Overall Champion Quotes

#1. A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

Billie Jean King

#2. I can sleep like a champion. I once slept through a smoke alarm going off. For three hours. In my bedroom.

Maureen Johnson

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Hard work is always hard work, for young gymnasts and old gymnasts. Whoever can handle this will be a champion.

Svetlana Boginskaya

#6. 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

#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

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

Martin Lel

#9. 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

#10. 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

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

Kurt Angle

#12. 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

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

Vitali Klitschko

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

Matthew McConaughey

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

Jerry Saltz

#16. 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

#17. 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

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

Grace Jones

#19. Champions behave like champions before they are champions

Bill Walsh

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

Patty Berg

#21. 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

#22. 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

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

Serena Williams

#24. 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

#25. 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

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

Anatoly Karpov

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Tyson Fury

#32. To be a champion, you must have no ego at all. You must not exist as a separate entity. You must give yourself over to the race. You are nothing if not for your team, your car, your shoes, your tires. Do not mistake confidence and self-awareness for egotism.

Garth Stein