Champion Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• There are no office hours for champions.

  Paul Dietzel

  Office, Effort, American Football

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• I was ready in 2008 for the Olympic Games but unfortunately I missed the Kenyan trials with a thigh injury. I watched those Olympics but it was tough to watch. But it was good in the end because a Kenyan, Wilfred Bungei, was the champion.

  David Rudisha

  Games, Watches, Trials

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• The Olympics is a special event and winning is very important. For me as a world record holder and world champion, the only thing I am missing is the Olympic gold medal and that is what I want to achieve in my career.

  David Rudisha

  Winning, Careers, Missing

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• A perfect record does not mean that someone is the greatest. Rocky Marciano never lost a fight, but I never hear anyone say he's the greatest heavyweight champion of all time.

  Steve Sabol

  Mean, Fighting, Perfect

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• You can't be a champion until you can beat a bear.

  Daniel Bryan

  Bears, Beats, Cant

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Ten thousand years as Intercontinental Champion, Oooooh yeeeah!

  Randy Savage

  Years, Thousand, Ten

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• People say that it was degrading for an Olympic champion to run against a horse, but what was I supposed to do? I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals. There was no television, no big advertising, no endorsements then. Not for a black man, anyway.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Running, Horse

  "Owens pierced a myth" by Larry Schwartz, www.espn.com.

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• A successful life is expensive; it will cost you something to become a champion.

  Mike Murdock

  Successful, Cost, Life Is

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• It is absolutely vital that we do all we can to allow Americans to practice their religious ways, while simultaneously ensuring that no one's beliefs infringe upon those of others. We should also serve as champions of freedom of religion throughout the world.

  Benjamin Carson

  Religious, Freedom, Practice

  "EXCLUSIVE: Dr. Ben Carson: ‘Absolutely Vital’ Americans Stand Up For Indiana’s Religious Freedom Law" by Alex Swoyer, www.breitbart.com. March 30, 2015.

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• When I was 15 or 16 and I started climbing up the ladder of success in amateur boxing, a reporter asked me, "What do you want to be?" I think he was expecting me to say, "A champion." I said, "I want to be special." I don't know why I said that, but I didn't just want to be a fighter. I wanted to have an impact with people, particularly kids.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Kids, Thinking, Impact

  "Sugar Ray Leonard Interview Real Steel". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 6, 2011.

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• The reason I'm interested in alternative worlds and near-future settings is that it allows us to look at our own limitations in our worldviews. These settings allow me to explore how our world might evolve if we allow individualistic kinds of success to remain our primary value. I'm not trying to be overly bleak, and I don't feel bleak or sad about our world. I want empowered and educated people who understand a lot about the world's challenges to strive to be noble, rather than cynical. I think we still need more champions out there.

  Jennifer Phang

  Thinking, Our World, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• When I was 15 years old I felt totally confident I would become a world champion and the greatest bodybuilder in the world. The same was true of show business - I knew that one day I would make more money than anyone else in the industry and I did. For that you need the willingness to work and do everything it takes to make the vision turn into reality.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Reality, Years, Vision

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Jenny Simpson loses her shoe in the women's fifteen hundred, with a lap and a half to go, destroying her chances to repeat as world champion, and she gives the most gracious interview afterward about how she's had a wonderful career already. Great for Jenny Simpson. Bad for the sport! We need drama!

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Sports, Drama, Careers

  "Usain Bolt, a Collapse, and an Epic Beer Mile". Interview with Nicholas Thompson, www.newyorker.com. August 27, 2015.

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• It's emotional for every champion who decides to step down, it's a tough decision. It's probably easier for some, like me. But I'm just going to try to take it in stride. It's part of life.

  Ben Crenshaw

  Life, Emotional, Decision

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• I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Excess, Moderation, Foe

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.94, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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