Champions Do Not Become Champions Quotes

#1. Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.

Alan Armstrong

#2. He dreamed big but understood that dreams become reality only when their champions are strong enough and wily enough to bend history to their purposes.

Jon Meacham

#3. Each and every one of us should stop playing small and license ourselves to become one of the giants of the new century. We will need champions by the truckload.

Van Jones

#4. Champions don't become champions in the field
they are merely recognized there.

Bob Costas

#5. People tend to grow fearful, when they taste failure, face a daunting challenge or fall ill. Yet, that is precisely the time to become even bolder. Those who are victors at heart are the greatest of all champions!!!!

Carmelo Anthony

#6. I like to call myself an "equal opportunist," as I love both dogs and cats, but over the last couple years, both Howard and I have become champions for cats. They are so independent and loving and playful and bring such happiness to our lives.

Beth Ostrosky Stern

#7. It's wonderful for me to see what 'We Will Rock You' has done. 'We Will Rock You' and 'We Are the Champions' have kind of transcended the normal framework of where music is listened to and appreciated - they've become part of public life, which I feel wonderful about.

Brian May

#8. Athletes who are able to stay completely focused in pursuit of their dreams are the ones that are most likely to become champions.

Steve Backley

#9. No one likes to fail. But we mortals do not become champions without effort and discipline or without making mistakes.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#10. It takes more than driving to become an IndyCar driver. Gone are the days when drivers show up Friday morning and go home Sunday night. We're all integral to our partnerships, commercially, motorsports. We're as much champions in the boardroom as we are on the racetrack.

Charlie Kimball

#11. It would be great to give back to this city and its youth brigade important lessons that will help them become future champions. I look forward to this opportunity.

Pat Cash

#12. My ultimate dream would be for Derry City to become champions of an all-Ireland league in a united Ireland.

Martin McGuinness

#13. Champions are an example of what happens when you decide to leave the plane of average thinking, where you dare to dream and you dare to go after that dream, and you make these thoughts and ideas become more than something than just a dream. They actually become a vision.

Kai Greene