Quotes About Being Champion

#1. Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.

Althea Gibson

#2. When I started off riding, you dream about being champion jockey. Then I wanted to be champion jockey again. Then I wanted to ride 200 winners in a season. Then, when there was a chance of riding more winners than Richard Dunwoody, that was my goal.

Tony McCoy

#3. My aim is to motivate a human being, to find the champion within

Johnny G

#4. Judah Friedlander, I'm ok with you being the world champion for a few years more. That's a hook with legs. But I think he should make one more hat, that says 'there's a limit to how funny words on a hat can be'. And then move to a chapeau.

Andy Kindler

#5. Being a 3-time Intercontinental champion doesn't make you a great wrestler, just like Larry King having 9 wives don't make him a great husband.

Jerry Lawler

#6. I think I could have become an outstanding professional baseball player, but I don't think I could have reached the heights that I have in football - being one of the very top players in the game, being a world champion.

Joe Namath

#7. For me right now I think being the world number one is a bigger deal than being the world champion because I think it shows better who plays the best chess. That sounds self-serving but I think it's also right.

Magnus Carlsen

#8. Being a world champion is something I'm already proud of and can take for the rest of my life.

Nonito Donaire

#9. A Champion is all they can be in every facet of their lives. They prioritize what they need to get done. But for me it's someone who works every single day on being a better person.

Shannon Higgins-Cirovski

#10. Being intercontinental champion doesn't mean you're a champ. It means you're the future.

Cody Rhodes

#11. Guess it wasn't all fun
and games being a champion.

Amy Harmon

#12. I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.

Billie Jean King

#13. 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.

#14. I've always been motivated to be a champion since the age of 13 and I love being a winner.

Joe Calzaghe

#15. No champion has ever lifted a trophy that was not already being held inside.

Steve Ilg

#16. Champion the right to be yourself; dare to be different and to set your own pattern, live your own life, and follow your own star.

Wilferd Peterson

#17. Being the undisputed world champion is a relief. We instituted a unified chess title, I am the absolute world champion.

Viswanathan Anand

#18. I am he / Who champions total liberty - / Intolerance being, ma'am, a state / No tolerant man can tolerate.

Phyllis McGinley

#19. I'm proud of my triumphs. I've dreamed of being world champion, I've had some difficult times and they've made me value the good times.

Sete Gibernau

#20. I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them.

Armand Assante

#21. You know, every morning that I wake up ... I realize that being World Champion is a gift. And let me be the one to tell you I'm loving every minute of it!

Oscar Gutierrez

#22. I champion the idea of being more conscious. I call it being an active architect of your own life. Building your life like an architect builds a structure.

Hill Harper

#23. We live in a time when to reject the idea of an all-seeing, all-knowing, all-powerful government is to be viewed by that government as being anti-government.

Dave Champion

#24. Olympic officials have disqualified a champion race walker after determining that he was doping. They disqualified him. The man said getting caught doping is almost as embarrassing as getting caught being a champion race walker.

Conan O'Brien

#25. Let the god that is within you be the champion of the being you are.

Marcus Aurelius

#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. 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

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

Mike Tyson

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. Nobody gets tired of being the champions. We are still trying to go after the title again.

Maurice Hall

#33. In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I was a King - and when you are King you feel a lot of responsibility, but there is nobody there to help you.

Boris Spassky

#34. If I'm to accomplish my goal of being the world champion I've got to be better; so every day I come in here with a goal, and that's to get better.

Daniel Cormier

#35. Greatness, whether athletic or otherwise, doesn't come from those content on just being but from those who seek being the difference.

Kirk Mango

#36. I want to be a multi-time champion. I want to be a multiple division champion. I still have a lot of goals; it is a matter of staying the course, being consistent and persistent, and making it happens.

Urijah Faber

#37. An American champion, obviously being here in the states, is something that we all look at with the U.S. Open. But golf is played all over the world, and there are so many great golfers from other countries, and we're lucky enough that this is our home base to be able to play out of.

Paula Creamer

#38. I like being the people's champion when it comes to dining.

Adam Richman

#39. The Gospel of Judas turns Judas' act of betrayal into an act of obedience. The sacrifice of Jesus' body of flesh in fact becomes saving. And so for that reason, Judas emerges as the champion and he ends up being envied and even cursed and resented by the other disciples.

Craig A. Evans

#40. To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well.

Anatoly Karpov

#41. Being a champion and staying that way is the most difficult thing to deal with. Everyone sees you as a target. They want to bring you down.

Tomoki Kameda

#42. When you write something it has to hit the level that you accept as being good.

Will Champion

#43. Creating emotion was what my career was all about. I wanted people to laugh at me; I wanted people to cry with me. I wanted people to feel good or to think about something when they watched me. I think that's why, even not being an Olympic champion, I have such a huge following around the world.

Johnny Weir

#44. All I care about is that people are being entertained. It's not about being the world champion [in wrestling], it's about exciting the people. If you walk away entertained, then I did my job, and that's all I care about.

Randy Savage

#45. Courage means being afraid to do something, but still doing it.

Knute Rockne

#46. I'm a gypsy: no education, no schooling, nothing. I don't care what people think of me. I don't care about being a hero, a role model, a champion.

Tyson Fury

#47. The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.

John Madden