Champion Quotes

I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them.

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

What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win.

History serves as a model not only of who and what we are to be, we learn what to champion and what to avoid.

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

For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I'm working on it.

We have never had a more qualified and capable champion of personal and economic freedom than the 2012 Libertarian Party candidate for President of the United States - Governor Gary Johnson.

One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people - men of the stature of Garry Kasparov, the former world champion, who was my part-time coach.

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

The Games were created for the glorification of the individual champion.

A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.

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

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.

Being a world champion is something I'm already proud of and can take for the rest of my life.

I googled 'Gabby Douglas,' and all these things popped up like 'Gabby Douglas makes history!' And 'She's the champion!'

I want to thank America. You opened your heart so I could enter. Thank you everybody who lives in the United States, who saw me grow into becoming a world champion.

I was born to be champion of the world.

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

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

To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.

The Internal Revenue Service is the real undefeated heavyweight champion.

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

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

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.

Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

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

Hopefully I can become the Babe Ruth of the World Wrestling Federation and be the champion at the same time.

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

It was a dream of mine to be an Olympic champion but not a lifelong goal.

My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We've all been very athletic.

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

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

I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.

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

It is very good to be Olympic champion, but that is not the strongest field.

My cousin Simon Bor, the champion of Los Angeles, convinced me to concentrate on running.

I would like to become champion, but I'm realistic about it.

People know I was the last true champion.

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.

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.

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 to be remembered as a beaten champion.

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

A true champion can adapt to anything.

A true champion will fight through anything.

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.

There's a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.

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.

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.

Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one.

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

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

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

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

It is a burden because I get asked about my father all the time. I just need to accept that he was a champion before me.

For me it was a normality having a father who was a world champion. I grew up with that, so it was never extra pressure. And I've never felt the need to emerge from his shadow.

If I wasn't a champion, I'd still be in jail. That makes me try very hard.

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.

I don't want ever to be champion again.

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

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

I still am champion in my own right.

I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.

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

You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.

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.