World Champions Quotes - Page 3

• We know that the French are very different from the Americans in their satisfaction with life. They're much less satisfied. Americans are pretty high up there, while the French are quite low - the world champions in life satisfaction are actually the Danes.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Champion, Different, World

  "Are You Happy Now?". Interview with Jennifer Robison, www.gallup.com. February 10, 2005.

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• Believing in myself and not to be afraid of taking any risks. I have to be better than the average person to succeed. That’s why I chose bodybuilding. If I became a world champion, if I could win admiration from my peers, I could do anything.

  Lou Ferrigno

  Believe, Bodybuilding, Winning

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• My most difficult opponent is myself. When I am playing I often involuntarily make a world champion out of a candidate master.

  Lev Polugaevsky

  Psychology, Champion, World

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• Although I have to say, it's become a lot harder for me since I won the world series because everyone wants to beat me. For example, bluffing is really tough now, because there's always someone who calls me on the off-chance that they'll then be able to say they read a world champion's bluff.

  Chris Moneymaker

  Champion, Want, Able

  Interview with Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2005.

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• Whatever luck I had, I made. I was never a natural athlete, but I paid my dues in sweat and concentration and took the time necessary to learn karate and become world champion.

  Chuck Norris

  Athlete, Sweat, Champion

  Chuck Norris, Joe Hyams (1989). “The secret of inner strength: my story”, Diamond Books

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• ... Tal accepted absolutely all the world champion's conditions with a smile, taking away a very important psychological trump card from him - the harsh, prickly relations with his opponent that were characteristic of all Botvinnik's matches.

  Gennadi Sosonko

  Psychology, Champion, Important

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• Part of my preparation for the World Champion match against Kasparov was to be ready for his off-board tactics. I did not to react to them at all. Once you start thinking about these things during the game, even analysing them, you're caught.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Thinking, Games, Psychology

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• I thought I was playing the world champion, not some 27-eyed monster who sees everything in all positions.

  Tony Miles

  Champion, Chess, Monsters

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• All these nice people saying I'm going to be world champion won't make me any faster, you have to believe it yourself.

  Sebastian Vettel

  Nice, Believe, People

  "Vettel: 'They called me Baby Schumi. I didn't like it but I understood'" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2010.

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• In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Father, Champion, World

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The Philadelphia Phillies are 2008 world champions of baseball.

  Harry Kalas

  Baseball, Philadelphia, Champion

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• Building a better life for every child is a lot harder than becoming a world champion. Both goals take dedication and commitment.

  Yuna

  Children, Commitment, Dedication

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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, Champion, Looks

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• When you go to other parks, they hang banners for the wild-card or Eastern Division or Western Division champions. Around here, they don't hang anything unless its for being world champions.

  Chili Davis

  Yankees, Champion, World

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• I trained and trained and went up against Kurt, then being a world champion in '94, and after that I did Tommy's tour and then my tour and all this stuff and just trying to deal with it all. And now, I've just kind of backed off a little.

  Elvis Stojko

  Sports, Champion, Trying

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• ... America has amnesia. ... Certainly, there is a passion for memory loss in American thought. ... Americans may be the world champion forgetters.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Memories, Passion, Loss

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• Being the undisputed world champion is a relief. We instituted a unified chess title, I am the absolute world champion.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Champion, Titles, Relief

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• We need strong personalities and only one world champion to attract sponsors.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Strong, Personality, Champion

  "Anatoly Karpov speaks his mind". Interview with Hartmut Metz, en.chessbase.com. July 6, 2005.

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• Jay Lethal doing that Black Machsimo character, as good as that was, it was fantastic and so entertaining. But now Jay Lethal has turned himself into this very formidable, dominant world champion, who is having some of the best matches in the entire world. So it's really cool.

  Adam Cole

  Character, Champion, Black

  Source: 411mania.com

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• I've been trained by a two-time world champion kickboxer, who's local to where I come from, and who is really just there to keep me fit and healthy while I'm shooting.

  Kieran Bew

  Two, Healthy, Champion

  Source: collider.com

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• Judah Friedlander, I'm ok with you being the world champion for a few years more. That's a hook with legs. But I think he should make one more hat, that says 'there's a limit to how funny words on a hat can be'. And then move to a chapeau.

  Andy Kindler

  Moving, Thinking, Years

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• His teaching became a turning point in chess history: it was from Steinitz that the era of modern chess began. The contribution of the first world champion to its development is comparable with the great scientific discoveries of the 19th century.

  Garry Kasparov

  Teaching, Discovery, Champion

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• Ruslan Chagaev is a great boxer and very experienced. He has won almost all of his fights and has already been world champion. And he is a fair sportsman. That is something I like. I have a lot of respect for him.

  Alexander Povetkin

  Fighting, Champion, World

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• Anyone will succeed in whatever field of endeavor in life by acquiring the same virtues and character that boxing world champions do - dedication, perseverance, courage, extreme self-discipline and prayers

  Manny Pacquiao

  Perseverance, Prayer, Character

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• I'm going to give the people their money's worth...true sports entertainment for their dollar. I'm the undefeated IBF Light Heavyweight World Champion making my fifth title defense. The crowd will be with me because everybody wants to be with a winner.

  Tavoris Cloud

  Sports, Light, People

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