Champion Quotes - Page 19

• I wasn't born a world champion. I just worked really hard to become one.

  Layne Beachley

  Sports, World, Born

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• Why do we place such a disproportionate emphasis on sporting achievement? Why doesn't success in other fields receive similar attention... Maybe it's because in a country that prides itself on being egalitarian, sport is intellectually and socio-economically an equal playing field. In fact, the more humble your background, the better, the underdog-turned champion is a narrative that resonates powerfully. We're far less interested in the stories of our best doctors, writers, lawyers, engineers, teachers or social workers. Their triumphs do not capture our collective imaginations.

  Mia Freedman

  Sports, Country, Teacher

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• I wouldn't have been what you'd call a champion if I had accepted failure when it first came, if I had looked at it and said, 'Well, that's it.'

  Shirley Strickland

  Sports, Firsts, Accepted

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• Hard days are the best because that's when champions are made.

  Gabby Douglas

  Sports, Made, Hard Days

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

  Martin Lel

  Running, Cousin, Los Angeles

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• These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Hero, Sacrifice

  Remarks on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day, delivered 6 June 1984 in Pointe Du Hoc, Normandy, France

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• Sultan Khan had become champion of India at Indian chess and he learned the rules of our form of chess at a later date. The fact that even under such conditions he succeeded in becoming champion reveals a genius for chess which is nothing short of extraordinary.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  India, Genius, Chess

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• The great World Champions Morphy, Steinitz, and Lasker were past masters in the art of Pawn play; they had no superiors in their handling of endgames. The present World Champion has not the strength of the other three as an endgame player, and is therefore inferior to them.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Art, Past, Player

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• Playing chess is more athletic than artistic. Champions are more concerned with victory than beauty: it's war with occasionally graceful kicks.

  Jennifer Shahade

  War, Athletic, Victory

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• By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion

  Garry Kasparov

  World, Chess, Gaps

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• There are many stars and a few super-stars in sport. There are champions who bag a coronet now and then, and there are others who dominate some game year after year. In other words there are Bobby Jones and Helen Wills.

  Grantland Rice

  Motivational, Sports, Stars

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• History provides many examples of democracy crushed by people who said to be the champion of "genuine democracy" and "the people's real meaning". The realization about this may lead us to a defence position that conceals that democracy is an extraordinarily demanding way of rule. It must constantly find new ways to revitalize, to reach out to people and make them active. Dictatorships offers a machinery of obedience, closed and externally well-oiled. Democracy is based on fairness, openness and pulsating life. Therefore it must constantly be won again.

  Olof Palme

  Real, People, Democracy

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• It is particularly odd that economists who profess to be champions of a free-market economy, should go to such twists and turns to avoid facing the plain fact: that gold, that scarce and valuable market-produced metal, has always been, and will continue to be, by far the best money for human society.

  Murray Rothbard

  Gold, Facts, Twists

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• Where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand; For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mast'ry.

  John Milton

  Nature, War, Night

  John Milton, James BUCHANAN (Grammarian.) (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... With Notes ... To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ... By J. Buchanan”, p.159

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• It's not my goal, definitely. I mean, I don't think it's something I can really achieve. Definitely she's a great champion - she has nine titles. But it's nice to see her in the locker room, and she's smiling and she's happy for me. She's really cheering for me. It's nice to have someone like her.

  Petra Kvitova

  Cheer, Nice, Mean

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• We went out there as a team and believed we could win. I am an Olympic champion.

  Mark Lewis-Francis

  Team, Winning

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• A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. When innovations are in the exploration stage, they need a champion to take them through the rest of the developmental stages. Otherwise the bureaucracy, politics, and people who can only see the fledgling and potential innovation through today's glasses will smother it or let it quietly die from malnourishment.

  Charles Bowers

  Change, Glasses, Ideas

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• If you want to take your mission in life to the next level, if you're stuck and you don't know how to rise, don't look outside yourself. Look inside. Don't let your fears keep you mired in the crowd. Abolish your fears and raise your commitment level to the point of no return, and I guarantee you that the Champion Within will burst forth to propel you toward victory.

  Bruce Jenner

  Commitment, Victory, Next Level

  Bruce Jenner, Mark Seal (1999). “Finding the Champion Within: A Step-by-Step Plan for Reaching Your Full Potential”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• Your best champion and cheerleader is yourself. Always be proud of your accomplishments, big or small.

  Ayanna Howard

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Appreciation

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• I am commonly opposed to those who modestly assume the rank of champions of liberty, and make a very patriotic noise about the people. It is the stale artifice which has duped the world a thousand times, and yet, though detected, it is still successful. I love liberty as well as anybody. I am proud of it, as the true title of our people to distinction above others; but . . . I would guard it by making the laws strong enough to protect it.

  Fisher Ames

  Strong, Patriotic, Successful

  Fisher Ames, John Thornton Kirkland (1969). “Works of Fisher Ames: Memoir, by J. T. Kirkland. Letters”

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• There is nothing we cannot live down, and rise above, and overcome.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Motivational, Overcoming, Winner

  "The Heart of the New Thought".

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• Confident fighters are dangerous fighters. I know that. But there other fighters who said before a fight they were stronger than me, hit harder, were going to knock me out. Walters is a good champion but really how many quality fights has he been in compared to where I have been in my career? We both have speed, we both have power. It's an explosive fight. This is going to end in a knockout. I will go into the ring and do my best.

  Nonito Donaire

  Fighting, Careers, Work Out

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• Donaire is a very good champion. We both have speed and power. The difference is intelligence. I was born to fight. The bigger the fight the better. If Donaire isn't right, he's going to get knocked out. Maybe five rounds, maybe less. Not sure yet. But you know what? Donaire stepped up and took this fight. He didn't have to. For that, I respect him for getting in the ring with me.

  Nicholas Walters

  Fighting, Differences, Work Out

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• I'm the best fighter in the world. No one can beat me....My objective is to inflict as much pain as possible, to win and win spectacularly...Ever since I was 12 years old, I was groomed to be the heavyweight champion of the world. I've been prepared to handle the pressure, the dealing with the press, everything.

  Mike Tyson

  Pain, Winning, Years

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• Joe Louis is the greatest heavyweight champion of all time. Rocky Marciano is second only to Louis. Where do I rate Ali? Somewhere below me. I beat him, and if I could beat him, no doubt Joe Louis and Rocky Marciano could have beaten him.

  Joe Frazier

  Heavyweights, Doubt, Beats

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