Quotes About Champions

#1. We like to think of our champions and idols as superheroes who were born different from us. We don't like to think of them as relatively ordinary people who made themselves extraordinary.

Carol S. Dweck

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

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#3. Anyone will succeed in whatever field of endeavor in life by acquiring the same virtues and character that boxing world champions do - dedication, perseverance, courage, extreme self-discipline and prayers

Manny Pacquiao

#4. The Motto of Champions: If you are hurt, you can suck it up and press on. If injured, you can rebound and return bigger and better ... and continue to inspire!

T.F. Hodge

#5. I'm sure that not all Champions are serious all the time. It's just not stuff that gets written in the history scrolls, that's all.

Tyrean Martinson

#6. Champions do consistently what others do sporadically.

Orrin Woodward

#7. It certainly is a very difficult group,. We're still bleeding after the Champions League final and want our revenge.

Paolo Maldini

#8. To all my librarian friends, champions of books, true magicians in the House of Life. Without you, this writer would be lost in the Dust.

Rick Riordan

#9. 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

#10. Albus: First question. What do you know about the Triwizard tournament?
Scorpius(happy): Ooooh, a quiz! Three schools pick three champions to compete in three tasks for one cup. What's that got to do with anything?
Albus: You really are an enormous geek, you know that?
Scorpius: Ya-huh.

J.K. Rowling

#11. I do practice martial arts, more as a recreational thing, but a lot of my friends have been heavyweight champions the in mixed martial arts world.

Vin Diesel

#12. Just enough for a twelve-pack of beer, a pack of smokes, and a Bic lighter. Not exactly the breakfast of champions, but the perfect recipe for a man who is speedily losing his shit.

Vincent Zandri

#13. Most champions are built by punch the clock workouts rather than extraordinary efforts.

Dan John

#14. I am very proud to be featured, especially when you consider the outstanding champions who have had this honor. It is great company to be in.

Julius Erving

#15. Over a 10-season stretch from 1967 to 1976, eight Super Bowl champions either were the Raiders or had to beat the Raiders in the playoffs. The Jets, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Baltimore Colts, Miami, the Steelers each of the first two times ... we all had to deal with the Raiders.

Joe Greene

#16. Venus told me the other day that champions don't get nervous in tight situations. That really helped me a lot. I decided I shouldn't get nervous and just do the best I can.

Serena Williams

#17. You always recognize great champions ... how they come back from a loss.

Georges St-Pierre

#18. I'm an insomniac - the affliction of champions.

Emma Chase

#19. I have known many of those pretended champions for liberty in my time, yet do I not remember one that was not in his heart and in his family a tyrant.

Oliver Goldsmith

#20. Earlier on in the season I'd have been very surprised to think we could win this competition because there were some fantastic teams in it.
(on the Champions League)

Steven Gerrard

#21. My desire at Liverpool was to help get the club playing in the elite because they had been five years without it. We used to talk about it in the dressing room. If Liverpool are not in the Champions League, it is difficult to get the best players to come to the club.

Luis Suarez

#22. We like to imagine that in history, truth will prevail through sheer persuasive power. Sadly, this is not the case. Truth needs champions ...

Llewellyn Rockwell

#23. If I were to describe myself as any particular type of owner, it would be a fans' owner because you really get great satisfaction when you can go out on the streets and scream you're No. 1 and you're world champions.

Jeffrey Lurie

#24. Not to mention our former tag team champions lost their titles after my good friend Christian was hit in the genitals with a hockey stick by a midgit! I mean enough is enough

Kurt Angle

#25. Champions never brag, never shout, never have to go to extremes to build themselves up for others or put others down. They let their actions, deeds, and results speak for them.

Denis Waitley

#26. When the effort is in question, the ball goes in different directions and the ball doesn't always bounce your way. When you're playing in the home of the NBA champions, it isn't going to be easy.

Ray Allen

#27. As the 2016 presidential race kicks off, candidates on both sides of the aisle are promising to stand up for the middle class. Voters deserve to know that anyone who champions Obamacare cannot honestly say she or he is also a champion of middle-class Americans.

John Barrasso

#28. With the passing of Milton Friedman on November 16, 2006, we lost one of the great champions of free markets.

Steve Hanke

#29. Twentieth century music is like paedophilia. No matter how persuasively and persistently its champions urge their cause, it will never be accepted by the public at large, who will continue to regard it with incomprehension, outrage and repugnance.

Kingsley Amis

#30. Once the Champions Tour got in me and got a hold of me, I found out how great this Tour is and how much I enjoy it.

Kenny Perry

#31. For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other part of the body.

Gary Neville

#32. The Champions League is the competition everyone wants to be in.

Steven Gerrard

#33. I'm looking forward to meeting my new team-mates and to be playing for Arsenal in the Premier League and Champions League. I will give my best to Arsenal and want to make all the supporters happy.

Alexis Sanchez

#34. The great World Champions Morphy, Steinitz, and Lasker were past masters in the art of Pawn play; they had no superiors in their handling of endgames. The present World Champion has not the strength of the other three as an endgame player, and is therefore inferior to them.

Jose Raul Capablanca

#35. If I could apologise and go back and change history I would do. But the goal is still a goal, Argentina became world champions and I was the best player in the world.

Diego Maradona

#36. I had come looking for a parade, for a military review of champions marching in ranks. Instead I was left with a brawl of ancestors, a herd of dissenters, sometimes marching together but just as often marching away from each other.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#37. I was captain in Atletico at 19, playing in the same team as Demetrio Albertini, who won three Champions Leagues, and Sergi Barjuan from Barcelona, who had won everything, and they were 32, 33. I was a kid as captain, so I wasn't the real captain, just a kid learning from them.

Fernando Torres

#38. Be students
Be teachers
Be politicians
Be preachers
Be believers
Be astronauts
Be champions
Be truth seekers

The Script

#39. I love how he sometimes gets embarrassed by the mushy stuff between us and then his voice gets all gruff and he tickles me or kisses me to shut us both up. Boy, do we ever kiss. We make out like champions.

Cynthia Hand

#40. Whatever you've imagined your limits of strength and daring to be, the strongest woman in the world can inspire you to go beyond them. That's what champions are for.

Gloria Steinem

#41. Champions are champions not because they do anything extraordinary but because they do the ordinary things better than anyone else.

Chuck Noll

#42. Champions have no off-season.

Dan Bailey

#43. It disturbs me that Liverpool are not in the Champions League and fighting for the Premier League.

Luis Suarez

#44. True champions arent always the ones that win,but those with the most guts.

Mia Hamm

#45. The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.

Sam Snead

#46. Only true champions come out and show their worth after defeat- and I expect us to do that.

Alex Ferguson

#47. But I think the Champions League Final puts a massive pressure on every player and the manager, but we're enjoying the pressure and hopefully we can go there and win it.

Steven Gerrard

#48. The Philadelphia Phillies are 2008 world champions of baseball.

Harry Kalas

#49. WE WENT OUT THERE ON A MISSION, CAME BACK CHAMPIONS. WE PROVED WE WERE THE BEST TEAM IN THE WORLD.

Brad Marchand

#50. The Pentagon isn't a place that champions individuality and innovation.

Aimee Mullins

#51. You can win the Champions League in the worst season.

Roberto Di Matteo

#52. Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

Mahatma Gandhi

#53. While the Governor, and the Mayor, and countless officers of the Commonwealth are at large, the champions of liberty are imprisoned.

Henry David Thoreau

#54. No one alive today has a single ancestor in his or her past who died in infancy. We are the champions, my friend!

Daniel J. Levitin

#55. The champions are the team with the most points ... if United have more points, it means they have more points, that's all. Nothing else.

Rafael Benitez

#56. 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

#57. I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I'm inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

Conor McGregor

#58. I have always watched the Race of Champions on TV every year and dreamed about participating one day. It's fantastic to be invited; I'm so happy. To represent Team Germany together with Michael Schumacher is a great honor.

Sebastian Vettel

#59. I seek to fight the best out there. I seek to fight the champions in every division I go up to.

Nonito Donaire

#60. Champions are propelled by desire, not compelled by fear

Denis Waitley

#61. Hopefully, we can build a rivalry and we'll be able to do this a lot. Make a legacy, then retire champions.

Serena Williams

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

Martin McGuinness

#63. Today, you can buy chess programs for $49 that will beat all but world champions, yet no one thinks they're intelligent.

Anonymous

#64. I know that a good many champions have entertained the thought that the more they discourage youngsters, the longer they would reign. However, this theory never impressed me, and I always made it a point to give youths the benefit of my experience in bicycle racing.

Major Taylor

#65. These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war.

H.W. Brands

#66. Sometimes, of course, the war required that he be cruel, but what cause worth fighting for did not require cruelty of its champions once in a while?

Clive Barker

#67. Losers have tons of variety. Champions just take pride in learning to hit the same old boring winning shots.

Vic Braden

#68. On golfer Rory McIlroy's collapse in the final round of the 2011 Masters: We had hoped to compare the young Northern Irishman to the great Masters champions but instead had to reach for the compendium of great golfing train wrecks.

Matt Dickinson

#69. Those who stay will be champions

Bo Schembechler

#70. True champions are team players.

Alan Cohen

#71. The impossibility of being human all too human this breathing in and out out and in these punks these cowards these champions these mad dogs of glory moving this little bit of light toward us impossibly.

Charles Bukowski

#72. Where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand; For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mast'ry.

John Milton

#73. Their incredible determination creates the need for nonlinear thinking, combined with boundless energy. Champions also earn money in nonlinear ways. While the masses essentially trade their time for money, the great ones realize this is probably the worst way to acquire wealth. Using

Steve Siebold

#74. One of the bravest, grandest champions of human liberty the world has ever seen.

{Darrow on the great Robert Ingersoll}

Clarence Darrow

#75. Champions have the courage to keep turning the pages because they know a better chapter lies ahead.

Paula White

#76. Champions of Liberty get called Fascists by Champions of Statism

Jonah Goldberg

#77. The real champions in life are so humble and gracious. They just continue doing what they do without all the posturing. If you've got the real thing, you don't have to flaunt a loud imitation.

Denis Waitley

#78. Mileage makes champions

Steve Fairbairn

#79. We're going to be World Champions ... forever.

Alex Morgan

#80. The other champions don't want to fight me. Every single one.

Sergio Martinez

#81. Champions are everywhere, you just have to train them properly

Arthur Lydiard

#82. Whom does the Grail serve? It serves those who quest despite the odds - for they are the champions of enlightenment.

Laurence Gardner

#83. You know, I'd actually say Lionel Messi. He's so remarkable, watching him play he's probably still undervalued. When you're scoring five goals in one Champions League match, there's no value that's too high.

Billy Beane

#84. In April 2013, Nathaniel Popper of 'The New York Times' reported on Bitcoin in an article titled, 'Digital Money is Gaining Champions in the Real World'.

Steve Hanke

#85. I watched Arsenal in the Champions League the other week playing some of the best football I've ever seen and yet they couldn't have scored in a brothel with two grand in their pockets!

Ian Holloway

#86. It is absolutely vital that we do all we can to allow Americans to practice their religious ways, while simultaneously ensuring that no one's beliefs infringe upon those of others. We should also serve as champions of freedom of religion throughout the world.

Benjamin Carson

#87. Champions know that there's something inside that makes a champion, and other people think that it might something external.

Urijah Faber

#88. Feedback is the breakfast of champions

Kenneth H. Blanchard

#89. Bonnie made a joke now as she served him his martini. She made the same joke every time she served anybody a martini. "Breakfast of Champions," she said.

Kurt Vonnegut

#90. Champions all get kicked when they're down.

Apolo Ohno

#91. When it came to portraying couples who never directly connected, the Newmans were the Olympic gold champions

Jeanine Basinger

#92. I have no problem with two teams claiming to be national champions at the end of the year. But that's our society. We're dying to know who the champion is. Heaven forbid we have two. That would be socialist, right?

Kirk Ferentz

#93. All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys, The champions and enthusiasts of the state: Turbid ardors and vain joys Not barrenly abate
Stimulants to the power mature, Preparatives of fate.

Herman Melville

#94. I have a feeling we are going to be world champions, I can't really explain why. Brazil are probably the best team in the world in terms of individual players. But the team with the most gifted players do not always win.

Oliver Kahn

#95. Sleep: the breakfast of champions

Dean Cavanagh

#96. In the West, people pride themselves on being the defenders of democratic rights and the champions of freedom. But if the Western world really cares for the benevolence of the whole world, it will have to turn to introspection.

Nirmala Srivastava

#97. Basketball Rule #10

A loss is inevitable,
like snow in winter.
True champions
learn
to dance
through
the storm.

Kwame Alexander

#98. As a professional journalist who nonetheless champions a 'people's' Internet, I am happy to compete against the thousands of amateur bloggers out there reporting and commenting on the same stories I do.

Douglas Rushkoff

#99. The rose blinds the sharpshooting champions.

Roque Dalton

#100. The Redskins have been active champions in the fight against childhood obesity through our commitment with the NFL Play 60 program.

Daniel Snyder