Best 602 quotes in «champion quotes» category

His teaching became a turning point in chess history: it was from Steinitz that the era of modern chess began. The contribution of the first world champion to its development is comparable with the great scientific discoveries of the 19th century.

History will remember Nelson Mandela as a champion for human dignity and freedom, for peace and reconciliation.

History provides many examples of democracy crushed by people who said to be the champion of "genuine democracy" and "the people's real meaning". The realization about this may lead us to a defence position that conceals that democracy is an extraordinarily demanding way of rule. It must constantly find new ways to revitalize, to reach out to people and make them active. Dictatorships offers a machinery of obedience, closed and externally well-oiled. Democracy is based on fairness, openness and pulsating life. Therefore it must constantly be won again.

Hopefully, we can build a rivalry and we'll be able to do this a lot. Make a legacy, then retire champions.

How could the USA champion individual freedom in the world generally while denying it to an important minority in its own country.

Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion.

I achieved something once again, I think we all want to put a mark on life. I dream, and my dreams always come true. I dreamed I was the heavyweight champion of the world. I am the heavyweight champion of the world.

I always loved reading. I always was the spelling bee champion. I always loved words. I always wanted to know what they meant, why you used them, who first said them. I was always interested in that.

I always try to be a champion of social change and anything that brings awareness to a really dire situation.

I am an unstoppable killing machine. I am the greatest champion that ever walked the face of this planet.

I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.

I am a champion of trans-Atlantic relations and I do not believe there is any other option available to us than working closely together with America - including Canada. There is no other alliance option, but the same is true for the U.S.

I am a champion who makes an impact.

I am he / Who champions total liberty - / Intolerance being, ma'am, a state / No tolerant man can tolerate.

I am confident that you brothers in parliament will champion the will of the people over that of the occupier.

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.

I am very proud to be featured, especially when you consider the outstanding champions who have had this honor. It is great company to be in.

I became the first ever Euro-continental champion in WWF history. Well, besides D-Lo Brown, but he doesn't count.

I believe there is a champion in all of us.

I came back to Louisville after the Olympics with my shiny gold medal. Went into a luncheonette where black folks couldn't eat. Thought I'd put them on the spot. I sat down and asked for a meal. The Olympic champion wearing his gold medal. They said, "We don't serve niggers here." I said, "That's okay, I don't eat 'em." But they put me out in the street. So I went down to the river, the Ohio River, and threw my gold medal in it.

I came to AS Roma to play in the Champions League

I can be a champion and a public servant also.

I can't even imagine what it's like and right now I'm like in shock, I can't believe that I'm Olympic Champion.

I can get a title shot any time I want to. They know I can beat 110% of the champions out there right now. I just have to be motivated. Most of them are going to be trying to not give me a shot.

I could really care less about the TV and the fame, it's all about that lifetime achievement of becoming a world champion.

I'd like to be remembered as someone who was a champion of peace and human rights.

I decided to be a smarter fighter. I already knew I was tough, so if I was smart and tough, I was more likely to be a champion.

I didn't aspire to be a good sport; "champion" was good enough for me.

I did not want to be a Champion growing up, just a fast skater.

I do not like Andre Ward. I want to destroy this guy as a boxer, as a champion. For me he is not a champion, he's a fake champion.

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.

I don't care now if I ever win a match in my life again. Whatever I do in my life, wherever I go, I'm going to be always Wimbledon champion.

I don't need a belt to make me. I make the belt. I feel great and that's all that matters. I'm still heavyweight champion of the world.

I don't want to be remembered as a beaten champion.

I do practice martial arts, more as a recreational thing, but a lot of my friends have been heavyweight champions the in mixed martial arts world.

I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them

I don't need to be fixed anymore. That job's already been done. I love you, Annabelle. -Heath Champion-

I feel that when you are a world champion, your title has to be taken away from you.

If Stone Cold was to become champion, as of now, that would be a public-relations corporate nightmare.

I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks or a champion college footballer suddenly confronted by Wall Street and a business suit, his days of glory shrunk to a little gold cup on his mantel with a date engraved on it like the date on a tombstone.

I firmly believe that deep in their soul everyone has a champion that can overcome obstacles and do great things.

If I wasn't a champion, I'd still be in jail. That makes me try very hard.

If the Olympic champion doesn't know how to jump quad, I don't know. Now it's not figure skating. Now it's dancing.

I felt great! I'm ready to roll tonight!

If I'm to accomplish my goal of being the world champion I've got to be better; so every day I come in here with a goal, and that's to get better.

If I want to win a title I have to beat the champion myself, I don't have teammates inside the ring.

If she gets the jitters now, then she isn't the great champion that she is.

If the girls and boys have talent and feel like working on themselves, they can become champions.

If the Humanists wish to be champions of reason, they should consider the following: just as they would not admit mystics into their camp, since no rational discussion is possible with men who substitute supernatural revelations for rational evidence-so they cannot admit advocates of force into their camp, because no rational discussion or agreement is possible with men who substitute guns for rational persuasion.

If the WWF was about talent, Taka Michinoku would have been WWF champion