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I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion -- Billie Jean King
I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion. -- Billie Jean King
The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else. -- John Madden
Any true champion can bounce back. That's what being a champion is: being able to deal with adversity and being able to bounce back. -- Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson. -- Oscar Robertson
In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I was a King - and when you are King you feel a lot of responsibility, but there is nobody there to help you. -- Boris Spassky
Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown. -- Althea Gibson
The integral part of being a star is having the will to win. All the champions have it. -- Betty Cuthbert
I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them. -- Armand Assante
Being a world champion is something I'm already proud of and can take for the rest of my life. -- Nonito Donaire
To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well. -- Anatoly Karpov
To be a champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well. -- Anatoly Karpov
When at a young age you learn to face your fears, that makes the difference between people being champions and people not being champions. -- Evander Holyfield
I champion the idea of being more conscious. I call it being an active architect of your own life. Building your life like an architect builds a structure. -- Hill Harper
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
When I started off riding, you dream about being champion jockey. Then I wanted to be champion jockey again. Then I wanted to ride 200 winners in a season. Then, when there was a chance of riding more winners than Richard Dunwoody, that was my goal. -- Tony McCoy
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
Prior to 'Action' and 'Justice League 1,' there was no label 'superhero' for a superpowered being. It's really the emergence of Superman and the Justice League that gets the public comfortable with the idea of people amongst us who have extraordinary power and that they've agreed to be our champions. -- Jim Lee
Creating emotion was what my career was all about. I wanted people to laugh at me; I wanted people to cry with me. I wanted people to feel good or to think about something when they watched me. I think that's why, even not being an Olympic champion, I have such a huge following around the world. -- Johnny Weir
After 20 years of writing in basically a vacuum, I love being part of a community. I've vetted other writers' contracts for them and do publicity for free just because I like a book. Some people think of it as hubris or careerism, but I love to champion books. You can't use your whole sphere of influence just to help yourself. -- Jonathan Evison
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
I think as a Canadian hockey player, you go through it in your mind so many times, being able to stand on that blue line and hear your national anthem play and being a gold medal champion, you dream of that. And then to be able to accomplish that and actually win a gold medal and represent your country its an amazing feeling. -- Sidney Crosby
My aim is to motivate a human being, to find the champion within -- Johnny G
Being intercontinental champion doesn't mean you're a champ. It means you're the future. -- Cody Rhodes
No champion has ever lifted a trophy that was not already being held inside. -- Steve Ilg
Being a champion opens lots of doors"?I'd like to get a real estate license, maybe sell insurance. -- Mike Tyson
I've always been motivated to be a champion since the age of 13 and I love being a winner. -- Joe Calzaghe
I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them -- Armand Assante
Being the undisputed world champion is a relief. We instituted a unified chess title, I am the absolute world champion. -- Viswanathan Anand
Being a 3-time Intercontinental champion doesn't make you a great wrestler, just like Larry King having 9 wives don't make him a great husband. -- Jerry Lawler
The lad who dreams of being a boxing champion or an admiral chooses reality. If the writer chooses the imaginary, he confuses the two. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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
Being a champion and staying that way is the most difficult thing to deal with. Everyone sees you as a target. They want to bring you down. -- Tomoki Kameda

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