Best 602 quotes in «champion quotes» category

Although I have to say, it's become a lot harder for me since I won the world series because everyone wants to beat me. For example, bluffing is really tough now, because there's always someone who calls me on the off-chance that they'll then be able to say they read a world champion's bluff.

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. Sir Anthony Hopkins portrayal of me was adequate. I do believe that my sideburns were of substantially higher quality, however.

And here comes Mika Hakkinen, double world champion twice over.

Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.

As a champion, I can't fight against weak fighters.

As champions of green jobs, we're asking questions that progressives should like, like "How are we going to avoid baking the planet," and "How are we going to create jobs for ordinary Americans?" Meanwhile, we're offering solutions that conservative should like. I'm not calling for more welfare; I'm calling for more work.

An athlete must have ability to reach the top, but many who have ability and who do not live clean lives never have and never will be champions for obvious reasons.

Any man can do what he has to do. But doing it like you love it? That is what takes it to a whole different level. A champion does it like he loves it, even when he doesn't.

Any true champion can bounce back. That's what being a champion is: being able to deal with adversity and being able to bounce back.

As a professional journalist who nonetheless champions a 'people's' Internet, I am happy to compete against the thousands of amateur bloggers out there reporting and commenting on the same stories I do.

As far as I'm concerned, Scott Kalitta was already a legend, and he'll be one forever because he was a champion on the track and a champion off it.

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 can adapt to anything.

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 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.

Become a champion like Stone Cold Steve Austin!

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Champions are built on a thousand invisible mornings.

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.

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.

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

Champions have no off-season.

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 propelled by desire, not compelled by fear

Champions get up when they can't.

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.