Champion Quotes - Page 17

• The high point of my career was winning the Champions League. No one will ever erase that from my memory, in the same way that no one will ever erase the fact that I did it in a Manchester United shirt.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Inspirational, Memories, Winning

  "In his own words: Ronaldo reveals all about Ferguson, his football dreams and his future". Interview with Bruno Prata, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2008.

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• I am confident that you brothers in parliament will champion the will of the people over that of the occupier.

  Muqtada al Sadr

  Brother, People, Parliament

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• Ofili is still a champion. It would be a huge mistake to think otherwise.

  Jerry Saltz

  Mistake, Thinking, Would Be

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• Nike doesn't want to make products for everyone - they want to make products for champions.

  Simon Sinek

  Nike, Want, Products

  "If The CEO Speaks, Make Sure He Says Why" by Simon Sinek, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 16, 2010.

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• Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision. Both are part of something I believe is absolutely necessary to building the life of a champion, a winner, a person of high character who is consistently at the top of whatever game he or she is in.

  Emmitt Smith

  Success, Dream, Believe

  "Game On". Book by Emmitt Smith, abcnews.go.com. September 2011.

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• I'm damn successful but I got here by not taking crap. I still don't take crap, so if anybody needs a champion, let it be me.

  Paul Stanley

  Successful, Needs, Damn

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• Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'

  Daniel Tammet

  Chess, Great American, Fischer

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• I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.

  Donald Trump

  Inspirational, Success, Business

  FaceBook post by Donald J. Trump from Nov 21, 2016

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• Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Player, Chess, Facts

  "How Does the Brain Work?". "NOVA scienceNOW", www.pbs.org. September 14, 2011.

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

  Sebastian Vettel

  Nice, Believe, People

  "Vettel: 'They called me Baby Schumi. I didn't like it but I understood'" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2010.

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• If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Failure

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• Creating emotion was what my career was all about. I wanted people to laugh at me; I wanted people to cry with me. I wanted people to feel good or to think about something when they watched me. I think that's why, even not being an Olympic champion, I have such a huge following around the world.

  Johnny Weir

  Thinking, Careers, Creating

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• The teachers' unions that block school reform have done serious damage to the union brand. The public no longer views unions as their friend, much less their champion. They view them as corrupt, intransigent and more interested in protecting their political clout within the Democratic Party than protecting their members or even school children.

  Juan Williams

  Teacher, Children, Block

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• Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.102, B&H Publishing Group

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  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.

  Tiger Woods

  Sports, Winning, Want

  "Tiger Woods on top of his game, and the world" by Mike Celizic, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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• I'm trying to champion the naturalist's worldview and show it's not as heathen as most religious people would make it out to be.

  Greg Graffin

  Religious, People, Trying

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• As a professional journalist who nonetheless champions a 'people's' Internet, I am happy to compete against the thousands of amateur bloggers out there reporting and commenting on the same stories I do.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  People, Stories, Internet

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• Every child needs a champion.

  Unknown

  Children, Vision, Needs

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2012). “It Takes a Village”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks or a champion college footballer suddenly confronted by Wall Street and a business suit, his days of glory shrunk to a little gold cup on his mantel with a date engraved on it like the date on a tombstone.

  Sylvia Plath

  Wall, Tombstone, College

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.41, Hamilton Books

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• I dream of a true husband—a good man, not a brute, nor a champion of men on the battlefield; I dream but of a gentle man, one who neither speaks too loud nor ignores evil.

  A.A. Attanasio

  Dream, Husband, Men

  "The Dragon and the Unicorn: The Perilous Order of Camelot". Volume One,

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• It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion.

  Yann Martel

  Night, Made, Worst

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.135, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died, we buried him at Queenzieburn to make use of the triple word score.

  Jasper Fforde

  Father, Games, Names

  Jasper Fforde (2006). “The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime”, p.86, Penguin

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• In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Father, World, My Family

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A boy told me if he roller-skated fast enough his loneliness couldn't catch up to him, the best reason I ever heard for trying to be a champion. What I wonder tonight pedaling hard down King William Street is if it translates to bicycles. A victory! To leave your loneliness panting behind you on some street corner while you float free into a cloud of sudden azaleas, pink petals that have never felt loneliness, no matter how slowly they fell.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Kings, Loneliness, Boys

  Naomi Shihab Nye (1998). “Fuel: Poems”, p.81, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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• Congratulations to the NBA champion Boston Celtics - they beat the Los Angeles Lakers by 39 points. Or as Hillary Clinton would say, "Too close to call.

  Craig Ferguson

  Congratulations, Boston, Nba

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