World Champions Quotes

• Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing

  Muhammad Ali

  Athlete, Law Of Attraction, Impossible Things

  Muhammad Ali (2016). “Muhammad Ali Unfiltered: Rare, Iconic, and Officially Authorized Photos of the Greatest”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.

  Muhammad Ali

  Nice, Home, Humble

  Twitter post from Jun 10, 2012

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• It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspiring, Law Of Attraction, Impossible Things

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Jan 28, 2015

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• Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player

  Max Euwe

  Player, Games, Chess Game

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• In Chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Playing Chess, Chance, Masters

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• A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Chess Pieces, Numbers, Boards

  José Raúl Capablanca (1921). “Chess Fundamentals”, Harcourt

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  Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Change, Power

  Muhammad Ali (2016). “Muhammad Ali Unfiltered: Rare, Iconic, and Officially Authorized Photos of the Greatest”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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• I started in this sport at 12 years of age and the goals I set was to be among the best and be the world champion.

  Anderson Silva

  Sports, Years, Goal

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• I'm world champion, baby!

  Jenson Button

  Baby, Champion, World

  "Champion Button looks to the future with Brawn", www.cnn.com. October 19, 2009.

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• I wasn't born a world champion. I just worked really hard to become one.

  Layne Beachley

  Sports, Champion, World

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• When I was 15 years old I felt totally confident I would become a world champion and the greatest bodybuilder in the world. The same was true of show business - I knew that one day I would make more money than anyone else in the industry and I did. For that you need the willingness to work and do everything it takes to make the vision turn into reality.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Reality, Years, Champion

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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

  Vitali Klitschko

  Motivation, Boxing, Champion

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• The rules are changed now, there's not any way to build a team today. It's just how much money you want to spend. You could be the world champions and somebody else makes a key acquisition or two and you're through.

  Whitey Herzog

  Team, Keys, Two

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• The loss of my childhood was the price for becoming the youngest world champion in history. When you have to fight every day from a young age, your soul can be contaminated. I lost my childhood. I never really had it. Today I have to be careful not to become cruel, because I became a soldier too early.

  Garry Kasparov

  Loss, Fighting, Childhood

  "The Tsar's Opponent" by David Remnick, www.newyorker.com. October 1, 2007.

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• I feel blessed that I managed to fight 46 fights undefeated, that I was a world champion for 11 years, one of the longest reigning champions of all time and I like to think that I come out looking pretty good.

  Joe Calzaghe

  Motivation, Blessed, Fighting

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• There's a big difference between me and a real, legitimate working hand, or a world-champion rodeo cowboy. I play 'em, and I aspire to be like that, but those guys are tough.

  Luke Perry

  Real, Cowboy, Hands

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am very happy to announce my renewal with HRC. I had always dreamed about being part of the Repsol Honda Team, and thanks to Honda, the dream came true a year and a half ago. Everything happened very quickly last season, and I would have never imagined that I could achieve what we did. Becoming World Champion during my first s eason was another dream turned into reality. It is a great honor to be a part of the Honda family, and I'm glad to remain with this special group of people for another two seasons.

  Marc Marquez

  Dream, Team, Reality

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• I love short track. I competed in short track, I was a world champion in 1986 but at that point in time it wasn't in the Olympic Games so I moved into long track. Short track is a blast to skate and it's a blast to watch.

  Bonnie Blair

  Short Love, Games, Long

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• We're going to be World Champions...forever.

  Alex Morgan

  Forever, Champion, World

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• And here comes Mika Hakkinen, double world champion twice over.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Champion

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• Do you have any ambitions outside racing? My main ambition at the moment, whether inside or outside racing, is to become Formula 1 World Champion.

  Kimi Raikkonen

  Ambition, Champion, Racing

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• I think that the World Champion should try to defend the quality of play more than anyone else.

  Boris Spassky

  Thinking, Play, Champion

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• To be world champion brings fame. The fame brings good things and bad things too. I try to take the good with calmness.

  Sergio Martinez

  Motivation, Champion, Trying

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• One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people - men of the stature of Garry Kasparov, the former world champion, who was my part-time coach.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Intelligent, Men, People

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• Being a world champion is something I'm already proud of and can take for the rest of my life.

  Nonito Donaire

  Champion, World, Proud

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