Champion Quotes - Page 21

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Things have been invented because of alcohol. Like the taser, okay? Yeah! The morning after pill, okay? The reach-around. Judge Judy. What has pot given the world? Hackey sack? YEAH! Hilarious ring tones? OH GAH! Ultimate Frisbee Championships? It sucks to be a champion at a sport that can't get you laid. It's an unneeded skill like, I dunno, being the best banjo player. Or a squirter.

  Dave Attell

  Funny, Sports, Morning

  "Dave Attell: Captain Miserable". Documentary, Comedy, December 08, 2007.

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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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• 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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• There are champions in every neighborhood. Anyone can run to the very top. ANYONE! But you have to (a) start right, (b) think right, and (c) believe. Most runners get lost in one or more of those three steps.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Running, Believe, Thinking

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

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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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• 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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• People think they can take a pill and become a champion. But the harder you work, the luckier you get. You have to work a move hundreds or thousands of times.

  Gene LeBell

  Moving, Thinking, People

  Source: writingfighting.wordpress.com

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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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• Being champion is just priceless. I'm not trying to sound arrogant or anything but being Olympic champ, you have every country coming together and competing. Doing what they do best, getting awards, money. Coming together and competing in the most competitive way possible with the best from all these different countries on Earth and winning. To me that's priceless.

  Henry Cejudo

  Country, Winning, Awards

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• I was national amateur champion. I was 24 years old. My father was there, and I couldn't wait to see him, and my mother. I went up and was waiting for all the accolades, and my mom was teary and happy and my dad looked at me and said, "Well, boy, you did good," and that was it.

  Arnold Palmer

  Mom, Mother, Dad

  Source: kellysgolfhistory.blogspot.com

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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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• Fourteen weeks before the Mendes fight I tore 80 per cent of my ACL [anterior cruciate ligament]. That is the main ligament for stability. Every day in that training camp when I was working my way back, I was saying "real champions fight through any adversity". That is why I am a real champion and he is not. Look at my eye [he had seven stitches put in an old wound after an injury in training the night before we met]. Fighters fight on. Aldo got scared, he went running and I worry he will run again.

  Conor McGregor

  Running, Real, Eye

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• Real champions fight through adversity.

  Conor McGregor

  Real, Adversity, Fighting

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• If you can go through the pain period, you make it to be a champion. If you can't go through it, forget it. And that's what most people lack: having the guts - the guts to go in and just say... "I don't care what happens"

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Pain, People, Care

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• Champions keep going when they don't have anything left in their tank!

  Eric Thomas

  Tanks, Left, Keep Going

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• I studied every move, I became fascinated by thinking what I could have done differently. And I take that approach now as a professional. I am on it, all the time, never stop thinking, learning. You don't get to be world champion unless you do that.

  Conor McGregor

  Moving, Thinking, Done

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• The US government should be the champion for the internet, not a threat. They need to be much more transparent about what they're doing, or otherwise people will believe the worst.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Believe, Government, People

  Facebook post by Mark Zuckerberg, www.facebook.com. March 14, 2014.

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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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• On Rafael Nadal: Every point he plays is like match point. That's why he's the champion right now.

  Bjorn Borg

  Sports, Play, Nadal

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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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