World Champions Quotes - Page 2

• I think I could have become an outstanding professional baseball player, but I don't think I could have reached the heights that I have in football - being one of the very top players in the game, being a world champion.

  Joe Namath

  Baseball, Football, Player

  "Playboy's Candid Conversation With The Superswinger QB, Joe Namath". thestacks.deadspin.com. September 5, 2013.

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

  Anatoly Karpov

  Champion, World, Want

  Chess Life Interview, 2003.

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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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• If I'm to accomplish my goal of being the world champion I've got to be better; so every day I come in here with a goal, and that's to get better.

  Daniel Cormier

  Mma, Goal, Champion

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• Jenny Simpson loses her shoe in the women's fifteen hundred, with a lap and a half to go, destroying her chances to repeat as world champion, and she gives the most gracious interview afterward about how she's had a wonderful career already. Great for Jenny Simpson. Bad for the sport! We need drama!

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Sports, Drama, Careers

  "Usain Bolt, a Collapse, and an Epic Beer Mile". Interview with Nicholas Thompson, www.newyorker.com. August 27, 2015.

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• All I care about is that people are being entertained. It's not about being the world champion [in wrestling], it's about exciting the people. If you walk away entertained, then I did my job, and that's all I care about.

  Randy Savage

  Jobs, Wrestling, People

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. May 28, 2004.

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• I could really care less about the TV and the fame, it's all about that lifetime achievement of becoming a world champion.

  Jake Ellenberger

  Mma, Achievement, Champion

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• What it is saying is that someone who was a world champion and who takes care of himself with a 17-year rest and applies the proper training techniques and perseverance could be successful.

  Mark Spitz

  Sports, Perseverance, Successful

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• I'm proud of my triumphs. I've dreamed of being world champion, I've had some difficult times and they've made me value the good times.

  Sete Gibernau

  Champion, Proud, Triumph

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• For me it was a normality having a father who was a world champion. I grew up with that, so it was never extra pressure. And I've never felt the need to emerge from his shadow.

  Nico

  Father, Champion, Shadow

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• To my mind ClickThings, and John Underwood are world champion caliber, and I am delighted to have the opportunity to partner with them.

  Boomer Esiason

  Opportunity, Champion, Mind

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• When I was racing, we were more used to seeing some horrific accidents. For example, Michael Schumacher is a great world champion, but I haven't seen a weekend where he doesn't go off the circuit. At every race he always has a spin or runs through the gravel trap. He usually doesn't hit anything, but nevertheless it is an error that could not have been made in the days I raced.

  Jackie Stewart

  Running, Weekend, Errors

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• Carlsen came with a line that was not very theoretical, trying to challenge the World Champion to play chess. [...] But Anand proved that even this obscure line is something he has studied before, and it was Carlsen that was set back.

  Alejandro Ramirez

  Play, Challenges, Champion

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• I'm not thinking about coaching, I'm thinking about heading to Washington, watching the world champions and my brother coach

  Jon Gruden

  Brother, Thinking, Champion

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• The Olympics is a special event and winning is very important. For me as a world record holder and world champion, the only thing I am missing is the Olympic gold medal and that is what I want to achieve in my career.

  David Rudisha

  Winning, Careers, Missing

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• When you have a World Champion in your smartphone, the myth of the superior brainpower of human chess champions has lost its power.

  Hans Ree

  Smartphones, Champion, Chess

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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, Champion

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• At the Olympics, there was a little bit of unfair judging, but I tried not to be disappointed and to do my best. I think the audience respected and loved what I did at the Olympics, and that helped me become the world champion in 1997.

  Olena Vitrychenko

  Gymnastics, Thinking, Judging

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• I don't play them a lot of minutes. I have great starters. I have All-Stars, world champions.

  Bill Laimbeer

  Basketball, Stars, Play

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• The great World Champions Morphy, Steinitz, and Lasker were past masters in the art of Pawn play; they had no superiors in their handling of endgames. The present World Champion has not the strength of the other three as an endgame player, and is therefore inferior to them.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Art, Past, Player

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• By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion

  Garry Kasparov

  Champion, World, Chess

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• You can't be one of the best freesurfers and a world champion.

  Jordy Smith

  Champion, World

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• I wanted to be a world champion.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Champion, World, Wanted

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

  Anatoly Karpov

  Player, Champion, Chess

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• In the history of each sport, the heroes who win the Olympic gold medal are the ones we remember. Nobody remembers the World Champion 25 years ago, but everyone remembers who the Olympic Champions were, even 100 years ago.

  Lavinia Milosovici

  Sports, Hero, Gymnastics

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