entrepreneur.

  

  Masayoshi Son
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Success

• He's got one of the best chins I've ever hit in my life. I was catching him and he was smiling at me, he was eating them. He's a great fighter, he'll be champion one day.

  

  David Haye
  • Fighter
  • Smiling
  • Catching

• 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

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