Sport Champion Quotes

#1. I didn't aspire to be a good sport; 'champion' was good enough for me.

Fred Perry

#2. While the truth is putting on its shoes, the lie becomes a champion of a long-distance running.

Ljupka Cvetanova

#3. In so-called communist Romania, chess was held in high esteem, even if our champions were weaker than the Soviets. This game, this "sport of the mind," was at the time a better way to establish your reputation than literature.

Dumitru Tepeneag

#4. In the history of each sport, the heroes who win the Olympic gold medal are the ones we remember. Nobody remembers the World Champion 25 years ago, but everyone remembers who the Olympic Champions were, even 100 years ago.

Lavinia Milosovici

#5. As an Olympic champion gymnast, I have always stayed involved in my sport.

Nadia Comaneci

#6. There never was a champion who to himself was a good loser. There's a vast difference between a good sport and a good loser.

Earl Blaik

#7. Throughout the history of the sport, the heavyweight champion has been ... a reason to talk about boxing at the water cooler.

Teddy Atlas

#8. Sport has long occupied a special place in the hearts of Australians, and today the nation welcomes a new champion to the pantheon. Cadel Evans, cyclist extraordinaire.

Paul Ramadge

#9. Boxing is a dying sport, really. Years ago, the world heavyweight champion could be said to have reached the highest pinnacle of sport. Even in this country, boxers were heroes. Think of Henry Cooper and Frank Bruno.

Tyson Fury

#10. The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.

Jean-Claude Killy

#11. Essentially, I am a dreamer. I've dreamed all my life. When I started, I dreamed I'd be Champion because it is a sport that is all about the people who win the most, and I have a fear of not winning.

Tony McCoy

#12. Boxing is a sport, but it's also entertainment. I wanted to transcend the sport and be considered just not as a fighter, or a champion, but someone very special.

Sugar Ray Leonard

#13. A true champion of love and sport wears it proudly in all aspects of life.

Jennifer Ott

#14. The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think may happen doesn't happen. A champion is beaten, an unknown becomes a champion.

Roger Bannister

#15. In the 1950s, when I was hanging around Sullivan's Gym and the Gramercy Gym, there were fixed fights. Mob guys like Frankie Carbo and Blinky Palermo had taken over the sport; one lightweight champion loaned his title to others at least twice; the welterweight division was a slag heap.

Pete Hamill

#16. 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

#17. My father was an army champion boxer ... in the British army. And so he loved boxing and talked it up as a sport. But then when my brother and I were beating the crap out of each other, he was always trying to tone it down. But I am a fan of boxing.

Hugh Jackman

#18. You can win all the tournaments you want, but the majors are what you're remembered for. It's how you're measured as a champion in our sport. The majors are where it's at.

Tiger Woods

#19. After you have seasoned your gloves with the blood, sweat and tears of your opponents, all else is anticlimactic.

Brian D'Ambrosio

#20. My greatest influences in my sport have been two former number one English lady darts players, Deta Hedman and Mandy Solomons. Deta helped me at international events and both helped me to cope with the big occasion which gave me the confidence I needed to become a champion.

Trina Gulliver