Champion Quotes

I've always been working just to be a world champion and it's a dream come true.

A true champion will fight through anything.

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

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

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

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

I wanted to be a world champion.

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

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

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

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

So, I didn't say we are going to win a lot, but we are going to play like winners, and we've got a plan in place to teach our guys how to play like winners and play like a champion.

All these nice people saying I'm going to be world champion won't make me any faster, you have to believe it yourself.

I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal.

Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the cause. Perhaps he will start to champion perjury statutes and obstruction of justice.

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

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

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

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

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 senior year of high school, when I was getting recruited for college, my dad goes to me, 'You can become an Olympic champion.' And that's the first time that I'd heard someone else say that to me. I was like, 'Uh, are you talking to me?'

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.

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.

I am now the Wimbledon champion, and I think that gives me even more confidence coming to the Olympics. And maybe in some ways, it maybe takes some pressure off the Olympics, because I already did win at Wimbledon this year.

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.

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.

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

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

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.

My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We're from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers.