Champion Quotes - Page 38

• Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity. The modern champions of communism have selected this as the time, and ladies and gentlemen, the chips are down - they are truly down.

  Joseph McCarthy

  Gentleman, Atheism, Battle

  Speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, February 9, 1950.

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• When they [court announcers] say, 'This is the world No. 2,' it just doesn't sound right to me because either I'm No. 1 or I'm a grand slam champion. I'm not world No. 2. I just don't like the ring of it when I'm introduced on court because I've been up there for so, so long.

  Roger Federer

  Long, Sound, World

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• I remember mentioning to friends back in 1938 that the world chess champion would be beaten by a computer in 50 years time. Today we know computers are not far from this goal.

  Konrad Zuse

  Years, Goal, Would Be

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• The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Player, Chess, Firsts

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• Being a champion opens lots of doors—I'd like to get a real estate license, maybe sell insurance.

  Mike Tyson

  Real, Doors, Estates

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• One minute I'm robbing a dope house. Next minute I'm the youngest heavyweight champion of the world. I'm only 20, 19, with a lot of money. Who am I? What am I? I don't even know who I am. I'm just a dumb child who's being abused and robbed by lawyers. I'm just a dumb pugnacious fool. I'm just a fool who thinks he's someone. Then you tell me I should be responsible.

  Mike Tyson

  Children, Dope, Thinking

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• I have a saying 'train, don't strain.' The Americans have the saying 'no pain, no gain' and that's why they have no distance running champions. They get down to the track with a stopwatch and flog their guts out thinking that it'll make them a champion, but they'll never make a champion that way.

  Arthur Lydiard

  Running, Pain, Distance

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• There are champions everywhere. Every street's got them. All we need to do is train them properly.

  Arthur Lydiard

  Needs, Streets, Train

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• Champions are everywhere, you just have to train them properly

  Arthur Lydiard

  Train

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• Champions are pioneers, and pioneers get shot at. The companies that get the most from champions, therefore, are those that have rich support network so their pioneers will flourish. This point is so important it's hard to overstress. No support systems, no champions. No champions, no innovations.

  Tom Peters

  Business, Support Systems, Innovation

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• Champions behave like champions before they are champions

  Bill Walsh

  Basketball, Nba, Behave

  Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh (2009). “The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership”, p.48, Penguin

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• A champion views resistance as a gift of energy.

  Michael J. Gelb

  Views, Energy, Resistance

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• I was swimming for the United States of America. I was swimming to beat Stephen Holland.

  Bobby Hackett

  Swimming, America, United States

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• I felt great! I'm ready to roll tonight!

  Casey Converse

  Tonight, Ready, Felt

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• It felt like a dream.

  Brian Goodell

  Dream, Felt

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• When I looked in his eyes, I just kept on walking.

  Bill Smith

  Eye, His Eyes, Walking

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• I hope the day will never come when the American nation will be the champion of the status quo. Once that happens, we shall have forfeited, and rightly forfeited, the support of the unsatisfied, of those who are the victims of inevitable imperfections, of those who, young in years or spirit, believe that they can make a better world and of those who dream dreams and want to make their dreams to come true.

  John Foster Dulles

  Dream, Believe, Years

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• The Breakfast of Champions isn't cereal, it's the competition!

  David Lee Roth

  Cereal, Competition, Breakfast

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• If I could apologise and go back and change history I would do. But the goal is still a goal, Argentina became world champions and I was the best player in the world

  Diego Maradona

  Player, Goal, Argentina

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• These often unsung heroes understand...that poverty, disease and famine are just as deadly and destructive as earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis. Individuals ...are taking on these challenges in their communities, volunteering to make a difference. They remain the true champions of our work towards the Millennium Development Goals.

  Kofi Annan

  Hero, Earthquakes, Differences

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• I have always watched the Race of Champions on TV every year and dreamed about participating one day. It's fantastic to be invited; I'm so happy.

  Sebastian Vettel

  Team, Race, Years

  "SPORTS WIRE - Seb in dream Schuey team". www.mirror.co.uk. October 27, 2007.

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• As a player I won things, had a special 10 years under Martin O'Neill [at Leicester and Celtic] and played in some great teams, beating Manchester United and getting to the last 16 of the Champions League. As a manager, I don't know if I will top this; I hope I do, because I am still young and am still learning. But this is up there with anything I have achieved, not just in my football career but in my life.

  Neil Lennon

  Football, Team, Player

  "Celtic's Neil Lennon: I haven't bettered this Barcelona win in my life" by Ewan Murray, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2012.

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• I think there are very few invisible musical instrument players out there who can claim the chops and sheer perseverance of Björn Türoque, the world's perennial second-place air guitar champion. Whoever this Dan Crane might be, he's captured the mad, seductive spirit of the arbitrary skill contest perfectly, and rocks it hard into the hot Finnish night. There is no number of umlauts that do this Jekyll and Hyde of air-rocking justice.

  John Hodgman

  Perseverance, Player, Night

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• You will never be entirely comfortable. This is the truth behind the champion - he is always fighting something. To do otherwise is to settle.

  Julian Smith

  Struggle, Fighting, Truth Is

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• But who would force the soul tilts with a straw Against a champion cased in adamant

  William Wordsworth

  Soul, Tilt, Force

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.327

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