Top 100 Champion Quotes
#1. Someone has to be the best; the champion; the winner. Why not you?
Butch Bellah
#2. Gray space is fertile ground for fiction. When I can see both sides of an argument and feel strongly in both directions, then there's a story there, then I can write real characters that I care about and believe in and champion on both sides.
Kelly Sue DeConnick
#3. I didn't think I was so tough until I did 'Champion'; then I was a tough guy.
Kirk Douglas
#4. A champion is someone ho gets up,
een when he can't
Jack Dempsey
#5. She could forgive the girl who had needed a captain of the guard to offer stability after a year in hell; forgive the girl who had needed a captain to be her champion. But she was her own champion now.
Sarah J. Maas
#6. Research confirms that both Republican and Democratic women are more likely than their male counterparts to initiate and fight for bills that champion social justice, protect the environment, advocate for families, and promote nonviolent conflict resolution.
Dee Dee Myers
#7. Nobody is born as a champion. You have to earn it through hard work. Get started!
Wladimir Klitschko
#8. I actually study boxing - my dad was a Golden Gloves champion so I learned how to fight at a very young age. Growing up in Brooklyn you always had to watch your back, so I pretty much learned to protect myself.
Lana Parrilla
#9. No second chances. It's not so much about morality, but about my inability to forgive. I am a champion grudge holder, and I don't think I could change this about myself even if I wanted to.
Emily Giffin
#10. I would like to champion diverse forms like graphic novels and works told in verse and diverse writers and illustrators and diverse authors as well.
Malorie Blackman
#11. Faith is the champion of Grace, and Love the nurse; but Humility is the beauty of Grace.
Thomas Brooks
#12. I was just racing day by day. With Niki [Lauda], every race was to be on the top. He programmed his life to be champion. I enjoyed life. That was the maximum for me ...
Clay Regazzoni
#13. Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.
Althea Gibson
#14. Values are not just words, values are what we live by. They're about the causes that we champion and the people we fight for
John F. Kerry
#15. Because I am Olympic champion, everyone assumes I am this perfect athlete who should never lose. Every time I step in the ring, I am expected to win.
Jade Jones
#16. I always loved reading. I always was the spelling bee champion. I always loved words. I always wanted to know what they meant, why you used them, who first said them. I was always interested in that.
Brenda Lee
#17. Single-mindedness. I hate to say it because I don't think it's the best thing for developing a person, but the single-mindedness - just concentrating in the one area - that's what it takes to be a champion.
Chris Evert
#18. The referee jumped in too late in my opinion. He's the champion and he's got to be given every chance, but a lot of people was wincing and cringing seeing the finish cos his head is bouncing all over the place.
Carl Froch
#19. I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
Billie Jean King
#20. A champion is someone who gets up when they can't.- Jack Dempsey.
R.J. Prescott
#21. We realized that the world of popular culture had been creating the perfect candidate for many years: the female champion of the universe.
Nick Offerman
#23. I lost three times in my career. Losing to Holmes I could deal with, because I lost to a true champion.
Gerry Cooney
#24. I'm not a wushu champion. I was an athlete when I was a kid. I was a swimmer and a runner, but all this action stuff is such a challenge. It really, really is.
Maggie Q
#26. What is a champion but a guy that didn't quit? ... Life is a continuous experience. You only fail by not learning.
Renzo Gracie
#27. The eyes of a young girl can tell everything. And I always look in their eyes. There I can see if I will have a champion.
Neshka Robeva
#28. You're the champion, I reminded myself. You have to fight a dragon. You're not allowed to be scared of a penis.
Nicole Peeler
#29. The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.
Mia Hamm
#30. When I started out playing chess as a kid I thought I should be world champion. As a kid you have no idea what that means and you only sort of picture it. It is hard to imagine that I waited all those years and it happened in a late stage of my career.
Viswanathan Anand
#31. I may have become a world champion quicker than most, but people should look at me and realise there are all kinds of ways to get where you want to go. Because we didn't plan it. We just did it.
Mikaela Shiffrin
#32. Bob Mathias was one of those rare individuals with the ability to inspire a nation through his determination and perseverance. He was a champion in every aspect of life, and he embraced the values that make our country and the worldwide Olympic movement special
Peter Ueberroth
#33. In itself the title of world champion does not give any significicant advantages, if it is not acknowledged by the entire chess world, and a champion who does not have the chess world behind him is, in my view, a laughing-stock.
Emanuel Lasker
#34. My only real claim to fame is that I was southern England show-jumping champion in 1966. The day after my father died, 'Horse & Hound' magazine tipped me as a future Olympic champion, and I took it seriously. You can only really enjoy something if you take it seriously.
Jonathan Dimbleby
#35. If I'm able to win the world championships when I'm not even at my best, then with another year until Rio, maybe I could even become Olympic champion.
Bianca Walkden
#36. A true champion is one that accepts defeat the same manner he accepts winning".
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#37. If the WWF was about talent, Taka Michinoku would have been WWF champion
Mick Foley
#38. A champion is the one standing right immediately after the battle is over
Ademola Adejumo
#39. I started a business with two guys I played with, Ronnie Lott and Harris Barton: Champion Ventures, it's a fund of funds. We have $400 million or so under management.
Joe Montana
#40. Throughout the history of the sport, the heavyweight champion has been ... a reason to talk about boxing at the water cooler.
Teddy Atlas
#41. I champion sensibly designed racial affirmative action, not because I have benefited from it personally - though I have. I support it because, on balance, it is conducive to the public good.
Randall Kennedy
#42. Do you think a champion is made out of thin air? It's through the hardships you endure that you'll gain real strength.
Gail Tsukiyama
#43. A champion of the workingman has never been known to die of overwork.
Robert Frost
#44. All boxing experts told Helenius is the next world champion! Chisora beat him.
Vitali Klitschko
#45. Never underestimate the heart of a champion!
Doc Rivers
#46. You can never give up or get down on yourself. A true champion keeps his or her chin up and always takes life one race at a time.
Gail Devers
#47. So, I didn't say we are going to win a lot, but we are going to play like winners, and we've got a plan in place to teach our guys how to play like winners and play like a champion.
Steve Spurrier
#48. You see yourself as something of a champion of the poor, don't you?" "No, just their doctor.
K.J. Bishop
#49. 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.
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
#50. The ground is no place for a champion. The ground is no place that I will wallow on.
Jesse Jackson
#51. One of the trademarks of a champion is that he can outlast you.
Lou Brock
#52. First of all I thought it was ugly, I thought it was ridiculous that undercover police guys would drive a striped tomato and I've never been a big champion of Ford.
Paul Michael Glaser
#53. Lord Nirall's eyes flew open just as the King's Champion raised her sword over his head.
Sarah J. Maas
#54. You don't get to be world champion unless you do that ...
Conor McGregor
#55. Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.
Mark Twain
#56. What it is saying is that someone who was a world champion and who takes care of himself with a 17-year rest and applies the proper training techniques and perseverance could be successful.
Mark Spitz
#57. You have to believe on the court. In the end, it's mental. In these moments against a great champion like Rafa, you have to believe. It's all about stepping in and taking your chances. I always believed, but it's a process of learning.
Novak Djokovic
#59. [T]he great champion of the opponents of liberty, namely communism, had to find some other place to go and they basically went into the environmental movement.
Harrison Schmitt
#60. I am a member of the team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.
Mia Hamm
#61. 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.
John Cena
#62. What sort of champion would I be if I just stayed in my normal weight division and didn't take the big challenges on? Bring them on, that's what Ricky Hatton's all about.
Ricky Hatton
#63. Training to become champion is the toughest thing. The fight itself is just a test.
Georges St-Pierre
#64. He killed the king's champion, the Captain of the Guard, Sir Galen. That's who Sareth's sister was in mourning for."
"You're going to tell me it wasn't by poisoning his mead?"
"Single combat."
"We're leaving." I called it from the corridor.
Mark Lawrence
#65. It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion.
Yann Martel
#66. Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.
Jonah Goldberg
#67. Ali and I have become friends over the years. I was on a plane with him one time when he was the champion.
Robert Goulet
#68. Congratulations to the NBA champion Boston Celtics - they beat the Los Angeles Lakers by 39 points.
Or as Hillary Clinton would say, Too close to call.
Craig Ferguson
#69. You cant be a champion until you can beat a bear.
Daniel Bryan
#70. You have to believe that you deserve great things. You have to believe that you deserve to win each fight that you're in. You have to believe that you deserve to become a champion.
Michael Chandler
#71. I am the heavyweight champion of the world, and the greatest heavyweight you have seen for a long while. With Tyson on the card, it is definitely an added bonus because Lewis-Tyson on the same card would be a great doubleheader. This is what the fans want to see.
Lennox Lewis
#72. Wilder is not a big draw in the U.S. He maybe sells 5,000 to 10,000 tickets when he's fighting in his own town for the heavyweight champion.
Tyson Fury
#74. You must become a climate champion, a single-issue voter. You must take whatever action you can. You must use whatever influence you have wherever it would make a difference, even if it is only to educate the people around you.
Joseph J. Romm
#75. The cherished dream of every chessplayer is to play a match with the World Champion. But here is the paradox: the closer you come to the realization of this goal, the less you think about it.
Mikhail Tal
#76. Recently I saw Kasparov and he looked to me as still young and potent champion.
Boris Spassky
#77. Klitschko was the reigning champion for a decade and regarded by many as one of the greatest heavyweights of all time. I'm never going to face another opponent with that legacy.
Tyson Fury
#78. I've always been motivated to be a champion since the age of 13 and I love being a winner.
Joe Calzaghe
#79. Passion and hard work makes a great player, but the courage to get up every time you fall is what makes a champion.
Jeanette Lee
#80. To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are.
Muhammad Ali
#81. And to not blink against the greatest player in the world, I think she's going - she said it really nicely. She [Serena Williams] said now, I can call myself a grand slam champion, and that sounds really, really nice. So I'm very happy for her.
Howard Bryant
#82. The morning news hour ends with Evelyna Salsdottir, the champion poet of New Asgard, reciting her award-winning song "Sunfall in Mesa Verde." It's about vanishing people, and the memories they leave behind, like the longest shadows cast as the sun sets.
Tessa Gratton
#83. Believing in myself and not to be afraid of taking any risks. I have to be better than the average person to succeed. That's why I chose bodybuilding. If I became a world champion, if I could win admiration from my peers, I could do anything.
Lou Ferrigno
#84. I'm looking for a full-time portable heat generator. Must be willing to travel. If you don't snuggle, you must cuddle - at a world champion level.
Jarod Kintz
#85. I'm not too sure how much you get for winning the Champion's League, but it's definitely 10 million euros.
David Pleat
#86. What motivated me to dedicate myself to public service for nearly two-thirds of my life was the chance to produce results for those people who entrusted me to be their voice and their champion.
Olympia Snowe
#87. Each man recalls not the enemy he hated, but the champion who engaged him with such valor.
Steven Pressfield
#88. I've got a winner mentality, the mentality of a champion.
Lamar Odom
#90. scaremongers - who unquestioningly champion anecdotal data, while meticulously examining every large, carefully conducted study on the same subject for any small chink that would permit them to dismiss it entirely.
Ben Goldacre
#92. I had been thinking, 'I've got to win because I'm Olympic champion'; actually, no, it's, 'I'm an Olympic champion for life,' I can just enjoy the rest.
Jade Jones
#93. I don't need to be fixed anymore. That job's already been done. I love you, Annabelle.
-Heath Champion-
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#94. Even when people didn't think I was the real champion, I got called out anyway. So now when you get a good win the first person people think of is me. I guess they thought it would be easy, but nothing comes easy.
Danny Garcia
#95. If you want to be a champion you cannot have any kind of an outside negative force coming in to deflect you.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#96. I've wrestled Kyle O'Reilly all over the world. I know how good he is, our fans know how good he is. A lot of people feel he is the next guy in line to be world champion.
Adam Cole
#97. Ever since I was a child I always wanted to be WWE Champion. I've been in love with sports-entertainment for my entire life, and I always wanted to do that.
David Otunga
#98. Now that I'm losing some, I can see how tough I was
the killer instinct, the single-mindedness, playing like a machine. Boy, that's what made me a champion.
Chris Evert
#99. [He] saw communism for the sham that it was
a bunch of brutes who seized power in the name of the people, only to repress the very people they claimed to champion.
Vince Flynn
#100. I would be more than her guardian and her champion and the jester who made her laugh. I would be her everything, if I could. -Puck
Julie Kagawa
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