Champion Quotes

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.

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.

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'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.

The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.

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

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

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.

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

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

There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.

That was the fight. I knew that I had done something that no man had been able to do to a champion.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

This sweet, blessed, God-inspired place called America is a champion that has absorbed some blows. But while we bend, we don't break. This is no dark hour; this is the dawn before we remember who we are.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

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.

Because I was a champion swimmer in Canada, they're always trying to get me in the water in movies! I've drawn the line now with this film. No more water!

I had never, ever drunk beer in high school, and by the time I got to Tech we were having these parties out in the cotton fields and getting so drunk. I was the champion beer drinker; suddenly I was pouring it down my throat... Insane! Insane!

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

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.

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

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice.

People know I was the last true champion.

As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.

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

I don't want ever to be champion again.

I was World Series champion in individual and synchro for the first time which was awesome.

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

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.

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.