Champion Quotes - Page 18

• Those who need a champion cannot afford compromise, in the face of forces that are powerful, persistent and pernicious and greedy.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Powerful, Faces, Needs

  "Elizabeth Edwards: 'With Less Armor Than I Have, They Fight Too'". Elizabeth Edwards' speech at Consumer Watchdog’s 2007 Rage for Justice dinner, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 7, 2010.

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• When I was in grade school and we had to write papers about what we wanted to be when we grew up, I wanted to be a social worker or a missionary or a teacher... Then I got involved with tennis, and everything was just me, me, me. I was totally selfish and thought about myself and nobody else, because if you let up for one minute, someone was going to come along and beat you. I really wouldn't let anyone or any slice of happiness enter... I didn't like the characteristics that it took to become a champion.

  Chris Evert

  Happiness, Teacher, Selfish

  "'I've Lived A Charmed Life'". Interview with Sally Jenkins, www.si.com. May 25, 1992.

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• 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

  Needs, Done, Better Person

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• Tolerance does not...do anything, embrace anyone, champion any issue. It wipes the notes off the score of life and replaces them with one long bar of rest. It does not attack error, it does not champion truth, it does not hate evil, it does not love good.

  Walter Farrell

  Hate, Errors, Issues

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• You have to believe on the court. In the end, it's mental. In these moments against a great champion like Rafa, you have to believe. It's all about stepping in and taking your chances. I always believed, but it's a process of learning.

  Novak Djokovic

  Believe, Player, Tennis

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• Unless you took courses in architecture, engineering, or pre-med, the rest of your liberal arts education hardly prepares you for life as the business warrior and champion you envision yourself to be.

  Gene Simmons

  Inspirational, Art, Warrior

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• I have always felt and said that a man who can be a champion in one era could be a champion in any other era because he has what it takes to reach the top.

  Ben Hogan

  Golf, Men, Eras

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• On golfer Rory McIlroy's collapse in the final round of the 2011 Masters: We had hoped to compare the young Northern Irishman to the great Masters champions but instead had to reach for the compendium of great golfing train wrecks.

  Matt Dickinson

  Failure, Train Wrecks, Finals

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• 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

  Jesus, Focus, Guy

  "From Supermarket to Super Bowl" by Milton Berle, www.crosswalk.com. October 30, 2002.

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• They're crying. It was Drogba, it was the angels, it was the heavens, it was the stars, it was the gods, it was everything for Chelsea. This is not anything to do with football. This is more than football, this is spirit. Never giving in, fighting to the end, that English spirit running right the way through this Champions League for Chelsea.

  Gary Neville

  Running, Football, Stars

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• Champions get up when they can't.

  Jack Dempsey

  Get Up

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• I like fast cars. And I like champions.

  Martina Hingis

  Car, Fast Car

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• You see, when you're middle class, you have to live with the fact that history will ignore you. You have to live with the fact that history can never champion your causes and that history will never feel sorry for you. It is the price that is paid for day-to-day comfort and silence. And because of this price, all happinesses are sterile; all sadnesses go unpitied.

  Douglas Coupland

  Sorry, Sadness, Class

  "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture". Book by Douglas Coupland, 1991.

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• We were almost getting used to playing without fans in the Champions League. Jokes aside though, I think help from our fans will be indispensable for such a big match.

  Roberto Mancini

  Thinking, Champions League, Fans

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• If the WWF was about talent, Taka Michinoku would have been WWF champion

  Mick Foley

  Talent, Wwf, Has Beens

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• Part of me didn't know if Australia wanted its champion to be gay.

  Ian Thorpe

  Gay, Australia, Wanted

  "Ian Thorpe: I'm finally comfortable saying I'm a gay man" by Amanda Meade, www.theguardian.com. July 13, 2014.

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• I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.

  Idi Amin

  Athlete, Boxing, Want

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• When the Champions League is at stake, ... you do everything you can, whether it's called gamesmanship or cheating, to put the opposition off.

  Jamie Carragher

  Cheating, Champions League, Stakes

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• I have no problem with two teams claiming to be national champions at the end of the year. But that's our society. We're dying to know who the champion is. Heaven forbid we have two. That would be socialist, right?

  Kirk Ferentz

  Team, Years, Two

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• No one can hate petitions worse than I, and no one has less faith in them than I. But for my champion I am willing to try any means that invades no other's right, even though I have little hope in it.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Hate, Mean, Trying

  Voltairine de Cleyre (2012). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.236, SUNY Press

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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, Chess, World

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• I won't lie, I want to play in the Champions League and challenge for titles.

  Pepe Reina

  Lying, Play, Champions League

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• 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.

  Anatol Rapoport

  Life, Peace, War

  "Strategy and Conscience" by Anatol Rapoport, Harper & Row, (p. 195), 1964.

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• It is very good to be Olympic champion, but that is not the strongest field.

  Martin Lel

  Fields, Very Good, Strongest

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• Those that God used in the past were just ordinary people with an extraordinary Master. They were not all champions of great faith, but little people who saw their own need, and put their small faith in a great God.

  Winkie Pratney

  Past, People, Ordinary

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