Champion Quotations

Research confirms that both Republican and Democratic women are more likely than their male counterparts to initiate and fight for bills that champion social justice, protect the environment, advocate for families, and promote nonviolent conflict resolution.

You have to bear in mind that Mr. Autry's favorite horse was named Champion. He ain't ever had one called Runner Up.

For your friends and family, you are always a champion, but for the media and sponsors, not until you show a spark. Making a champ is more important than celebrating one. I want to be there for youngsters and help them do their best.

Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.

Every week you have to play well to be the champion.

I'll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we'll be champions.

I always loved reading. I always was the spelling bee champion. I always loved words. I always wanted to know what they meant, why you used them, who first said them. I was always interested in that.

If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart.

Be very strong... be very methodical in your life if you want to be a champion.

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

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

Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had.

The American Communists had thrived as champions of domestic reform.

What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.

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

Take the feeling of hunger out of your gut, and you're no longer a champion

When at a young age you learn to face your fears, that makes the difference between people being champions and people not being champions.

I still am champion in my own right.

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.

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.

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.

I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.

I'm happy to belong to this group of top champions having excelled here.

An athlete must have ability to reach the top, but many who have ability and who do not live clean lives never have and never will be champions for obvious reasons.

I can't even imagine what it's like and right now I'm like in shock, I can't believe that I'm Olympic Champion.

A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.

In Cuba we use our champions to promote the sport.

A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol.

Only one guy can be world champion, and so if everyone else thought they were failures you'd have no one left on the grid.

When I was a boxer, I wanted to be champion of the world, not the richest man in the world.

What could be better than walking down any street in any city and knowing you're the heavyweight champion of the world?

I don't want ever to be champion again.

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

You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings.

They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.

My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a hard relationship with my dad, he became a father figure to me.

I'm not normally a jewelry person. I'm supposed to be a working class champion and all, and I don't like to rub my success in people's faces.

First of all I thought it was ugly, I thought it was ridiculous that undercover police guys would drive a striped tomato and I've never been a big champion of Ford.

Regaining the Champions Cup is not going to be easy.

What happened in the past is just that, the past. Champion or not.

I don't want to be remembered as a beaten champion.

I've been training super hard at the Lopez Taekwondo Academy in Houston, which belongs to my brother Jean. For me, I think confidence is the biggest thing; it's all mental. I train with the best of the best, including my brother Steven, a five-time world champion who won Olympic gold medals.

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.

The way to know about championship quality is to learn from champions, and that I did; studying them with professional purpose during my time in the ring and from habitual interest afterward.

Do you have any ambitions outside racing? My main ambition at the moment, whether inside or outside racing, is to become Formula 1 World Champion.

Bitumen, the new national staple, is redefining the character and destiny of Canada. Rapid development of the tar sands has created a foreign policy that favours the export of bitumen to the United States and lax immigration standards that champion the import of global bitumen workers.

But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and say so.

Since I was a boy of five or six, I had it in my mind I would be a world boxing champion.

What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.

To be a champion you must act like one, act like a champion.

Although I have to say, it's become a lot harder for me since I won the world series because everyone wants to beat me. For example, bluffing is really tough now, because there's always someone who calls me on the off-chance that they'll then be able to say they read a world champion's bluff.

I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.

People still look at me as the champion and that's very important to me.

Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.

I was ready in 2008 for the Olympic Games but unfortunately I missed the Kenyan trials with a thigh injury. I watched those Olympics but it was tough to watch. But it was good in the end because a Kenyan, Wilfred Bungei, was the champion.

My goal is to be the undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the World.

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.

Whatever luck I had, I made. I was never a natural athlete, but I paid my dues in sweat and concentration and took the time necessary to learn karate and become world champion.

The thing that I champion is sustainability. My terror is that suddenly we see it as a luxury, not an essential. That's a danger.

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.

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.

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

To my mind ClickThings, and John Underwood are world champion caliber, and I am delighted to have the opportunity to partner with them.

I think that the World Champion should try to defend the quality of play more than anyone else.

I lost three times in my career. Losing to Holmes I could deal with, because I lost to a true champion.

Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.

People know I was the last true champion.

There have been great champions in every generation.

The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages.

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.

I champion sensibly designed racial affirmative action, not because I have benefited from it personally - though I have. I support it because, on balance, it is conducive to the public good.

It's good that the first half of the speech emphasized freedom, because George W. Bush has been the global champion for freedom. As he said, if we don't fight tyranny it will not leave us alone in peace.

To be a champion, you have to learn to handle stress and pressure. But if you've prepared mentally and physically, you don't have to worry.

The mission I set out on in the beginning - to become heavyweight champion of the world, undisputed, lineal champion - you could say that mission is complete.

Ali and I have become friends over the years. I was on a plane with him one time when he was the champion.

Recently I saw Kasparov and he looked to me as still young and potent champion.

Ask me what makes a champion runner, and I will tell you it helps to have the great good sense to choose your parents carefully.

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.

Rhetorically, President Obama is a champion of bipartisanship. In practice, though, he is almost always its enemy.

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

If you're the Olympic champion then they have to wait four more years to get you again.

If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.

I was an optimist, a great champion of the human spirit. And I lost that for a time. I feel like I've regained a bit of that in the last few years but there was a period of my life in which I had a very low opinion of people in general.

I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.

I always wanted to be Olympic champion and do clean programs.

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

I can't remember the last day I didn't train.

I'm playing right now a role, and the role is called the 'Heavyweight Champion of the World.' And it takes all of the time. And I love this role, and it takes a lot of attention for me for the sport, and I just don't want to lose the title, so that's why I have to stay focused and not become an actor.

I'm damn successful but I got here by not taking crap. I still don't take crap, so if anybody needs a champion, let it be me.

I would like to champion diverse forms like graphic novels and works told in verse and diverse writers and illustrators and diverse authors as well.

I'm trying to champion the naturalist's worldview and show it's not as heathen as most religious people would make it out to be.

I started a business with two guys I played with, Ronnie Lott and Harris Barton: Champion Ventures, it's a fund of funds. We have $400 million or so under management.

You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.

But research confirms that both Republican and Democratic women are more likely than their male counterparts to initiate and fight for bills that champion social justice, protect the environment, advocate for families, and promote nonviolent conflict resolution.

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.

It's not my place to compare myself to greats like Tyson, Frazier or men like that. But I would look at a fighter like Evander Holyfield. He's a great heavyweight who worked his way up through the weight classes to become champion and had to beat bigger men along the way.

The goal of higher education should be to champion the airing of all honest viewpoints. Nothing less is acceptable.

Sometimes you need to get hit in the head to realize that you're in a fight.

Nike doesn't want to make products for everyone - they want to make products for champions.

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.