Champion Quotes - Page 33

• I ran my first race the end of March, 1976. And less than four months later I was Olympic champion. But I had the background. It's not like I just ran one day and all of a sudden became a champion. It was a lot of work.

  Edwin Moses

  Race, One Day, Four

  "Olympian Edwin Moses Helps Kids Clear Their Own Hurdles". "Here And Now" with Meghna Chakrabarti, www.npr.org. August 20, 2013.

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• I've always dreamed to win the Champions League with Real Madrid and we are only one step away to win it

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Real, Winning, Champions League

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• DDP, when I look at you, I see white trash! When I look at the people in the crowd, I see white trash. So maybe you are the people's champion!

  Scott Steiner

  White, People, Looks

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• Nothing was or is farther from my intentions, than to enlist myself as the champion of a fixed opinion, where I have only expressed doubt.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Doubt, Opinion, Intention

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.476

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• While journalists cannot right every wrong, champion every cause or fix every problem, they can - through the written word - lift someone's burden for a day, make some elderly woman on a bus smile or let them know they are noticed by someone.

  Regina Brett

  Elderly, Causes, Problem

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• There are simply no public figures today who so challenge the elite business and government establishment and so champion the working class as Jimmy Hoffa did almost daily and with arrogance.

  Jimmy Hoffa

  Class, Government, Challenges

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• No one alive today has a single ancestor in his or her past who died in infancy. We are the champions, my friend!

  Daniel Levitin

  Past, Winning, Alive

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• All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys, The champions and enthusiasts of the state: Turbid ardors and vain joys Not barrenly abate-- Stimulants to the power mature, Preparatives of fate.

  Herman Melville

  War, Fate, Boys

  Herman Melville, Douglas Robillard (2000). “The Poems of Herman Melville”, p.58, Kent State University Press

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• How could the USA champion individual freedom in the world generally while denying it to an important minority in its own country.

  Dean Acheson

  Country, Usa, Important

  "Civil Rights in the USA, 1863-1980". Book by David Paterson, Susan Willoughby, Doug Willoughby, 2001.

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• The champions of militant Islam are, of course, misogynists, woman-haters; they are also misologists - haters of reason. Their armed doctrine is little more than a chaotic penal code underscored by impotent dreams of genocide. And, like all religions, it is a massive agglutination of stock response, of cliches, of inherited and unexamined formulations.

  Martin Amis

  Dream, Islam, Doctrine

  "The voice of the lonely crowd" by Martin Amis, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2002.

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• I am the entertainer and I know just where I stand Another serenader and another long haired band Today I am your champion, I may have won your hearts, But I know the game, you'll forget my name, And I won't be here in another year If I don't stay on the charts.

  Billy Joel

  Heart, Years, Games

  Song: The Entertainer, Album: Streetlife Serenade, 1974

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• For inspiration I look to those great players who consistently found original ways to shock their opponents. None did this better than the eighth world champion, Mikhail Tal. The "Magician of Riga" rose to become champion in 1960 at age twenty-three and became famous for his aggressive, volatile play.

  Garry Kasparov

  Inspiration, Player, Rose

  "How Life Imitates Chess". Book by Garry Kasparov, 2007.

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• Every day Americans and their families need a champion, a champion who will fight for them every single day. And I want to be that champion. I want to get up every single day going to work for you, standing up for you.

  Hillary Clinton

  Fighting, Needs, Want

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• In every community there are little knots of fantastic extremists who loudly proclaim that they are striving for righteousness, and who, in reality, do their feeble best for unrighteousness. Just as the upright politician should hold in peculiar scorn the man who makes the name of politician a reproach and a shame, so the genuine reformer should realize that the cause he champions is especially jeopardized by the mock reformer who does what he can to make reform a laughingstock among decent men.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Reality, Men, Names

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.22, Courier Corporation

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• If you want to become a World Champion you should avoid playing in Open tournaments.

  Anatoly Karpov

  World, Want, Should

  Chess Life Interview, 2003.

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• My agent called me and said, they watched you do Chopped Champions and they thought you'd be good for this competition. What do you think? And I said, well, what do you think? He said he thought it would be great and I said let's do it. When you decide to do this, you don't really think that you're going to win it. I thought it would be fun, good to test my mettle; games are fun like that. Why not? I'll try it.

  Geoffrey Zakarian

  Fun, Winning, Thinking

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• Drawing a comparison to football, it could be said that the Spanish economy has, during this legislature, into the Champions League of the world economy, however bad that may seem to some.

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  Football, Champions League, Drawing

  Speech in the Congress of Deputies, September 11, 2007.

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• Destiny's Champion, Fate's fool. Eternity's Soldier, Time's Tool.

  Michael Moorcock

  Fate, Destiny, Soldier

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• No left wing parties have any respect for liberal economic values; and most centre and right wing parties merely promote a paternalistic stateism. Does it thus fall to the self-reliant students of the ruggedly individualist philosophy of magick to champion a certain measured libertarianism?

  Peter J. Carroll

  Philosophy, Party, Fall

  "Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick". Book by Peter J. Carroll, 1995.

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• I may have become a world champion quicker than most, but people should look at me and realise there are all kinds of ways to get where you want to go. Because we didn't plan it. We just did it.

  Mikaela Shiffrin

  People, Looks, World

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• People tend to grow fearful, when they taste failure, face a daunting challenge or fall ill. Yet, that is precisely the time to become even bolder. Those who are victors at heart are the greatest of all champions!!!!

  Carmelo Anthony

  Failure, Fall, Heart

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• WE WENT OUT THERE ON A MISSION, CAME BACK CHAMPIONS. WE PROVED WE WERE THE BEST TEAM IN THE WORLD.

  Brad Marchand

  Team, World, Missions

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• The lesson to learn is to pay attention for 90 minutes because in front of you are great champions.

  Claudio Ranieri

  Attention, Lessons, Pay

  "Chelsea are banking on Italian job". cnn.com. October 21, 2003.

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• When you play in the Premier League, say you're playing against a lower-end team, they set up to defend all the time, they set up to block you off. But when you play in the Champions League, all the other teams are used to winning every week, so it's more of an open game, it's more attacking, end-to-end.

  Gareth Bale

  Block, Team, Winning

  "Real Madrid target Gareth Bale insists Spanish football is tops - and admits he'd like to play in La Liga" by Ben Curtis, www.mirror.co.uk. July 2, 2013.

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• I'm ambitious, I want to play in the Champions League, and that's the aim with Tottenham - to start qualifying for the Champions League on a consistent basis.

  Gareth Bale

  Champions League, Play, Ambitious

  "Tottenham's future looks bright ... just give us time, says Gareth Bale" by Daniel Taylor, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2012.

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