Champion Quotes - Page 26

• FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.

  Bobby Fischer

  Titles, World, Chess

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• Real champions fight through adversity.

  Conor McGregor

  Real, Adversity, Fighting

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• Fourteen weeks before the Mendes fight I tore 80 per cent of my ACL [anterior cruciate ligament]. That is the main ligament for stability. Every day in that training camp when I was working my way back, I was saying "real champions fight through any adversity". That is why I am a real champion and he is not. Look at my eye [he had seven stitches put in an old wound after an injury in training the night before we met]. Fighters fight on. Aldo got scared, he went running and I worry he will run again.

  Conor McGregor

  Running, Real, Eye

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• I studied every move, I became fascinated by thinking what I could have done differently. And I take that approach now as a professional. I am on it, all the time, never stop thinking, learning. You don't get to be world champion unless you do that.

  Conor McGregor

  Moving, Thinking, Done

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• I do yoga. People think it is easy, just touching your toes. It is hard. But I tend to go with my own flow. It's back to the movement thing. I feel it when I need to train, and I do what I feel I need to do. And when I am in the run-up to a fight, I am really at it the whole time, might be getting my weight down to meet the limit for the division. Soon I am moving up and I am going to be champion in the next one too.

  Conor McGregor

  Running, Moving, Yoga

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• Champions keep going when they don't have anything left in their tank!

  Eric Thomas

  Tanks, Left, Keep Going

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• No great player blundered oftener than I done. I was champion of the world for twenty-eight years because I was twenty years ahead of my time. I played on certain principles, which neither Zukertort nor anyone else of his time understood. The players of today, such as Lasker, Tarrasch, Pillsbury, Schlechter and others have adopted my principles, and as is only natural, they have improved upon what I began, and that is the whole secret of the matter.

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Player, Years, Eight

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• His teaching became a turning point in chess history: it was from Steinitz that the era of modern chess began. The contribution of the first world champion to its development is comparable with the great scientific discoveries of the 19th century.

  Garry Kasparov

  Teaching, Discovery, Development

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• I have always maintained that Iggy Pop is the Heavyweight Champion of Rock & Roll.

  Henry Rollins

  Rocks, Heavyweights, Pops

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• I just wanted to jump into the stands and start celebrating with those wonderful fans. 
  (on reaching the Champions League final)

  Steven Gerrard

  Champions League, Fans, Finals

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• Earlier on in the season I'd have been very surprised to think we could win this competition because there were some fantastic teams in it. 
  (on the Champions League)

  Steven Gerrard

  Team, Winning, Thinking

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• It will be a dream come true if I can go there and lift it. 
  (on the Champions League trophy)

  Steven Gerrard

  Dream, Champions League, Trophies

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• We need to go there and make sure we bring that cup home. and if we do succeed, then we'll dedicate it to the fans that have waited so patiently since 1984. 
  (on the Champions League)

  Steven Gerrard

  Home, Champions League, Fans

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• We're going to be the underdogs again in Istanbul on the 25th, but that suits us. 
  (on the Champions league Final)

  Steven Gerrard

  Istanbul, Champions League, Underdog

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• Mark [Duplass] is the same person that I met on day one. He's a very smart, savvy, creative guy. If you ever want a champion on your side, it's Mark.

  Jackie Schaffer

  Smart, Your Side, Creative

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The Catholic Church [with Pope John Paul II] has lost its shepherd. The world has lost a champion of human freedom.

  Chris Matthews

  Catholic, Church, Shepherds

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• It's tough to know who's better in cliff diving. Like, you see a guy diving off a cliff and you go, Oh, man, a guy diving off a cliff! And then another guy'd dive- Oh, there's another guy diving off a cliff there. But you can't tell who's better, y'know? Like, uh- if you survive at all, hey, you're a great- you're a great cliff diver there. There's only two classifications in cliffdiving. There's, uh- 'Grand Champion' and then, uh- 'Stuff On a Rock.' Very hard to make a comeback in that sport, I'll tell you that.

  Norm MacDonald

  Sports, Men, Rocks

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• Photography can still be used to champion activism and change. I believe this, even while standing in the cool winds of postmodernism... Postmodernism looked radical, but it wasn't. As a movement it was profoundly liberal and became a victim of itself. Precisely at this historical moment, when multicultural democracy is the order of the day, photography can be used as a powerful weapon toward instituting political and cultural change. I for one will continue to work toward this end.

  Carrie Mae Weems

  Photography, Powerful, Believe

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• Judah Friedlander, I'm ok with you being the world champion for a few years more. That's a hook with legs. But I think he should make one more hat, that says 'there's a limit to how funny words on a hat can be'. And then move to a chapeau.

  Andy Kindler

  Moving, Thinking, Years

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• Being intercontinental champion doesn't mean you're a champ. It means you're the future.

  Cody Rhodes

  Mean

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• I'm happy with my career but I could have been happier if I could have been treated like a champion should have been treated because management and fighters take advantage of fighters.

  Larry Holmes

  Should Have, Careers, Management

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• The main thing to know about me is that I'm a champion of entrepreneurs and the startups they build. They are my rock stars. If in doubt, I side with them, and that's clear from my writing.

  Michael Arrington

  Stars, Writing, Rocks

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• I would be disappointed if I were remembered as a runner because I feelthat my contribution to the youth of America has far exceeded the woman who was the Olympic champion.

  Wilma Rudolph

  America, Would Be, Youth

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• I am the heavyweight champion of the world, and the greatest heavyweight you have seen for a long while. With Tyson on the card, it is definitely an added bonus because Lewis-Tyson on the same card would be a great doubleheader. This is what the fans want to see.

  Lennox Lewis

  Long, Heavyweights, World

  Lennox Lewis during National Conference Call, www.boxinginsider.com. April 24, 2003.

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• The best fight I ever saw without question, I was very fortunate to be a judge in the fight, between the then current WBC 122 pound champion Wilfredo Gomez, and the reigning WBC 118 pound champion Lupe Pintor. It was absolutely beyond belief.

  Harold Lederman

  Fighting, Judging, Saws

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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