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. My shirt and my hat always say 'World Champion' in some language. English, Spanish, Chinese, 'Star Wars' language, which is also known as Aurebesh, mermaid language.

Judah Friedlander

#8. 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. It is very good to be Olympic champion, but that is not the strongest field.

Martin Lel

#10. In the Year 2000 due to the declining number of champions in the world, Wheaties will change its slogan to 'Breakfast of Sexual Deviants.

Conan O'Brien

#11. Girls rival each other. Women revive each other.
Girls empale each other. Women empower each other.
Girls compare each other. Women champion each other.

Ann Voskamp

#12. I became the first ever Euro-continental champion in WWF history. Well, besides D-Lo Brown, but he doesn't count.

Kurt Angle

#13. Sienna Rivers, ex-nerd, undisputed reigning chess champion of the class of 09 and the proverbial all round wise-ass degenerate pain in your backside.

Ali Harper

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

Vitali Klitschko

#15. There's a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.

Matthew McConaughey

#16. Ofili is still a champion. It would be a huge mistake to think otherwise.

Jerry Saltz

#17. 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

#18. 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.

Dick Armey

#19. My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We've all been very athletic.

Grace Jones

#20. Champions behave like champions before they are champions

Bill Walsh

#21. What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win.

Patty Berg

#22. 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

#23. As the World Champion, every day is pretty much like Valentine's Day for me - as far as hooking up with the ladies.

Judah Friedlander

#24. I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall

Serena Williams

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. We need strong personalities and only one world champion to attract sponsors.

Anatoly Karpov

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. Finishing overall champion at the World Series in both the individual and synchro events has given me great confidence and I'm pleased I've been diving with consistency.

Tom Daley

#31. To be a champion you must live like one.

George Bernard Shaw

#32. There are 7 billion people in the world, but there's only one heavyweight champion of the world, and that's me.

Tyson Fury

#33. 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

#34. I never thought I'd go so far. I never thought I'd be a champion. It's a dream come true.

Flavia Pennetta

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

Travis Browne

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. Magnus Bane," said Magnus. "High Warlock of Brooklyn and Scrabble champion.

Cassandra Clare

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. To be a champion you must act like one, act like a champion.

Lou Ferrigno

#43. One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people - men of the stature of Garry Kasparov, the former world champion, who was my part-time coach.

Magnus Carlsen

#44. When the confrontation begins, strike like champions who do not want to go back to this world. Shout, "Allahu Akbar," because this strikes fear in the hearts of the non-believers.

Mohamed Atta

#45. A true champion will fight through anything.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#46. The next thing you're going to tell me is Daniel Bryan is the United States Champion.

Vince McMahon

#47. 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

#48. I believe a champion wins in his mind first, then plays the game, not the other way around.

Alex Rodriguez

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

Usain Bolt

#50. 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

#51. We occasionally see something on the stage that reminds us a little
of Shakespear. [Oct. 16, 1814, The Champion]

William Hazlitt

#52. I'm the champion because I'm the best in every area.

Ronda Rousey

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. 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

#56. 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

#57. Your best champion and cheerleader is yourself. Always be proud of your accomplishments, big or small.

Ayanna Howard

#58. I still am champion in my own right.

Leon Spinks

#59. 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

#60. All these nice people saying I'm going to be world champion won't make me any faster, you have to believe it yourself.

Sebastian Vettel

#61. 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

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

Mike Tyson

#63. 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

#64. 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

#65. 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

#66. 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

#67. Growing up, I was the champion of spiders and moths in my house, catching and releasing them for my mother at great personal risk.

John L. Monk

#68. Be men and women with others and for others, real champions in the service of others.

Pope Francis

#69. 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

#70. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.

Michael Johnson

#71. 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

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

Aung San Suu Kyi

#73. Every time a champion makes a decision they have a chance to learn something new, regardless of the outcome.

Steve Backley

#74. 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

#75. 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

#76. Become a champion like Stone Cold Steve Austin!

Stone Cold Steve Austin

#77. 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

#78. 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

#79. My cousin Simon Bor, the champion of Los Angeles, convinced me to concentrate on running.

Martin Lel

#80. 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.

Michael J. Gelb

#81. 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

#82. 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

#83. 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

#84. 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

#85. 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

#86. Of course, we all know what UFC stands for - Undefeated Floyd's Champion

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#87. Playing chess is more athletic than artistic. Champions are more concerned with victory than beauty: it's war with occasionally graceful kicks.

Jennifer Shahade

#88. 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

#89. You can't be one of the best freesurfers and a world champion.

Jordy Smith

#90. 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

#91. My old dance teacher, Jimmy Wilde, a former European ballroom dancing champion, was so sophisticated.

Anton Du Beke

#92. I had never, ever drunk beer in high school, and by the time I got to Tech we were having these parties out in the cotton fields and getting so drunk. I was the champion beer drinker; suddenly I was pouring it down my throat ... Insane! Insane!

Bob Livingston

#93. Socialism always produces evil results, no matter one's intentions.

Dave Champion

#94. When you go to other parks, they hang banners for the wild-card or Eastern Division or Western Division champions. Around here, they don't hang anything unless its for being world champions.

Chili Davis

#95. What's the point of keeping in touch with the girl you're crazy about, when you're dying?

Marie Lu

#96. After you have seasoned your gloves with the blood, sweat and tears of your opponents, all else is anticlimactic.

Brian D'Ambrosio

#97. My friends were like, "Oh, this weekend, we're going to go shopping." "Oh, this weekend I'm going to go to see the judo champion" ... you know. And I couldn't do anything.

Riccardo Tisci

#98. 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

#99. I know not which I prefer the look of - those who attack us or that which defends us!

Michael Moorcock

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

Manu Bennett