Champion Quotes - Page 2

• To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.

  Muhammad Ali

  Motivational, Positive, Success

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Oct 31, 2012

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• A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.

  Jack Dempsey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• The Internal Revenue Service is the real undefeated heavyweight champion.

  George Foreman

  Sports, Real, Boxing

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• What could be better than walking down any street in any city and knowing you're the heavyweight champion of the world?

  Rocky Marciano

  Cities, Knowing, Heavyweights

  "Remembering the Brockton Blockbuster" by Thomas Hauser, www.nysun.com. September 14, 2005.

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• A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Motivation, Winning

  "Dressed For Success". Interview with Kevin Newell, coachad.com. October 2, 2009.

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• 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

  Basketball, Motivation, Attitude

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• The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.

  Jean-Claude Killy

  Leadership, Sports, Volleyball

  Jean Claude Killy, Michael Halstead (1978). “Situation Skiing”, Doubleday Books

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• I want to be a champion.

  Kevin Durant

  Basketball, Want

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• 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

  Inspirational, Sports, Workout

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• Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.

  Althea Gibson

  Tennis, Crowns, Wells

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• I would like to cite an instance which proves the efficacy of clean living on the part of an athlete coupled with the inspiration received from a champion which go a long way to making a champion.

  Major Taylor

  Inspiration, Athlete, Long

  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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• 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

  Opportunity, Mind, World

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• Champions keep playing until they get it right.

  Billie Jean King

  Inspirational, Sports, Running

  Twitter post from Jan 26, 2015

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• Take the feeling of hunger out of your gut, and you're no longer a champion

  Burt Lancaster

  Sports, Feelings, Hunger

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• A true champion can adapt to anything.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Martial Arts, True Champion

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Whatever luck I had, I made. I was never a natural athlete, but I paid my dues in sweat and concentration and took the time necessary to learn karate and become world champion.

  Chuck Norris

  Athlete, Sweat, Luck

  Chuck Norris, Joe Hyams (1989). “The secret of inner strength: my story”, Diamond Books

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• A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Valentines Day, Perseverance

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• I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, 'I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.'

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Identity, Excess, Lines

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.94, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• To win takes a complete commitment of mind and body. When you can't make that commitment, they don't call you a champion anymore.

  Rocky Marciano

  Success, Sports, Commitment

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• I think a good MP is someone who cares for their community and becomes their champion, which is why I will make my home in any seat I am lucky enough to be selected for. Looks play no part in the equation, what matters is your ideas and connecting them to the electorate.

  Adam Rickitt

  Home, Thinking, What Matters

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• One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.

  Mortimer Adler

  Christian, President, United States

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• The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.

  Sam Snead

  Sports, Loss, Player

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• Hopefully, we can build a rivalry and we'll be able to do this a lot. Make a legacy, then retire champions.

  Serena Williams

  Legacy, Able, Rivalry

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• We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Fighting, Men, Class

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• The rules are changed now, there's not any way to build a team today. It's just how much money you want to spend. You could be the world champions and somebody else makes a key acquisition or two and you're through.

  Whitey Herzog

  Team, Keys, Two

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