Champion Quotes
- Page 4I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
Billie Jean King
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.
Jack Dempsey
We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.
Jimmy Carter
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.
Paul M. Glaser
I didn't have to win, and winning wasn't important to me. Being world champion wasn't important to me. What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.
Dwayne Johnson
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.
Roger Bannister
In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.
Althea Gibson
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.
Pat Riley
In terms of playing ability there is nothing to choose between number one and 100. Instead, it's a question of who believes and who wants it more? Which player is mentally stronger? Which player is going to fight the hardest in the big points? These are the things that determine who is the champion.
Novak Djokovic
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.
Sete Gibernau
The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.
John Madden
What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win.
Patty Berg
To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well.
Anatoly Karpov
As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.
Marion Jones
I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them.
Armand Assante
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.
Hugh Jackman
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.
Chris Moneymaker
I was World Series champion in individual and synchro for the first time which was awesome.
Tom Daley
That was the fight. I knew that I had done something that no man had been able to do to a champion.
Thomas Hearns
I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'
Muhammad Ali
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.
Artur Davis
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.
Mark Webber
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!
Estella Warren
Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one.
Jose Mourinho
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.
Tara Lipinski
To my mind ClickThings, and John Underwood are world champion caliber, and I am delighted to have the opportunity to partner with them.
Boomer Esiason