Champion Quotes - Page 24

• Did all the lets and bars appear
  To every just or larger end,
  Whence should come the trust and cheer?
  Youth must its ignorant impulse lend--
  Age finds place in the rear.
  All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys,
  The champions and enthusiasts of the state

  Herman Melville

  Cheer, War, Boys

  Herman Melville (1866). “Battle-pieces and aspects of the war [poems].”, p.22

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• Dandyism is the last flicker of heroism in decadent ages.... Dandyism is a setting sun; like the declining star, it is magnificent, without heat and full of melancholy. But alas! the rising tide of democracy, which spreads everywhere and reduces everything to the same level, is daily carrying away these last champions of human pride, and submerging, in the waters of oblivion, the last traces of these remarkable myrmidons.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Stars, Pride, Water

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• When I was in grade school and we had to write papers about what we wanted to be when we grew up, I wanted to be a social worker or a missionary or a teacher... Then I got involved with tennis, and everything was just me, me, me. I was totally selfish and thought about myself and nobody else, because if you let up for one minute, someone was going to come along and beat you. I really wouldn't let anyone or any slice of happiness enter... I didn't like the characteristics that it took to become a champion.

  Chris Evert

  Happiness, Teacher, Selfish

  "'I've Lived A Charmed Life'". Interview with Sally Jenkins, www.si.com. May 25, 1992.

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• Those who need a champion cannot afford compromise, in the face of forces that are powerful, persistent and pernicious and greedy.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Powerful, Faces, Needs

  "Elizabeth Edwards: 'With Less Armor Than I Have, They Fight Too'". Elizabeth Edwards' speech at Consumer Watchdog’s 2007 Rage for Justice dinner, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 7, 2010.

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• Johnny Cash was the champion of the voiceless, the underdogs and the
  downtrodden. He was also something of a holy terror, like Abraham Lincoln
  with a wild side. He represented the best of America.

  Kris Kristofferson

  Art, Wild Side, America

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• I think I've already got the main thing I've always wanted, which is to be somebody, to have an identify. I'm Althea Gibson, the tennis champion. I hope it makes me happy.

  Althea Gibson

  Thinking, Tennis, Make Me Happy

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• I could barely speak after I was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers. I was going to play for the defending Super Bowl champions.... I immediately thought of all the great players on the team. I was in awe, as I had watched these soon-to-be legends play on television. They epitomized for me what football was all about: the love of the game, the professional approach, and the desire to win.

  Jerry Rice

  Football, Team, Winning

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• On Rafael Nadal: Every point he plays is like match point. That's why he's the champion right now.

  Bjorn Borg

  Sports, Play, Nadal

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• I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint.

  Peter Shaffer

  Saint, Mediocrity, World

  "Fictional character: Antonio Salieri". "Amadeus", www.imdb.com. 1984.

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• The practice sessions of aspiring champions have a specific and never-changing purpose: Progress.  Every second of every minute of every hour, the goal is to extend one's mind and body, to push oneself beyond the outer limits of one's capacities, to engage so deeply in the task that one leaves the training session, literally, a changed person.

  Matthew Syed

  Motivational, Sports, Practice

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• We're going to be World Champions...forever.

  Alex Morgan

  Forever, World, World Champions

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• Hypocrisy is bad, but it's not the worst vice in the world. If I declared “murder is wrong” and then killed somebody, I would hope that the top count against me would be homicide, not hypocrisy. Liberal elites ' particularly in Hollywood ' believe that hypocrisy is the gravest sin in the world, which is why they advocate their own lifestyles for the entire world: Sleep with whomever you want, listen to your own instincts, be true to yourself, blah, blah, blah. Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Believe, Sleep, Hypocrisy

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• In war, in some sense, lies the very genius of law. It is law creative and active; it is the first principle of the law. What is human warfare but just this, - an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party. Men make an arbitrary code, and, because it is not right, they try to make it prevail by might. The moral law does not want any champion. Its asserters do not go to war. It was never infringed with impunity. It is inconsistent to decry war and maintain law, for if there were no need of war there would be no need of law.

  Henry David Thoreau

  War, Lying, Party

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2123, Delphi Classics

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• Champions do ordinary things better than everyone else.

  Chuck Noll

  Ordinary Things, Ordinary

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• There never was a champion who to himself was a good loser. There's a vast difference between a good sport and a good loser.

  Earl Blaik

  Sports, Differences, Loser

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• The difference between ordinary players and champions is the way they think.

  Patty Berg

  Player, Thinking, Differences

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• Now that I'm losing some, I can see how tough I was -- the killer instinct, the single-mindedness, playing like a machine. Boy, that's what made me a champion.

  Chris Evert

  Boys, Machines, Killers

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• To later Romans Ennius was the personification of the spirit of early Rome; by them he was called "The Father of Roman Poetry." We must remember how truly Greek he was in his point of view. He set the example for later Latin poetry by writing the first epic of Rome in Greek hexameter verses instead of in the old Saturnian verse. He made popular the doctrines of Euhemerus, and he was in general a champion of free thought and rationalism.

  Quintus Ennius

  Father, Latin, Writing

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• Girls rival each other. Women revive each other.
  Girls empale each other. Women empower each other.
  Girls compare each other. Women champion each other.

  Ann Voskamp

  Girl, Empowering, Rivals

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• You can't be a champion until you can beat a bear.

  Daniel Bryan

  Bears, Beats, Cant

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

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• In the world there are believers and then there are non-believers. For all of you non-believers out there, I have something to say to you...never underestimate the heart of a champion.

  Rudy Tomjanovich

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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• I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Excess, Moderation, Foe

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

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• It is absolutely vital that we do all we can to allow Americans to practice their religious ways, while simultaneously ensuring that no one's beliefs infringe upon those of others. We should also serve as champions of freedom of religion throughout the world.

  Benjamin Carson

  Religious, Freedom, Practice

  "EXCLUSIVE: Dr. Ben Carson: ‘Absolutely Vital’ Americans Stand Up For Indiana’s Religious Freedom Law" by Alex Swoyer, www.breitbart.com. March 30, 2015.

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• A successful life is expensive; it will cost you something to become a champion.

  Mike Murdock

  Successful, Cost, Life Is

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• People say that it was degrading for an Olympic champion to run against a horse, but what was I supposed to do? I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals. There was no television, no big advertising, no endorsements then. Not for a black man, anyway.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Running, Horse

  "Owens pierced a myth" by Larry Schwartz, www.espn.com.

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