Top 100 Quotes About Champions
#1. I fire people that win gold medals, great champions, everything else, and, you know, it's not - it's not easy. People say oh well it comes easy for me, it doesn't. And it's never fun. It's all to easier though when I don't like somebody or when they're really, really bad then it becomes much easier.
Donald Trump
#2. You must realize one thing. In every little village in the world there are great potential champions who only need motivation, development and good exercise evaluation.
Arthur Lydiard
#3. I didn't know then what a sperm was, and so wouldn't understand his answer for several years. "My boy," he said, "you are descended from a long line of determined, resourceful, microscopic tadpoles
champions every one.
Kurt Vonnegut
#4. The Champions League is a big ambition, and all the footballers want to play in it; it is a very important competition.
Fernando Torres
#5. 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
#6. Hope is the breakfast of champions.
Tom Sturm
#7. The best part about winning the PGA is getting great pairings at tour events. It's fun to play with Phil Mickelson and other past major champions.
Keegan Bradley
#8. Champions behave like champions before they are champions
Bill Walsh
#9. The difference between ordinary players and champions is the way they think.
Patty Berg
#10. If multi-stakeholder Internet governance is to survive an endless series of challenges, its champions must commit to serving the interests and protecting the rights of all Internet users around the world, particularly those in developing countries where Internet use is growing fastest.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#11. The American Communists had thrived as champions of domestic reform.
Earl Browder
#12. You certainly get used to winning in general. Winning the Champions League is a very particular feeling, but it's really the journey that makes it special. Every journey that brings you toward a win is important.
Clarence Seedorf
#13. The Afghans are probably the world champions in resisting foreign domination and infiltration into their country.
Stephen Kinzer
#14. The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.
Pancho Gonzales
#16. The difference between champions and everyone else is that champions are never afraid of losing, while everyone else is afraid of winning.
Jeffrey Fry
#17. 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
#18. They fought like champions.
For a minute.
Just when it was getting interesting, both boys were hauled away their collars. A watchful parent.
Markus Zusak
#19. To win the Champions League with Porto, you have to be tactically acute
Paul Merson
#20. I'm no longer thinking of Madrid. That dream is dead. The only thing I dream about now is Manchester United and winning the Champions League again in Rome.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. When darkness comes,
stars shine.
When storms come,
plants flourish.
When adversity comes,
champions triumph.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#25. We were singing 'We Are the Champions' for the twentieth time or so," she said from the hospital in Bowling Green, where most of the survivors were taken.
Stephen King
#26. Be men and women with others and for others, real champions in the service of others.
Pope Francis
#27. I came to AS Roma to play in the Champions League
Ashley Cole
#28. They were unwillingly to give 100 percent if they didn't personally think it was important. What you don't understand is the champions know it's all important.
Tony Dungy
#29. I'm more of a hands-on person. I like working with young people from the standpoint of providing support for the grassroots programs. State, national and Olympic champions begin at a grassroots level.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
#30. Win, lose, or tie, you're gonna play like champions!
Herb Brooks
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. When I think of Arsenal, my favourite personal memory that I recall is scoring my first goal for the Club - away to Lazio in the Champions League. It was important because when you join a new club, you really want to score your first goal. It's where everything started for me at this club
Robert Pires
#35. There have been great champions in every generation.
Andy Roddick
#36. Playing chess is more athletic than artistic. Champions are more concerned with victory than beauty: it's war with occasionally graceful kicks.
Jennifer Shahade
#37. He's got that New Orleans thing crawling all over him, that good stuff, that We Are the Champions, to hell with the rest and I'll just start over kind of attitude.
Chris Rose
#38. I do not need to play in the Champions League to be happy
Mats Hummels
#39. All of us at Juventus agreed Manchester United were the best side we met in the Champions League. They have so many talented young players and can only get better and better. Giggs is truly world class
Zinedine Zidane
#40. We win, we loose, we will play like champions.
Endeavor
#41. You are closer to victory than you know, when you feel you just can't go on any longer. It is what makes champions who they are, the ability to muster up a little bit more when everyone else would give in. It is at that moment a tipping point usually occurs.
JohnA Passaro
#42. Manchester United have risen to the pinnacle of the English game at a time when the rewards are so high - thanks to the ticket to the Champions League - that they have resources that only a handful of other sides, through merit or the exploitation of the people of Russia, can approach.
Phil Cornwell
#43. You can't be one of the best freesurfers and a world champion.
Jordy Smith
#44. When we played at Celtic Park for Bayern in the Champions League it was unbelievable and I think all our players said the same thing afterwards. The atmosphere was just totally unique. I've played in lots of big games and stadiums but I've never witnessed fans making that much noise in 90 minutes.
Owen Hargreaves
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. Champions aren't made in the ring, they are merely recognized there. What you cheat on in the early light of morning will show up in the ring under the bright lights.
Joe Frazier
#48. Nobody gets tired of being the champions. We are still trying to go after the title again.
Maurice Hall
#49. Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#50. Champions don't do extraordinary things. They do ordinary things, but they do them without thinking, too fast for the other team to react. They follow the habits they've learned.
Charles Duhigg
#51. The high point of my career was winning the Champions League. No one will ever erase that from my memory, in the same way that no one will ever erase the fact that I did it in a Manchester United shirt.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#52. I just wanted to jump into the stands and start celebrating with those wonderful fans.
(on reaching the Champions League final)
Steven Gerrard
#53. My career progressed slowly. Real slow at a time. The irony of it was I had the best part of my career between when I was 45 and 49 years old. That's when most people are in their twilight, waiting to get to the Champions Tour. And that's when I made most of my hay.
Fred Funk
#54. One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.
Mortimer Adler
#55. So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.
Kurt Vonnegut
#56. EarthEcho Expeditions represents the culmination of more than a decade of working with educators and youth from around the world. EarthEcho Expeditions uses the thrill of adventure to inspire and empower a new generation of environmental champions.
Philippe Cousteau Jr.
#57. It is always a danger when you have a big game ahead, but there is only one way to prepare well for our Champions League game - and that is to do well tomorrow. Therefore, I feel there is a lot at stake for us tomorrow. It is a massive game for us.
Arsene Wenger
#58. Champions are not generated from the championship. Champion is generated from something they have in them, desires, dreams, and visions.
Muhammad Ali
#59. Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liberty, and his followers, in every age, have been the chosen champions of freedom!
Orson F. Whitney
#60. Fornication is the murderer of champions and of people who have success, power, wisdom and anointing.
Sunday Adelaja
#61. Give me a great Champions League game or an exciting Premier League game ahead of an international match and I'd love that to reverse. A lot of people have lost interest in England games, it is quite hard to watch.
Michael Owen
#62. 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
#64. They will sustain the constitution and laws and institutions of the United States, and be the champions of liberty and of that constitution when its integrity shall be threatened.
Lorenzo Snow
#65. God uses the tension, complexity, and challenge of doing His kingdom work to transform us into champions.
Christine Caine
#66. 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
#68. Give me a sport that is greater than wrestling, that's more dominant than wrestling and with more champions in fighting than with wrestling. There isn't. The sport that's king is wrestling.
Henry Cejudo
#70. I've seen teams spend £150 million and get nowhere near the Champions League. It has taken Manchester City a billion to get there. There are no guarantees.
Gordon Strachan
#71. That's how we all feel about our dogs, isn't it? They don't have to be champions in the ring to be champions in our hearts.
Ellen Miles
#72. Women have to be the biggest champions in the world of other women's choices.
Dee Dee Myers
#73. I feel blessed that I managed to fight 46 fights undefeated, that I was a world champion for 11 years, one of the longest reigning champions of all time and I like to think that I come out looking pretty good.
Joe Calzaghe
#74. Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.
Billie Jean King
#75. You will never have great tennis champions from England because of the cold and dark, but most of all because people only care about the sport for two weeks a year, and then they're on to something else. There's just not a great love of the sport there.
Monica Seles
#76. Always be the best, my boy, the bravest, and hold your head up high above all the others. Never disgrace the generation of your fathers. They were the bravest champions ...
Homer
#77. But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#78. Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits.
Mike Krzyzewski
#79. Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit
in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.
Chinua Achebe
#81. As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions.
Brad Sherman
#82. There are champions everywhere. Every street's got them. All we need to do is train them properly.
Arthur Lydiard
#83. We need to go there and make sure we bring that cup home. and if we do succeed, then we'll dedicate it to the fans that have waited so patiently since 1984.
(on the Champions League)
Steven Gerrard
#84. Sports is about balls and about heart and you don't find too many champions in any sport in the world without heart or balls. He might have them, but against Nadal they shrink to a very small size and it's not once, it's every time.
Mats Wilander
#85. Champions don't become champions in the field
they are merely recognized there.
Bob Costas
#86. Great champions learn from past experiences, whether those be good or bad. A lot of times a guy needs to be knocked down before he gets up and fights.
Paul Azinger
#87. The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.
Kurt Vonnegut
#88. Champions and winners conquer fear. But true masters conquer themselves.
Frederick Espiritu
#89. I think it is important that you have people from all different vanguards, from all different walks of society and different viewpoints to be focused on the struggle for equality and democracy. We need as many champions for the cause and as many events as possible to help keep this in focus.
Lupe Fiasco
#90. I'm not going to say that I'm the best, we respect our champions. Floyd's been doing this a lot longer than me, he's been a lot of mega fights and I won't dare say that I'm better than Floyd Mayweather.
Andre Ward
#91. Great people and champions are special gifts of God, whom He gives and preserves; they do their work, and achieve great actions, not with vain imaginations, or cold and sleepy cogitations, but by motion of God.
Martin Luther
#92. Champions distinguish themselves from all others in that they are willing to sacrifice, suffer, and do everything that the nonchampions will not do.
Jerry Lynch
#94. The last time I cry was when I won the champions. It was one of the best moments in my life.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#95. The Breakfast of Champions isn't cereal, it's the competition!
David Lee Roth
#96. Dreaming is one of humanity's greatest gifts - it champions aspiration, spurs innovation, leads to change, and propels the world forward.
Richard Branson
#97. We can be much, much more than we were taught in teachers college ... more than stern ladies at the front of the room who teach children to recite by rote. We can be, we MUST BE, learning partners, champions, observers, explorers, friends- and , for these special hurt children we need to be family
Jenny Bowen
#98. Nike doesn't want to make products for everyone - they want to make products for champions.
Simon Sinek
#99. My "Kentucky NCAA Champions" shirt was by now so bloodstained, you would think I had worn it to a North Carolina game. Also, I had feathers sticking to my hair.
Barbara Kingsolver
#100. Champions are brilliant at the basics.
John Wooden
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