Champion Quotes - Page 5

• In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I was a King and when you are King you feel a lot of responsibility, but there is nobody there to help you.

  Boris Spassky

  Country, Kings, Responsibility

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• Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Inspiring, Stay Strong, Giving Up

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• But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero, Trying, Trials

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.134, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A true champion is someone who wants to make a difference, who never gives up, and who gives everything she has no matter what the circumstances are. A true champion works hard and never loses sight of her dreams.

  Dot Richardson

  Softball, Sports, Dream

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  The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspirational, Strength, Motivational Sports

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

  Jack Dempsey

  Idols, Pay, Helping

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• I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

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• A champion isn’t made of muscle; a champion is made of heart.

  Liang Chow

  Heart, Made, Muscles

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• 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.

  Esther Williams

  Sports, Space, Pages

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• Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Absurdity

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• A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

  Billie Jean King

  Motivational, Success, Sports

  FaceBook post by Billie Jean King from May 14, 2010

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

  Hulk Hogan

  Wrestling, World, Ruth

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• I knew that I had done something that no man had been able to do to a champion.

  Thomas Hearns

  Men, Done, Able

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• What happened in the past is just that, the past. Champion or not.

  Steve Nash

  Basketball, Past, Happened

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• Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.

  Major Taylor

  Father, Athlete, Winning

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• 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.

  John McEnroe

  Stay Strong, Winning, Tennis

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

  Armand Assante

  Fun, Ideas, Hollywood

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• I don't want ever to be champion again.

  Boris Spassky

  Want

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• 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.

  Jackie Stewart

  People, Might, Said

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

  Nadia Comaneci

  Motivational, Sports, Athlete

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• Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.

  Major Taylor

  Success, Typical, Modesty

  Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”

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• Upon awakening in the morning, I wondered if the proceedings of the night before had been a dream. It was hard to believe that I was the world's heavyweight champion.

  Gene Tunney

  Dream, Morning, Believe

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

  Jonah Goldberg

  Long, Hypocrisy, World

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

  Marvin Hagler

  People, Important, Looks

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

  Boris Spassky

  Saws, Young, Stills

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