Top 100 A Champion Quotes
#1. A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
Billie Jean King
#2. There will never be another Mariano Rivera. He was a friend and a champion of a teammate. He really cared about the game of baseball, the way it was played, and whatever it took to win that night.
Jorge Posada
#3. I can sleep like a champion. I once slept through a smoke alarm going off. For three hours. In my bedroom.
Maureen Johnson
#4. That Mitt Romney, he is a master campaigner. This week he was introducing his wife, and he said, 'She is the heavyweight champion of my life. Which may explain why on the ride home, he was strapped to the roof of the car.
Bill Maher
#5. I am a champion, and my damsel is in distress. Failure is not an option." "But death is," she mumbled under her breath. "Fear not, mate. I will prevail." Famous last words.
Eve Langlais
#6. Hard work is always hard work, for young gymnasts and old gymnasts. Whoever can handle this will be a champion.
Svetlana Boginskaya
#7. I pretend not to be a champion of that same naked virtue called truth, to the very outrance. I can consent that her charms be hidden with a veil, were it but for decency's sake.
Walter Scott
#9. There's a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.
Matthew McConaughey
#10. Ofili is still a champion. It would be a huge mistake to think otherwise.
Jerry Saltz
#11. 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.
Alejandro Ramirez
#12. My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We've all been very athletic.
Grace Jones
#13. What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win.
Patty Berg
#14. I have no great urge to be minister of this or minister of that, but instead would feel incredible blessed to have the opportunity to be a champion for a constituency and fight for their cause.
Adam Rickitt
#15. I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall
Serena Williams
#16. There was of course no point in trying to monitor Eisman. He saw himself as a crusader, a champion of the underdog, an enemy of sinister authority. He saw himself, roughly speaking, as Spider-Man.
Michael Lewis
#17. The marathon is a charismatic event. It has everything. It has drama. It has competition. Every jogger can't dream of being an Olympic champion, but he can dream of finishing a marathon.
Fred Lebow
#18. Rebel Number Four" is waiting patiently by the door. I named him "Rebel Number Four," for he is the fourth of his kind I have given the name "Rebel." To many he may be just a hound dog, but to me he is a champion and a friend to the end.
Nancy B. Brewer
#19. It doesn't matter what the income level of your family is, or if English is the first or second language. It makes no difference. The bottom line is that every child can be an academic champion, an academic champion and a superstar in academics.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#21. She was a lover and a lewd cohabitator, a liar and a cherished friend, an aunt and a kindly grandmother, a champion of the fallen, and a late-in-coming fighter for reason over fear. Even in those final hours, quite and rocking, arriving and departing, she knew who she was.
Laura Moriarty
#22. I never thought I'd go so far. I never thought I'd be a champion. It's a dream come true.
Flavia Pennetta
#23. If I want to win a title I have to beat the champion myself, I don't have teammates inside the ring.
Travis Browne
#24. My greatest influences in my sport have been two former number one English lady darts players, Deta Hedman and Mandy Solomons. Deta helped me at international events and both helped me to cope with the big occasion which gave me the confidence I needed to become a champion.
Trina Gulliver
#25. The difference is almost all mental. The top players just hate to lose. I think that's the difference. A champion hates to lose even more than she loves to win.
Chris Evert
#26. He settled his hat back into position. She was a rookie in her first big game, and he'd never let her see how close she'd come to unseating a champion
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#27. A message To the children who have read this book. When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important. A stodgy parent is no fun at all! What a child wants -and DESERVES- is a parent who is SPARKY! - Danny, the champion of the world.
Roald Dahl
#28. Arise and pour pure wine into my cup,
Pour moon beams into the dark night of my
thought,
That I may lead home the wanderer
And imbue the idle looker-on with restless
impatience;
And advance hotly on a new quest
And become known as the champion of a new
spirit
Muhammad Iqbal
#29. To be a champion you must act like one, act like a champion.
Lou Ferrigno
#31. The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when no one else is watching.
Jim Afremow
#32. I believe a champion wins in his mind first, then plays the game, not the other way around.
Alex Rodriguez
#33. The cut under his eye and the split skin on his lower lip only enhanced his profile. He didn't look defeated. He looked like a fighter. A champion.
Lisa Kessler
#34. We occasionally see something on the stage that reminds us a little
of Shakespear. [Oct. 16, 1814, The Champion]
William Hazlitt
#35. Fame is an elastic concept, especially in a place like this, where we all know the smell of each other's armpits. - 'The Mupondawana Dancing Champion
Petina Gappah
#36. I have a saying 'train, don't strain.' The Americans have the saying 'no pain, no gain' and that's why they have no distance running champions. They get down to the track with a stopwatch and flog their guts out thinking that it'll make them a champion, but they'll never make a champion that way.
Arthur Lydiard
#37. I've always been a champion of kids pursuing their dreams. But sometimes in life, extraordinary circumstances may force us to temporarily put our dreams on hold. The most important thing is to never lose sight of that dream, no matter what punches life may throw in our way.
Marlo Thomas
#38. 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.
Del Worsham
#39. Experiencing pain in your muscles and aching, that's what makes the muscle grow. and that divides one from being a champion and one from not being a champion. If you can go through this pain barrier, you may get to be a champion. If You can't go through it, forget it.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#40. I wouldn't have been what you'd call a champion if I had accepted failure when it first came, if I had looked at it and said, 'Well, that's it.'
Shirley Strickland
#41. Being a champion opens lots of doors - I'd like to get a real estate license, maybe sell insurance.
Mike Tyson
#42. I've been searching a long time for something I think I lost.
I felt like I found something when I saw you back there.
Marie Lu
#43. June laughs. "I have to say, you look better than most people I see. I've heard a lot about you."
"I hear about you a lot too," Eden replies in a rush, "mostly from Daniel. He thinks you're really hot.
Marie Lu
#44. And he encourages Lewis to take the same chance he is taking, to count on the "perchance." And Lewis did. For the rest of his life he was a champion of the knowledge-giving power of myth, fantasy, Faery.
Alan Jacobs
#45. History serves as a model not only of who and what we are to be, we learn what to champion and what to avoid.
Steve Berry
#46. Mitt Romney, two-time Republican presidential hopeful, boxed former heavyweight champion of the world Evander Holyfield for charity. It was a horrible moment when Romney bit off Holyfield's other ear.
David Letterman
#47. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
Michael Johnson
#48. As a champion of the Church Militant in a hostile secular society, Belloc would sometimes exhibit a siege mentality akin to the defiance of Pius IX.
Joseph Pearce
#49. I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#50. Every time a champion makes a decision they have a chance to learn something new, regardless of the outcome.
Steve Backley
#51. I've been training super hard at the Lopez Taekwondo Academy in Houston, which belongs to my brother Jean. For me, I think confidence is the biggest thing; it's all mental. I train with the best of the best, including my brother Steven, a five-time world champion who won Olympic gold medals.
Diana Lopez
#52. Must be the hair then. And the name change. And your new piss-poor attitude. Because every once in a while, I look at you and I don't see a Baby Doll anymore. I just see Alice Faye Dahl, Poker Champion Badass. With obvious, heavy influences from Ronald McDonald, of course.
Elle Lothlorien
#54. We must abandon definitely the laissez-faire theory of political economy, and fearlessly champion a system of increased Governmental control, paying no heed to the cries of the worthy people who denounce this as Socialistic.
Theodore Roosevelt
#55. I trained and trained and went up against Kurt, then being a world champion in '94, and after that I did Tommy's tour and then my tour and all this stuff and just trying to deal with it all. And now, I've just kind of backed off a little.
Elvis Stojko
#56. 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.
James Toney
#57. There is only a half step difference between the champions and those who finish on the bottom. And much of that half step is mental.
Tom Landry
#58. A champion, he said, wins a World Series or an Olympic and is hoisted on the shoulders of teammates and fans. A hero carries the people on his shoulders. Champions live for the moment- heroes, like Jackie Robinson, transcend time.
Sharon Robinson
#59. I'm home and safe and filled with the comfort of being somewhere I've already been. The ruckus of homecoming is brutally enjoyable and everyone makes me feel like a champion. And all I had to do was stay away long enough.
Miguel Syjuco
#60. I was just starting out, trying to become a screenwriter, and I became the Austin slam champion three times. For a nerdy, kind of a socially awkward guy, that did wonders for my self esteem.
Ernest Cline
#61. You can't be one of the best freesurfers and a world champion.
Jordy Smith
#62. I never started in boxing to be a British champion or a world champion. There are loads of world champions in Britain, and if you mention them to someone out there on the street, nobody knows who they are.
Tyson Fury
#63. My old dance teacher, Jimmy Wilde, a former European ballroom dancing champion, was so sophisticated.
Anton Du Beke
#64. After you have seasoned your gloves with the blood, sweat and tears of your opponents, all else is anticlimactic.
Brian D'Ambrosio
#65. I've always been a fan at home. That's the one joke I have with Sam [Champion]. "I've always loved you! I remember wanting to be you in grade school!"
Chris Cuomo
#66. Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.
Manu Bennett
#67. I never go looking for a sucker. I look for a Champion and make a sucker of of him.
Amarillo Slim
#68. It's not so much what you accomplish in life that really matters, but what you overcome that proves who you are, what you are, and whether you are a champion.
Johnny Miller
#70. Mitt Romney announced he will fight former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield in a charity boxing match. You can tell that Romney is serious about it. Today, his butler gave him a piggyback ride up the steps of the Philadelphia art museum.
Jimmy Fallon
#71. My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We're from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers.
Olivier Martinez
#72. People say that it was degrading for an Olympic champion to run against a horse, but what was I supposed to do? I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals. There was no
television, no big advertising, no endorsements then. Not for a black man, anyway.
Jesse Owens
#73. He was also a vociferous champion of abstinence from hard or spirituous liquors - but then no one's perfect. In
David McCullough
#74. The honor of a gentleman demands the inviolability of his word, and the incorruptibility of his principles. He is the descendent of the knight, the crusader; he is the defender of the defenseless and the champion of justice
or he is not a gentleman.
Emily Post
#75. My biggest moment was winning the World Series because everyone in my town was able to feel he was a world champion.
Johnny Bench
#76. Joe Frazier's life didn't start with Ali. I was a Golden Gloves champ. Gold medal in Tokyo '64. Heavyweight champion of the world long before I fought Ali in the Garden.
Joe Frazier
#77. Tal accepted absolutely all the world champion's conditions with a smile, taking away a very important psychological trump card from him - the harsh, prickly relations with his opponent that were characteristic of all Botvinnik's matches.
Gennadi Sosonko
#78. But who would force the soul tilts with a straw Against a champion cased in adamant
William Wordsworth
#79. Champion Ven knelt in the ruins of the village. Sifting through the rubble, he lifted out a broken doll, its pink dress streaked with dirt and its pottery face cracked.
There was always a broken doll.
Why did there always have to be a damn doll?
Sarah Beth Durst
#80. Oh my God, you're serious. Honey, I am a six time Women's Champion, if you get into the ring with me it will not be for a Lingerie Pillow Fight, it will not be to shoot t-shirts. If you get into the ring with me I will end your career just like that. Are you sure that's what you want?
Trish Stratus
#82. I remember as a kid, I was improvising and making little trophies out of different materials and going in front of the mirror, lifting the trophies and saying 'Nole was the champion!'
Novak Djokovic
#83. I ran like a champion. It is a great consolation to show how dominant I am. I am the Olympic champion and the world champion, but I want Justin Gatlin to be the champion of everything,
Justin Gatlin
#85. You become a champion as a team. I understand that. I know the history of the game.
LeBron James
#86. I felt myself getting teary eyed. And I was like, 'Wait a second. You can't do that. You're the WWE Champion.' Then I went out of the ring, Alex Riley was there and we both celebrated together. Feeling his excitement made me feel even more excited.
The Miz
#87. I got the Eye of the Tiger
The Fire
Dancing through the fire
Cause I am a Champion!
And your gonna hear me Roar
-Roar
Katy Perry
#88. 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
#89. Growing up, I had a singing teacher who was an amazing champion of mine who helped build up my confidence, and I also count my therapist as one of the best teachers that I've ever had.
Gideon Glick
#90. I didn't aspire to be a good sport; 'champion' was good enough for me.
Fred Perry
#91. I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.
Idi Amin
#92. I was ready in 2008 for the Olympic Games but unfortunately I missed the Kenyan trials with a thigh injury. I watched those Olympics but it was tough to watch. But it was good in the end because a Kenyan, Wilfred Bungei, was the champion.
David Rudisha
#93. Cause I am a champion, and you're gonna hear me roar
Katy Perry
#94. I'm a champion, so I turn tragedy to triumph.
Kanye West
#95. In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I was a King - and when you are King you feel a lot of responsibility, but there is nobody there to help you.
Boris Spassky
#96. My late unlamented father taught me one valuable lesson. 'Boy', he would say to me in the thick brogue of a champion drunk, 'the only way to fight is to fight dirty. The only place to hit is below the belt.
J.D. Robb
#97. When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.
Pat Riley
#98. 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.
Daniel Cormier
#99. I'm American. I can't stand Brazilians. They live in a third-world country anyway, so they'll go anywhere if there's a little money. I live in America. I want to be a champion of an American organization.
Phil Baroni
#100. You can win all the tournaments you want, but the majors are what you're remembered for. It's how you're measured as a champion in our sport. The majors are where it's at.
Tiger Woods
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