Champion Defend Quotes

#1. My knight may not wear a coat of shining armor, but his code of glowing honor will never fail to protect us both from evils far worse than any fire-breathing dragon.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#2. It's always about timing. If it's too soon, no one understands. If it's too late, everyone's forgotten.

Anna Wintour

#3. Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

Oliver Goldsmith

#4. To communicate, put your words in order; give them a purpose; use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce.

William Safire

#5. Nature is a divine art.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. On no days of our childhood did we live so fully perhaps as those we thought we had left behind without living them, those that we spent with a favourite book.

Marcel Proust

#7. God, if you recall, did not warn his people against dirty books. He warned them against high places.

Walker Percy

#8. Reason deserves to be called a prophet; for in showing us the consequence and effect of our actions in the present, does it not tell us what the future will be?

Arthur Schopenhauer

#9. It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Gene Hackman

#10. I think that the World Champion should try to defend the quality of play more than anyone else.

Boris Spassky

#11. I'm not going to recommend recklessness but somewhere just short of it - testing yourself and proactively pursuing a rite of passage has become necessary because in western developed countries we've become very comfort-addicted.

Sean Penn

#12. He was WBC champion, I was mandatory. He had his opportunity to earn big money and defend against me, and he chose not to. It's as simple as that. He did not want to fight 'The Cobra', cos he knew he was probably going to get one of these (his fists) on the chin and it was going to be all over.

Carl Froch

#13. In other times it may have been the business of Christianity to champion the equality of all men; its business today will be to defend passionately human dignity and reserve.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#14. I've been proud to be national champion. I've really enjoyed it. I have very little opportunity to remind people that I'm British and it's a nice way of staying in touch. I'm going to defend it fiercely. I want to keep it.

David Millar

#15. I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

Kurt Cobain

#16. To go beyond the mind, you must be silent and quiet. Peace and silence, silence and peace - this is the way beyond. Stop asking questions.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#17. Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.

John Muir

#18. It hurts me because of what he's doing to boxing. Because one of the most important world titles is at stake now. The champion has to defend it against the best.

Sergio Martinez

#19. How could I have been a wife, a mother and a singer? Who takes care of the piccolini when you go around the world? Your children would not call you 'Mama,' but 'Renata.'

Renata Tebaldi