Best 602 quotes in «champion quotes» category

I believe there is a champion in all of us.

I came to AS Roma to play in the Champions League

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 can be a champion and a public servant also.

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

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

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

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

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

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 need to be fixed anymore. That job's already been done. I love you, Annabelle. -Heath Champion-

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 want to be remembered as a beaten champion.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

If we in Asia want to speak credibly for Asian values, we must be prepared to also champion those ideals which are universal and belong to humanity as a whole...It is altogether shameful, if ingenious, to cite 'Asian values' as an excuse for autocratic practices and the denial of basic rights and civil liberties.

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

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

If you are going to be a champion, you must be willing to pay a greater price.

If you want to be the best you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.

If you want to be a champion you cannot have any kind of an outside negative force coming in to deflect you.

If you're the Olympic champion then they have to wait four more years to get you again.

If you want to become a World Champion you should avoid playing in Open tournaments.

If you want to take your mission in life to the next level, if you're stuck and you don't know how to rise, don't look outside yourself. Look inside. Don't let your fears keep you mired in the crowd. Abolish your fears and raise your commitment level to the point of no return, and I guarantee you that the Champion Within will burst forth to propel you toward victory.

I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him 20 minutes to pass the salt.

I get outside a lot. I am a huge champion of physical activity. It's so important.

I have always maintained that Iggy Pop is the Heavyweight Champion of Rock & Roll.

I have always watched the Race of Champions on TV every year and dreamed about participating one day. It's fantastic to be invited; I'm so happy.

I happen to be a three-time former WWF Champion and a hardcore legend, and I never had my own dressing room.

I have seen quite a few folk whom I know to be both fair minded and, as it happens,[Bob] Dylan fans, take up cudgels for this position. To them, it's not necessarily that Dylan doesn't merit the highest honour. It's that he doesn't merit this specific highest honour [Nobel prize], in the way a champion pole vaulter shouldn't be given a medal for the long jump. It is in this group that the Wahey!s are mainly to be found, firing off jests, or mock solemnly reciting Dylan's sillier lyrics as if these are entirely representative of his oeuvre.

I have not been one of those champions that have been fed perfect guys to make me look great.

I like fast cars. And I like champions.

I know that a good many champions have entertained the thought that the more they discourage youngsters, the longer they would reign. However, this theory never impressed me, and I always made it a point to give youths the benefit of my experience in bicycle racing.

I'm a champion for western civilization and, yes, our English language is a big part of it. It's a carrier of freedom. Wherever the English language has gone globally, freedom went with it. Science technology has always lifted up the standard of living on average of everybody on the planet. I want more of that, not less. There are civilizations that produce very little, if any. This western civilization is a superior civilization, and we want to share it with everybody.