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I think that the World Champion should try to defend the quality of play more than anyone else. -- Boris Spassky
To be a champion you must act like one, act like a champion. -- Lou Ferrigno
The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking. -- Mia Hamm
I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.' -- Muhammad Ali
The Youngest World Heavyweight Champion in History! -- Randy Orton
Champions keep playing until they get it right. -- Billie Jean King
Ten thousand years as Intercontinental Champion, Oooooh yeeeah! -- Randy Savage
I don't want ever to be champion again. -- Boris Spassky
Destiny's Champion, Fate's fool. Eternity's Soldier, Time's Tool. -- Michael Moorcock
We aim above the mark to hit the mark. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion. -- Mia Hamm
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. -- Jimmy Johnson
To be the World Champion in 1981 was a huge honour. -- Ric Flair
Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion. -- Major Taylor
You're the WWE Champion and I would never let you down! -- Alex Riley
FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title. -- Bobby Fischer
We need strong personalities and only one world champion to attract sponsors -- Anatoly Karpov
My goal is to be the undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the World. -- Evander Holyfield
Of course, we all know what UFC stands for - Undefeated Floyd's Champion -- Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
What happened in the past is just that, the past. Champion or not. -- Steve Nash
The man who follows is forever at your back, something to consider Champion. -- Crixus
I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion. -- Billie Jean King
People still look at me as the champion and that's very important to me. -- Marvin Hagler
True champions aren't always the ones that win, but those with the most guts. -- Mia Hamm
I did not want to be a Champion growing up, just a fast skater. -- Shani Davis
I want to go out like a Champion, I want to be carried out -- James J. Braddock
I have always maintained that Iggy Pop is the Heavyweight Champion of Rock & Roll. -- Henry Rollins
If you want to become a World Champion you should avoid playing in Open tournaments. -- Anatoly Karpov
USC is the National Champion like Al Gore is the President of the United States. -- Mark Emmert
The next thing you're going to tell me is Daniel Bryan is the United States Champion. -- Vince McMahon
The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion. -- Jean-Claude Killy
Not only will I beat you tonight...I'll beat you this Sunday and become World Heavyweight Champion! -- Oscar Gutierrez
If you're the Olympic champion then they have to wait four more years to get you again. -- Usain Bolt
I didn't think I was so tough until I did 'Champion'; then I was a tough guy. -- Kirk Douglas
I knew that I had done something that no man had been able to do to a champion. -- Thomas Hearns
You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round. -- James J. Corbett
I don't need to be fixed anymore. That job's already been done. I love you, Annabelle. -Heath Champion- -- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
I'm not too sure how much you get for winning the Champion's League, but it's definitely 10 million euros. -- David Pleat
I never go looking for a sucker. I look for a Champion and make a sucker of of him. -- Amarillo Slim
I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them -- Armand Assante
Went from most hated to the Champion God Flow, I guess that's a feelin' only me and LeBron know. -- Kanye West
You can be free. You can be black. Look at me! I'm the Heavyweight Champion! Can't nobody stop me. -- Muhammad Ali
Champions know that there's something inside that makes a champion, and other people think that it might something external. -- Urijah Faber
I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal. -- Dorothy Hamill
We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war. -- Jimmy Carter
Champions are not generated from the championship. Champion is generated from something they have in them, desires, dreams, and visions. -- Muhammad Ali
Superman! Champion of the oppressed. The physical marvel who had sworn to devote his existence to helping those in need. -- Jerry Siegel
The only reason why you were WWE Champion for a year, is because Triple H didn't want to work Tuesdays. -- Paul Heyman
I happen to be a three-time former WWF Champion and a hardcore legend, and I never had my own dressing room. -- Mick Foley
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. -- Muhammad Ali
I can't even imagine what it's like and right now I'm like in shock, I can't believe that I'm Olympic Champion. -- Tara Lipinski
A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol. -- Jack Dempsey
I wanted "Champion" to accompany that whole growth situation, 'cause I feel like, if you go overtime, you will become a champion. -- Ace Hood
You have to bear in mind that Mr. Autry's favorite horse was named Champion. He ain't ever had one called Runner Up. -- Gene Mauch
Ali and I have become friends over the years. I was on a plane with him one time when he was the champion. -- Robert Goulet
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
As the World Champion, every day is pretty much like Valentine's Day for me - as far as hooking up with the ladies. -- Judah Friedlander
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
Champion the right to be yourself; dare to be different and to set your own pattern, live your own life, and follow your own star. -- Wilferd Peterson
By no means because I am a World Champion will I ever stop learning and that's the biggest thing that's difficult for someone to see. -- Elvis Stojko
If you want to be a Champion, you've got to feel like one, you've got to act like one, you've got to look like one. -- Red Auerbach
We've got goals we're trying to reach, and "Overtime" is the only way to do it, and "Champion" is the only thing we're tryin' to be. -- Ace Hood
One can always learn from others. The Champion's Mind holds a wealth of insight as to how you can become a winner in your everyday life. -- Phil Mahre
My shirt and my hat always say 'World Champion' in some language. English, Spanish, Chinese, 'Star Wars' language, which is also known as Aurebesh, mermaid language. -- Judah Friedlander
Who is the man who can call from the back door at night: "Here, Champion Alexander of Clane o' Wind-Holme! Here, Champion Alexander of Clane o' Wind-Holme"? -- Westbrook Pegler
I've always been a fan at home. That's the one joke I have with Sam [Champion]. "I've always loved you! I remember wanting to be you in grade school!" -- Chris Cuomo
I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular. -- Jackie Stewart
I started a business with two guys I played with, Ronnie Lott and Harris Barton: Champion Ventures, it's a fund of funds. We have $400 million or so under management. -- Joe Montana
Ever since I was a child I always wanted to be WWE Champion. I've been in love with sports-entertainment for my entire life, and I always wanted to do that. -- David Otunga
Whether I'm a Super Bowl Champion or a regular guy stocking groceries at the Hy-Vee, sharing my faith and glorifying Jesus is the central focus of my time on this earth. -- Kurt Warner
You know, every morning that I wake up...I realize that being World Champion is a gift. And let me be the one to tell you I'm loving every minute of it! -- Oscar Gutierrez
Phoebe tapped the toe of her sneaker against the dock. "There's only one good use for a man like Heath Champion." "Here we go again," Molly muttered. Phoebe's lip curled. "Target practice. -- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
It always hurts a bit to pick the 'wrong one' in a race as big as the Champion Hurdle, and then, to make matters worse, you go and get beat by the horse you rejected. -- Tony McCoy
A Champion is all they can be in every facet of their lives. They prioritize what they need to get done. But for me it's someone who works every single day on being a better person. -- Shannon Higgins-Cirovski
When I auditioned for 'Bye Bye Birdie' on Broadway, Gower Champion said, 'You've got the job!' I said, 'Mr. Champion, I can't dance.' He said, 'We'll teach you what you need to know.' -- Dick Van Dyke
A true champion will fight through anything. -- Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
A champion is someone who gets up when he can't. -- Jack Dempsey
A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning. -- Billie Jean King
If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart. -- Chris Evert
There's a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are. -- Matthew McConaughey
Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion. -- Eric Maisel
Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had. -- Jim Yong Kim
For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I'm working on it. -- Usain Bolt
The political Right likes to champion individual rights and individual liberty, but it has also worked to enforce morality in relation to abortion, gambling, and homosexuality. -- Dave Brat
I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion. -- Mia Hamm
To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost. -- Chris Evert
Research confirms that both Republican and Democratic women are more likely than their male counterparts to initiate and fight for bills that champion social justice, protect the environment, advocate for families, and promote nonviolent conflict resolution. -- Dee Dee Myers
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
We need to empower women. Give women a voice in the decision-making process. Give women a political voice where they can champion, for their own welfare. And, of course, for us. United Nations - organizations, agencies - we need to do our part. -- Margaret Chan
For your friends and family, you are always a champion, but for the media and sponsors, not until you show a spark. Making a champ is more important than celebrating one. I want to be there for youngsters and help them do their best. -- Gagan Narang
The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday. -- Wilma Rudolph
And fifth, we will champion small businesses, America's engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business, not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare. -- Mitt Romney
In terms of playing ability there is nothing to choose between number one and 100. Instead, it's a question of who believes and who wants it more? Which player is mentally stronger? Which player is going to fight the hardest in the big points? These are the things that determine who is the champion. -- Novak Djokovic
The teachers' unions that block school reform have done serious damage to the union brand. The public no longer views unions as their friend, much less their champion. They view them as corrupt, intransigent and more interested in protecting their political clout within the Democratic Party than protecting their members or even school children. -- Juan Williams
I didn't have to win, and winning wasn't important to me. Being world champion wasn't important to me. What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it. -- Dwayne Johnson
It's amazing because people come up to me and say, 'Chuck, you're the luckiest guy in the world to be a world karate champion and a movie and TV star.' When they say this to me, I kind of smile because luck had nothing to do with it; God had everything to do with it. -- Chuck Norris
I went to see President Nixon at the White House. It wasn't difficult to get a meeting because I was heavyweight champion of the world. So I came to Washington and walked around the garden with Nixon, his wife and daughter. I said: I want you to give Ali his licence back. I want to beat him up for you. -- Joe Frazier
To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It's not about winning and losing; it's about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge. It's about embracing the pain that you'll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid. I think people think too hard and get afraid of a certain challenge. -- Summer Sanders
Champions are not the ones who always win races - champions are the ones who get out there and try. And try harder the next time. And even harder the next time. 'Champion' is a state of mind. They are devoted. They compete to best themselves as much if not more than they compete to best others. Champions are not just athletes. -- Simon Sinek
Inches make a champion. -- Vince Lombardi
I'm world champion, baby! -- Jenson Button
Every child needs a champion. -- Hillary Clinton
I want to be a champion. -- Kevin Durant
Once a champion, always a champion. -- Ferdinand Marcos
The champion makes his own luck. -- Earl Blaik
I wanted to be a world champion. -- Manny Pacquiao
Runner up is champion of the losers. -- Raheel Farooq
Vicodin and vodka the breakfast of champion's. -- George Allen
I'm going to be a 'Chopped' champion. -- Judy Gold
A true champion can adapt to anything. -- Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Persistence is the soul of a champion. -- Alan Webb
Never underestimate the heart of a champion. -- Rudy Tomjanovich
I've been proud to be national champion. -- David Millar
Rule #76: No excuses. Play like a champion! -- Vince Vaughn
Walk like a champion! Talk like a champion! -- Buju Banton
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it. -- Oliver Goldsmith
To become a champion, fight one more round. -- James Corbitt
Become a champion like Stone Cold Steve Austin! -- Stone Cold Steve Austin
I am a champion who makes an impact. -- John Cena

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