Champion Quotes - Page 28

• I never go looking for a sucker. I look for a Champion and make a sucker of of him.

  Amarillo Slim

  Gambling, Looks, Sucker

  Amarillo Slim Preston, Greg Dinkin (2013). “Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People: The Memoirs of the Greatest Gambler Who Ever Lived”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• This is one of the toughest divisions and I’m going to be champion.

  Lyoto Machida

  Division

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• A champion is defined by the adversity he overcomes

  Anderson Silva

  Adversity, Mma, Overcoming

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• When people are tipsy, they're really encouraged and they wanna prove they can do something to the Heavyweight champion.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Motivation, People, Heavyweights

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• As a champion, I can't fight against weak fighters.

  Vitali Klitschko

  Motivation, Fighting, Fighter

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• All boxing experts told Helenius is the next world champion! Chisora beat him.

  Vitali Klitschko

  Motivation, Boxing, Experts

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• You are a real champion. You talk a lot over the past six months and it is going to be great to show you inside the ring how it is better to resolve wars. Let's talk in the office.

  Vitali Klitschko

  Motivation, Real, War

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• Passion and hard work makes a great player, but the courage to get up every time you fall is what makes a champion.

  Jeanette Lee

  Courage, Fall, Hard Work

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• The grey nurse resumed her knitting as Peter Walsh, on the hot seat beside her, began snoring. In her grey dress, moving her hands indefatigably yet quietly, she seemed like the champion of the rights of sleepers, like one of those spectral presences which rise in twilight in woods made of sky and branches. The solitary traveler, haunter of lanes, disturber of ferns, and devastator of hemlock plants, looking up, suddenly sees the giant figure at the end of the ride.

  Virginia Woolf

  Twilight, Moving, Knitting

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.56, Broadview Press

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• I'm not going to say that I'm the best, we respect our champions. Floyd's been doing this a lot longer than me, he's been a lot of mega fights and I won't dare say that I'm better than Floyd Mayweather.

  Andre Ward

  Motivation, Fighting, Floyd Mayweather

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• I think Bute would have to face off with the Super Six Champion to prove that he's the best Super Middleweight. You come out of a tournament like this on top, that demands a lot of respect and carries a lot of weight.

  Andre Ward

  Motivation, Thinking, Weight

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• The thing that I champion is sustainability. My terror is that suddenly we see it as a luxury, not an essential. That's a danger.

  Kevin McCloud

  Luxury, Essentials, Sustainability

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• He's got one of the best chins I've ever hit in my life. I was catching him and he was smiling at me, he was eating them. He's a great fighter, he'll be champion one day.

  David Haye

  Motivation, One Day, Fighter

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• The majority of those who are loosely identified by the term 'liberals' are afraid to let themselves discover that what they advocate is statism. They want to keep all the advantages and effects of capitalism, while destroying the cause, and they want to establish statism without its necessary effects. They do not want to know or to admit that they are the champions of dictatorship and slavery.

  Ayn Rand

  Majority, Slavery, Want

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.264, Penguin

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• I'm a champion, so I turn tragedy to triumph.

  Kanye West

  Tragedy, Triumph, Turns

  Song: Through the Wire

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• One of the trademarks of a champion is that he can outlast you.

  Lou Brock

  Trademarks

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• Champions aren't made in the ring, they are merely recognized there. What you cheat on in the early light of morning will show up in the ring under the bright lights.

  Joe Frazier

  Morning, Light, Cheat

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• We must always meet our obligation to those who fall behind without our assistance. But let's remember, without a race there can be no champion, no records broken, no excellence - in education or any other walk of life.

  Ronald Reagan

  Fall, Race, Broken

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• What is happening is not ideal. Sometimes nothing goes smoothly in the preparation for fights, and that is when you have to show what kind of champion you are and deal with whatever is put in front of you. This is just another obstacle, and if it does go to court then I will be as equally determined to overcome it.

  Ricky Hatton

  Motivation, Fighting, Preparation

  "Court threat to Hatton unification bout". www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2005.

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• I'm a Mancunian born and bred and I feel I'm no different to the man in the crowd and it's nice to reward them. I want to become a great champion.

  Ricky Hatton

  Motivation, Nice, Men

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• What sort of champion would I be if I just stayed in my normal weight division and didn't take the big challenges on? Bring them on, that's what Ricky Hatton's all about.

  Ricky Hatton

  Motivation, Challenges, Division

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• The one-time cotton picker was now the heavyweight champion of the world.

  Joe Louis

  Heavyweights, Progress, World

  Joe Louis, Edna Rust, Art Rust (1978). “Joe Louis: My Life”, Harcourt

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• What makes a champion is not how elegantly you start, but how strongly you finish...!!

  Robin Sharma

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Dec 16, 2014

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• You have a lot to learn before becoming a champion. Once you are champion, you must accept the consequences.

  Sergio Martinez

  Motivation, Becoming, Fighter

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• For me right now I think being the world number one is a bigger deal than being the world champion because I think it shows better who plays the best chess. That sounds self-serving but I think it's also right.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Thinking, Self, Play

  "The Top Chess Player In The World Impressed The Heck Out Of Everyone At This NYC Exhibition". Interview with Gus Lubin, www.businessinsider.com. September 4, 2012.

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