Quotes with champion

  • A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
  • That feeling is one of the things that keep me going. On July 6, 1998, I became the WCW heavyweight champion of the world!
  • Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the cause. Perhaps he will start to champion perjury statutes and obstruction of justice.

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  • Billie Jean King A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Pat Riley A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.
    Pat Riley
    American basketball coach (1945 - )
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  • Robert Frost A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Barbara Olson Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the cause. Perhaps he will start to champion perjury statutes and obstruction of justice.
    Barbara Olson
    American lawyer (1955 - 2001)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler At a certain point, Mike Tyson and I reacted to violence a little differently. I was afraid to leave my house for three years while he became the heavyweight champion of the world. The thing was, at first, we reacted to it the same way, and our cowardice and trauma defined us.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Every absurdity has a champion to defend it; for error is always talkative.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Pat Riley From nobody to upstart. From upstart to contender. From contender to winner. From winner to champion. From champion to Dynasty.
    Pat Riley
    American basketball coach (1945 - )
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  • Muhammad Ali 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
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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  • Brock Lesnar I was a true wrestler. I was a Division I national champion. I came into the business wanting one thing and one thing only, and that was to be the champion, and I wasn't going to let anybody stand in my way. I think there was one guy that had a problem with that, and that was Undertaker.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Chris Evert If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart.
    Chris Evert
    American tennis player (1954 - )
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  • Boris Spassky 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
    Russian chess grandmaster (1937 - )
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler In the summer of 2007, two-time Olympic champion Guillermo Rigondeaux and his teammate, Erislandy Lara, had been arrested in Brazil after going AWOL from the Cuban team during the Pan Am Games. The defection attempt made international news and quickly became a national soap opera, regularly appearing on Cuban news and round table discussions.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Tallulah Bankhead Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, ''I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.''
    Tallulah Bankhead
    American actress (1902 - 1968)
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  • Anatole Rapoport One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.
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  • Boris Spassky Recently I saw Kasparov and he looked to me as still young and potent champion.
    Boris Spassky
    Russian chess grandmaster (1937 - )
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  • Burt Lancaster Take the feeling of hunger out of your gut, and you're no longer a champion.
    Burt Lancaster
    American actor and producer (1913 - 1994)
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  • Bill Goldberg That feeling is one of the things that keep me going. On July 6, 1998, I became the WCW heavyweight champion of the world!
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Jean Claude Killy The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.
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  • Arnold Schwarzenegger The last three or four reps is what makes the muscles grow. This area of pain divides a champion from someone 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
    Austrian-American actor, politican, businessman and investor (1947 - )
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  • John Madden The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.
    John Madden
    American Football broadcaster and coach (1936 - )
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