Champions Quotations

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

I was surprised how relevant the Moses story was to contemporary American debates - from our ongoing debate about values, to our role as champions of freedom, to our place as a country that welcome immigrants.

Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means 'the love of wisdom.'

The Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am is a very strong tournament that got even stronger with today's news. Outback has been very innovative and creative since coming on board as a Champions Tour title sponsor in 2004. We are very excited about this extension through 2010 and adding yet another tournament to our lineup of events on NBC.

The positive things from Wednesday are that we have one more Champions League point, and we were better than Chelsea,

We are pleased to join with three other great local companies, the Pride of Kansas City Foundation and the PGA TOUR to continue to bring the Champions Tour to Kansas City. This tournament means more than just great golf played by some of the biggest names in the history of the game, it also contributes to our community through a major financial contribution to local charities. Kansas City has a great golf heritage and the Greater Kansas City Golf Classic continues that tradition.

We are aiming high in the Champions League and you will see a different team on Tuesday,

We've been 30 points adrift of the champions for the last two seasons, and although there are still three games to play, it's clear for everyone we're a lot closer now.

We're maybe not so physically strong. It doesn't really matter in the Champions League but maybe in the Premiership we have suffered a little bit for it, but I think in Europe we look really sharp. Unfortunately, we have not been able to cope with the physical side and we have suffered from that. In Europe we have been allowed to play more football.

We're going to throw some people into some different events. We might try Michael in the 400, and we might switch our distance runners around a little bit. We're looking to qualify as many people as we can for the Meet of Champions later this month. This week and next week will be a great opportunity to do that.

We're going to get the best manager to take us to a Champions League place and perhaps to the top of the SPL.

When we beat them there (in Barcelona) in the Champions League (in 2002) no one applauded us. If we play well and win that will be great and if we play badly and win that will be great too.

We're going to be the U.S. Open champions playing that match,

We have to go play what seems like the World Champions in Tampa. We have to win every day, and we're going to play the team that's actually given us the most problems. We have to play good baseball.

We have to get at least two state champions and two others have to place in the top four. If that happens we'll be in a good place for winning (the team title).

We are all very disappointed about going out of the Champions League but we have to put it behind us and think about going to Arsenal. We still have the league and the FA Cup. The world moves on.

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

We did let a good opportunity to be world champions slip away.

We did great and I'm really proud of the way the guys wrestled. Five of our wrestlers made it to the finals, three took away titles and eight placed. We're three time defending champions but never have we won by this sizable a margin. It's difficult for us up there because we're not part of the North coast section.

The on-pitch competition to be crowned champions of Europe can have a significant influence on the position of clubs.

We decided not to play another game because winning it won't make us the district champions out right. We just talked about it, and we came to a verbal agreement over who would have the No. 1 and 2 seeds.

We've been in the title hunt before, but last season we just happened to finish it off. Our attitudes as coaches and as a team haven't changed since 2002. We're still the national champions until Aug. 27, and then we become the defending national champions. And hopefully if we play well throughout the course of the season, we'll get a chance to play in Florence on national TV once again.

We really enjoyed the match tonight and it was great fun. It showed what Lyon are now capable of doing in this Champions League.

We have played pretty good on the road, and Coach always tells us that champions have to win on the road.

There are a lot of champions out there, a lot of great guys, but I think that the way I compete and my fighting style makes me perfect for Reebok.

The professionals of the Champions Tour are unique in the world of sports. Our players actively look for ways to bring fans inside their professional world. This trip is a unique example. It's quite remarkable when you think about it.

We have high expectations. Our goal is to become (Imperial Valley League) champions and hopefully get back to that CIF championship game.

This puts me back, ... I'm already in the top 10 in both The Ring and the IBF, but this just puts me back as a serious player in the minds of all contenders and champions and challengers." ()

There are very few highway-safety champions in Congress, and he is definitely one of them.

There are two meets that count (sectional and state), and this isn't one of them. Sure this is a confidence builder, but you want to beat the champions at the championship meet.

We're setting up for the Tournament of Champions -- that's district play. We had to get the kinks out so we can be ready and prepare for the district season.

Let's face it. There is no setup in Pakistan to train and groom young players at the grassroots level in different sports. Those of us who did make a name for ourselves and became champions did it with our own initiative - there was no academy to back us till we reached a certain level on our own.

So many champions and good horses have come from this program; it's proven ground. These horses are on the come; they have so much upside to them.

Maybe we spend a lot of money, but this money is not spent for nothing. We won the League and Carling Cup last season, we went to the semifinal of the Champions League and this year we are top of the League. Sometimes you have to spend money for the good reason and this is the good reason.

My intention is to compete until I'm 54. So if I join the Champions Tour, it will only be for four years - no more than that. I'm in the golf course design business. This is my future. I'd rather go to a place where there is nothing and design a golf course. This will be a good legacy for me to leave.

One's true character shows through when you're faced with adversity, and our kids were force fed some this week, but responded like champions tonight. If we want to make a run at the NCIC, we know we've got to run the table because you can't expect Rock Falls to lose more than one game, so tonight we took that first step.

Ocean Champions has the potential to be one of the most transformative things we've ever done in the whole conservation movement.

One year ago they (the players) were just happy to play. Some didn't even know what the Tournament of Champions was.

Maybe they are these young crazy kids and they didn't know they were supposed to wilt. At that point, we felt like, 'OK, here it comes. We're going to go on a roll and it will be, Nice job, Riverside, thanks for showing up.' But they hung tough and did what champions do.

Maybe the expectations are more on the likes of Spurs and Arsenal. That could free us. Although we are happy enough to be in the mix, we are not content with just that. We want to make sure we do everything in our ability to get that Champions League place.

Now we intend to finish the job with another victory. If we do that we will be virtually through into the knockout stages. We have been very positive in our Champions League matches and I hope that we can continue this now.

Obviously if you are at The Players Champions or the Masters, which are elite events, and your defending champion is in the hunt, you get a number of on-air mentions. That can't hurt.

Right now, it's disappointing. Hopefully, when you look back on it -- we were conference champions, district champions, Farmington Invitational champions and Christmas tournament champions -- it was a good year.

I was sitting there in May not really playing much after the French, kind of deciding what route I wanted to go, ... I didn't really expect to finish up so strong. To have a Grand Slam title and then the Champions Race No. 1 trophy as well, it's been a ride since then.

I was shocked to see how little resistance Stuttgart offered although they wanted to get into the Champions League.

I wouldn't say what was said got under our skin. There were things said before the last Champions League game and we felt we had been talked about it a bad way. But we put it right in the league game up there which is the main place to do your talking.

I would have to say that a lot of it is my own making, ... I've been kind of lazy the last few years. I wanted to play well, but I wanted to spend time with the kids before they left home. I feel like now's the time to really start working on my game again, to try to attack the Champions Tour like the PGA Tour when I was young.

I would definitely have to say the championship game was the greatest experience. Puerto Rico was a very tough team and the defending champions. For us to go and beat the reigning champions was something that we'll never forget.

If we keep playing well in the Champions League, that can help in the Premiership. But there are big differences -- it's much more physical in England.

If we carry on like this we can achieve some big things. We've got a great chance of winning the Champions League, but we have to take it step by step, game by game. We know it won't be easy to get to the final.

I'd like to wrap it up with three in a row and be national champions next year.

I don't know what to expect, except that these are champions coming back to prove themselves. I know it's going to be everything they've got. The good thing is, that's how they play anyway. I don't know how much more they can bring.

I don't know what the Champions Trophy is all about.

I don't care if Cuba wins or loses every game. I just want to see them play. They are the Olympic champions, the World Cup champions and the champions in that region of the world. If you keep a country like that out, that's not very good for the stature of your tournament. Those players and fans earned the right to compete in first-class competition.

I don't care what tour you play. PGA, LPGA or Champions -- it does help to come back to a place where you have had success. You have good vibes about the golf course.

Ideally we'd like three points for our Champions League ambition but it is always hard getting one when Harry has got Pompey in this sort of form.

I am happy with the change of coach. It is true that on a point perspective we are a little bit frustrated. But the change of coach was not destined to have short-term effects. We are still in the race for a place in the Champions League.

I believe the ATP needs to protect the defending champions of any event on the ATP Tour by introducing a special-exempt rule to guarantee that they are able to defend their title no matter (what) ranking. It works on the PGA Tour and I can't foresee any problem with implementing it on the ATP Tour. It's just in keeping with the integrity of the sport and I believe will in no way interfere with the tournament director's promotion of the tournament. It may even be of benefit.

I am satisfied we could push the world champions into a fifth day and that was our moral victory.

I am real pleased. Some of the teams ahead of us are ex-state champions with great tradition, and we are just eight strokes out of first.

But they are still in the Champions League and they have got a great chance. It's been a topsy-turvy season for them.

But the Champions League cannot be our only objective because as we have seen in the past, it only takes one bad 45 minutes to ruin a year's work.

Bayern Munich were favorites after thrashing Sporting Lisbon 12-1. The Nou Camp is not the same as Lisbon. Teams get destroyed and never look back to the occasion that they were in the Champions League

Bayern Munich are, in my mind, the favorites to win the Champions League. It's quite possible that we'll meet Bayern in the final. I'd even say that Bayern are our greatest challenge to winning the Champions League.

I have lots of confidence on this course. It's one of the best driving courses we play on the Champions Tour. Just enough rough to give you some problems.

I feel sure we are going to win either the league or the Champions League. We are a much tougher team that we were at the start of the season and a lot more dangerous.

I fought my heart out, did everything I could. He played a little too good. He really started going for broke on some of those, and champions make those. I'm happy for the game of tennis. This match was hyped four or five days ago and I feel like at least it lived up to it. If there's anyone I'm cheering for, it's Andre.

I fought my heart out, did everything I could, ... He played a little too good. He really started going for broke on some of those, and champions make those. I'm happy for the game of tennis. This match was hyped four or five days ago and I feel like at least it lived up to it.

Give Indian Land credit because they battled back and got back in the game. They are the defending region champions and they showed they're going to defend it in a tough way.

Given the choice between winning the Champions League or the Italian league title, I think our fans would choose the Champions League,

Gabriela and Patrick are champions of broad, magnetic appeal. Gianni is a scholar of broad journalistic and literary accomplishment. They represent a worldwide spread Australia, Argentina and Italy.

I don't think it's an issue, I don't think there's any question right now of players being rested for the Champions Trophy.

I don't think it is right for us at Manchester United to be talking about winning the European Cup. Over the last few years we have slipped a noose round our own necks by consistently saying we have to win the Champions League because we have not won it since 1999. What we should be doing is concentrating on the Premiership.

If someone comes and champions it, then maybe it will come back up. But I don't see that happening.

He has some useful Premiership and Champions League experience and his versatility provides me with cover,

We expect to get their best shot. They're not the defending Super Bowl champions for no reason.

We took a big step forward today, especially for the Champions League. But there is no reason to spend the week celebrating - there are still a lot of matches left.

We're playing the defending Eastern Conference champions the next two games. We've got to come out mentally focused.

We've given the reigning champions a two-goal start but by the end of the game we were playing them off the park.

Today has given us a psychological boost ahead of that match. We have taken two points off the champions while Saracens will be coming off the back of a 50-point defeat at Northampton and they are bound to be a pretty unhappy camp. We have arrested our downward slide and I am very pleased with this result.

To commemorate the six times champions of the world that the Brazilian football team will become this year, I'm taking the Brazilian soccer team shirt.

He reminds me to not worry and to stick things out. His first at-bat was in Yankee Stadium in front of 60,000 people with Mickey Mantle in center field and he had to step out of the batter's box. But he realized those same champions took the same first steps that he was taking.

Having those champions is great in just two years.

He's a champion. Champions play like that. Champions practice like that.

He's a great player. He scores goals in the league, in cup competitions and also in the Champions League,

He's been doing a lot of one-on-one sessions with the players, giving them advice. He's been trying hard. He's been doing a lot of work and we've gone a long way. We're very close. We won the Champions Trophy with the same team. If we get it right we can win games.

He deserves it, he is a fantastic player. He has won everything, apart from the Champions League, which I am praying he can do,

Jose won't let him come but I would have taken him. They need their players for the Champions League so there is little chance of Glen coming.

Joe is a great champion. I have a lot of respect for him, ... That's why I wanted this fight so bad, because I have a lot of respect for him and I considered him, up until me winning the world title, one of the best champions in the division. And I want to fight the best.

I think the HSBC Champions is going to be a really exciting fixture on our golfing calendar and with a prize fund of US$5 million, the largest in the history of Asian and Chinese golf, it is an event we all want to win.

I think the fact that Arsenal are out of the running in the league and the cups will make them even more dangerous. Like us, they have got to try and win something this year. That means they've got to try and win the Champions League.

I was curious to see my players after their first Champions League game and they played very, very well,

It is something which Chelsea have to cope with - they have to cope with it in the Premiership, and they will have to cope with it in the Champions League because teams are going to give them that respect,

I thought we competed well. I was proud of our efforts and I think we are right where we need to be in preparation for the conference meet. It is really good experience for us to go up against defending national champions in the Auburn men and their number two women's squad. For us to get some wins and some close decisions is a credit to our team.

I think we showed a lot of tenacity when we took the doubles point against Florida. We played Florida close and went up against the defending indoor champions in Baylor, and the team showed a lot of toughness.

It has been a huge effort by everybody. And to have earned the points we needed against a Chelsea team who are great champions is even more satisfying. A Uefa Cup place will help us in the recruitment of new players next season and I don't expect any of our current squad to want to leave now.