Champion Quotes - Page 29

• All I expect are wins and to get pleasure from the game. And if someone thinks something about me, if someone's dissatisfied with something... that's not my headache. I hope someday I'll become World Champion - and I'll make all these people happy. But even if for some reason that doesn't happen it won't stop me getting pleasure from chess. I'm sure of that.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Winning, Thinking, Games

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• The chess world is obligated to organize a match between the champion of the world and the winner of this Carlsbad tournament - indeed, this is a moral obligation. If the world of chess should remain deaf to its obligation, on the other hand, it would amount to an absolutely unforgivable omission, carrying with it a heavy burden of guilt.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Omission, Hands, Guilt

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• The system set up by F.I.D.E. ... Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion... The Russians arranged it that way.

  Bobby Fischer

  World, Chess, Way

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• ... in itself the title of world champion does not give any significicant advantages, if it is not acknowledged by the entire chess world, and a champion who does not have the chess world behind him is, in my view, a laughing-stock.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Views, Giving, Laughing

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• The cherished dream of every chessplayer is to play a match with the World Champion. But here is the paradox: the closer you come to the realization of this goal, the less you think about it.

  Mikhail Tal

  Dream, Thinking, Play

  Mikhail Tal (2011). “Tal-Botvinnik 1960: Match For the World Chess Championship”, p.9, SCB Distributors

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• When I started out playing chess as a kid I thought I should be world champion. As a kid you have no idea what that means and you only sort of picture it. It is hard to imagine that I waited all those years and it happened in a late stage of my career.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Mean, Kids, Years

  "Devil's Advocate: Viswanathan Anand on mind games". CNN-IBN interview, en.chessbase.com. May 13, 2008.

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• Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.

  Manu Bennett

  Mindset, Mark, Train

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• I do not need to play in the Champions League to be happy

  Mats Hummels

  Champions League, Play, Needs

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• The rose blinds the sharpshooting champions.

  Roque Dalton

  Rose

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• Mental strength is what separates champions from near champions.

  Rafael

  Mental Strength

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• This is all for Naieya (daughter), man. I will be a champion one day, I promised that to her.....And now that I have this opportunity I can't let her down.

  Deontay Wilder

  Daughter, Opportunity, Men

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• So, I didn't say we are going to win a lot, but we are going to play like winners, and we've got a plan in place to teach our guys how to play like winners and play like a champion.

  Steve Spurrier

  Sports, Winning, Play

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• ..Dr. Andrew C. Ivy, (is) the champion of the scientific doctrine of freedom of research, which has suffered in recent years through the falsity of certain politico-physician leaders of the AMA, who faked reports, suppressed honest information, brutally slugged the opposition, both physically and through pressures, used to prevent the truth about Krebiozen reaching the American people.

  Roland V. Libonati

  Dark, Years, Ivy

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• In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I do and other players do about opening theory. So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn't do well. They'd get bad openings.

  Bobby Fischer

  Player, Chess, Lasts

  Radio Interview, www.geocities.jp. October 16, 2006.

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• We go through life so fast and we never really get to enjoy moments. It seems like they go past us...Tonight I just wanted to take a minute, a moment and soak it in and be a kid from Robbins Illinois and be a kid from Marquette University.

  Dwyane Wade

  Kids, Past, Illinois

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• I've always thought that pressure is trying to feed your family, trying to make a mortgage. We play a game...And this is an amazing game.

  Shane Battier

  Games, Play, Nba Championships

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• Yeah, that was my best scoreless game ever.

  Chris Bosh

  Nba Championships, Games, Yeah

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• Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but world's champions.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Encouragement, Giving Up, Communication

  Kurt Vonnegut (2010). “Bluebeard”, p.34, Random House

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• Championships are mythical. The real champions are those who live through what they are taught in their homes and churches. The attitude that 'We've got to win' in sports must be changed. Teach your youngsters, who are the future hope of America, the importance of love, respect, dedication, determination, self-sacrifice, self-discipline and good attitude. That's the road up the ladder to the championships.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Determination, Attitude

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• Anybody can quit. Only a real champion and a person of character and strength can keep going and refuse to give up.

  Sadie Robertson

  Giving Up, Real, Character

  FaceBook post by Sadie Robertson from Mar 20, 2016

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• They only delivered the newspaper once a week where I lived in Oklahoma, and those people lived and died with the box score of my games. My biggest moment was winning the World Series because everyone in my town was able to feel he was a world champion.

  Johnny Bench

  Winning, Oklahoma, Games

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• Every week you have to play well to be the champion.

  Ruud Gullit

  Play, Week, Wells

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• The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Garden, Blessing

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Bureaucracy: The Economist”, p.115, VM eBooks

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• My aim is to motivate a human being, to find the champion within

  Johnny G

  Aim, Humans, Human Beings

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• Not every legend is a myth, some are flesh and blood. Some legends walk among us, but they aren’t born, they’re built. Legends are made from iron & sweat, mind and muscle, blood and vision and victory. Legends are champions, they grow, they win, they conquer. There’s a legend behind every legacy, there’s a blueprint behind every legend.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Winning, Blood, Sweat

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