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A successful life is expensive; it will cost you something to become a champion.

As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions.

A true champion and athlete is never satisfied with their performance. You can always do more and always improve.

A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.

A true champion is not only formed in victory. To be defeated makes you learn.

A true champion is not judged by how much he or she is admired, but by how well they can stand at the face of adversity.

A true champion can adapt to anything.

Behind every champion is a team that prepared him to become that champion.

Become a champion like Stone Cold Steve Austin!

Being a 3-time Intercontinental champion doesn't make you a great wrestler, just like Larry King having 9 wives don't make him a great husband.

Being a champion and staying that way is the most difficult thing to deal with. Everyone sees you as a target. They want to bring you down.

Being a world champion is something I'm already proud of and can take for the rest of my life.

Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.

Be a pro. • Act like a champion. • Respond to adversity; don’t react. • Be on time. Being late means either it’s not important to you or you can’t be relied upon. • Execute. Do what you’re supposed to do when you’re supposed to do it. Not almost. All the way. Not most of the time. All of the time. • Take ownership. Whatever it takes. No excuses, no explanations.

Because the American people champion liberty, more people in the world live free today than at any time in history. Yet, there is more to be done and it is America who will lead the way.

Becoming world champion is something I have worked at for my entire career. It doesn't matter to me that my first title shot is at a different weight. The opportunity is at super-middleweight and I am going to take it. But that doesn't mean I am forever going to be restricted to the super-middleweight division. I've still got a lot of work to do, a lot of unfinished business at middleweight.

Being a champion opens lots of doors—I'd like to get a real estate license, maybe sell insurance.

Being a champion and staying that way is the most difficult thing to deal with. Everyone sees you as a target. They want to bring you down. I should always train in order to be at a higher level. Other fighters are training hard as well. I have to be a step or more ahead.

Being the undisputed world champion is a relief. We instituted a unified chess title, I am the absolute world champion.

Be very strong... be very methodical in your life if you want to be a champion.

But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds.

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.

But the fact is that I wouldn't have won even a single Tour de France without the lesson of illness. What it teaches is this: pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

But who would force the soul tilts with a straw Against a champion cased in adamant

By no means because I am a World Champion will I ever stop learning and that’s the biggest thing that’s difficult for someone to see.

Carlsen came with a line that was not very theoretical, trying to challenge the World Champion to play chess. [...] But Anand proved that even this obscure line is something he has studied before, and it was Carlsen that was set back.

By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion

Champions are not generated from the championship. Champion is generated from something they have in them, desires, dreams, and visions.

Champions are built on a thousand invisible mornings.

Champions have no off-season.

Champions keep going when they don't have anything left in their tank!

Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege.

Champions have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.

Champions know that success is inevitable, that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it.

Check the records; there has never been an undisciplined person who was a champion. Regardless of the field of endeavor, you'll find this to be true.

Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.

Champions are champions not because they do anything extraordinary but because they do the ordinary things better than anyone else.

Champions are pioneers, and pioneers get shot at. The companies that get the most from champions, therefore, are those that have rich support network so their pioneers will flourish. This point is so important it's hard to overstress. No support systems, no champions. No champions, no innovations.

Champions behave like champions before they are champions

Champions don’t do extraordinary things. They do ordinary things, but they do them without thinking, too fast for the orther team to react. They follow the habits they’ve learned.

Champions are not the ones who always win races - champions are the ones who get out there and try. And try harder the next time. And even harder the next time. 'Champion' is a state of mind. They are devoted. They compete to best themselves as much if not more than they compete to best others. Champions are not just athletes.

Champions aren't made in the ring, they are merely recognized there. What you cheat on in the early light of morning will show up in the ring under the bright lights.

Champions come and go, but to be legendary you got to have heart, more heart than the next man, more than anyone in the world.

Champions do ordinary things better than everyone else.

Choose to make up for what you lack in innate ability with discipline, hard work, and good habits. Become a creature of champion habits.

Coffee, It's the life blood that fuels the dreams of champions!

Champions are propelled by desire, not compelled by fear

Champions get up when they can't.

Congratulations to the NBA champion Boston Celtics - they beat the Los Angeles Lakers by 39 points. Or as Hillary Clinton would say, "Too close to call.

Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions.