Champion Quotes - Page 20

• 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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• 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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• Give me a sport that is greater than wrestling, that's more dominant than wrestling and with more champions in fighting than with wrestling. There isn't. The sport that's king is wrestling.

  Henry Cejudo

  Sports, Kings, Wrestling

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• All my fans, especially my Latino fans and Nicaraguan fans, I promise you I will become world champion. After I become world champion Piccirillo can go back to Italy and make pizza or pasta or whatever it is he does over there.

  Ricardo Mayorga

  Promise, Fans, Doe

  Source: www.boxnews.com.ua

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• You certainly get used to winning in general. Winning the Champions League is a very particular feeling, but it's really the journey that makes it special. Every journey that brings you toward a win is important.

  Clarence Seedorf

  Winning, Journey, Champions League

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• That's the most terrible mistake you can make: to relax. It's difficult to become a champion, but it's more difficult to maintain it for many years because you're getting too comfortable.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Mistake, Years, Relax

  Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com. October 21, 2011.

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• All I care about is that people are being entertained. It's not about being the world champion [in wrestling], it's about exciting the people. If you walk away entertained, then I did my job, and that's all I care about.

  Randy Savage

  Jobs, Wrestling, People

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. May 28, 2004.

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• I think every great champion has a bad night.

  Ricardo Mayorga

  Night, Thinking, Bad Night

  Source: www.boxnews.com.ua

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• I never boxed until 17 and a half, I was in the Olympics at 19, and I was world champion when I was 20. I never watched a boxing match life in my life. The only boxer I had ever heard of was Muhammad Ali.

  Jeff Fenech

  Boxing, Half, World

  Source: fitefansho.blogspot.com

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• If I want to win a title I have to beat the champion myself, I don't have teammates inside the ring.

  Travis Browne

  Winning, Titles, Teammate

  Interview with Elias Trejo, www.askmen.com.

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• India's fortune will depend on how many runs the little champion scores. There is no doubt Tendulkar is the real thing.

  Sunil Gavaskar

  Running, Real, Doubt

  "Legends' take on Sachin Tendulkar". sports.ndtv.com. November 12, 2009.

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• I come out of the environment of the Deep South, where I had seen the millstone of racial discrimination weighting down my people, both the black people and the white people; and I had seen the enormous progress that we were able to make after we removed the legal restraints of a two-class society, with the whites superior and blacks inferior. So I was very convinced before I became President that basic human rights, equality of opportunity, the end of abuse by governments of their people, was a basic principle on which the United States should be an acknowledged champion.

  Jimmy Carter

  Opportunity, Rights, Government

  The National Security Archive Interview, nsarchive.gwu.edu.

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