Champion Quotes - Page 38

• No matter what nationality or color is champion, we Irish like to say that we have a heavyweight champion, Gene Tunney retired, who can come back and take the title at any time.

  Tommy Gibbons

  Color, Boxing, Heavyweights

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• Other men look to him as someone to emulate. His church calls on him for strength and leadership. He is a preserver of culture and a champion of society to keep out evil and usher in good.

  Tony Evans

  Men, Evil, Church

  Tony Evans (2012). “Kingdom Man: Every Man's Destiny, Every Woman's Dream”, p.7, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Nick Diaz is a champion so he's got the spirit that comes with it. So he's not going to give up mentally. You see a lot of guys give up mentally and that's why they get knocked out or submitted. They give up mentally before they lose.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Sports, Perseverance, Giving Up

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• When champions fail, they get back up and try again. They don't let failure discourage them.

  Mary Ellen Clark

  Success, Sports, Trying

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• To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.

  Chris Evert

  Selfish, Tunnels, Tennis

  "Billie Jean King and Chris Evert reminisce about tennis careers". Interview with Liz Clarke, www.washingtonpost.com. July 18, 2011.

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• If she gets the jitters now, then she isn't the great champion that she is.

  Max Robertson

  Tennis, Jitters, Ifs

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• It would be great to give back to this city and its youth brigade important lessons that will help them become future champions. I look forward to this opportunity.

  Pat Cash

  Opportunity, Cities, Giving

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• Sometimes at lectures I am asked: how would the champions of the last century play today? I think that, after making a hurried study of modern openings, and watching one or two tournaments, the champions of the last century, and indeed the century before that, would very quickly occupy the same place that they occupied when they were alive.

  David Bronstein

  Thinking, Play, Two

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• I thought I was playing the world champion, not some 27-eyed monster who sees everything in all positions.

  Tony Miles

  Chess, Monsters, World

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• Carlsen came with a line that was not very theoretical, trying to challenge the World Champion to play chess. [...] But Anand proved that even this obscure line is something he has studied before, and it was Carlsen that was set back.

  Alejandro Ramirez

  Play, Challenges, Trying

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• Who is the man who can call from the back door at night: "Here, Champion Alexander of Clane o' Wind-Holme! Here, Champion Alexander of Clane o' Wind-Holme"?

  Westbrook Pegler

  Dog, Night, Men

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• BYU takes on defending national champion Florida State in the Pigskin Classic in Jacksonville, Fla., eight days after announcing that the 2000 season would be his last before retirement: We looked at it. We knew it would make things tougher. But how many chances does anyone get to play Florida State? It was too good to pass up.

  LaVell Edwards

  Retirement, Play, Florida

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• The story of American wrestling at its greatest is the story of its most illustrious champion, Frank Gotch. He dominated the field. Through his extraordinary ability, he gained for wrestling many converts. It was Gotch's victories over the hitherto invincible Hackenschmidt that made him the post popular mat star in America and started a movement among college men to take up wrestling.

  Nat Fleischer

  Stars, Wrestling, College

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• We should not care much whether those thus united (against slavery) were designated 'Whig,' 'Free Democrat' or something else; though we think some simple name like 'Republican' would more fitly designate those who had united to restore the Union to its true mission of champion and promulgator of Liberty rather than propagandist of slavery.

  Horace Greeley

  Simple, Thinking, Names

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• It's amazing because people come up to me and say, 'Chuck, you're the luckiest guy in the world to be a world karate champion and a movie and TV star.' When they say this to me, I kind of smile because luck had nothing to do with it; God had everything to do with it.

  Chuck Norris

  Stars, People, Guy

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• I certainly do not lament the decadence of knight errantry, nor wish to exchange the protection of the laws for that of the doughtiest champion who ever set lance in rest; but I do, in truth, believe that this knightly sensitiveness of honorable feeling is the best antidote to the petty soul-degrading transactions of every-day life, and that the total want of it is one reason why this free-born race care so very little for the vulgar virtue called probity.

  Frances Trollope

  Believe, Knights, Race

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• Experiencing this pain in my muscles and aching and going on and on is my challenge. 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. I have no fear of fainting. I do squats until I fall over and pass out. So what? It's not going to kill me. I wake up five minutes later and I'm OK. A lot of other athletes are afraid of this. So they don't pass out. They don't go on.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Pain, Fall, Athlete

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• I think I'd rather tell the truth and say what I believe in and make people unhappy than sort of pretend to think something else to accommodate them and try to be liked. That's just the way it goes and I don't think I'm any great champion of anything, but if they're going to put me on a show, I'm going to say what I think.

  Ben Affleck

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Ben Affleck speech before the 2nd Annual Save the Children Illumination Gala, www.dailymail.co.uk. November, 2014.

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• Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward!
  Thou little valiant, great in villainy!
  Thou ever strong upon the stronger side!
  Thou Fortune's champion, that dost never fight
  But where her humorous ladyship is by
  To teach thee safety.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Humorous, Fighting

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1811). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens. With a Selection of Explanatory and Historical Notes, from the Most Eminent Commentators; a History of the Stage, a Life of Shakespeare, &c.[edited] by Alexander Chalmers”, p.231

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• What motivated me to dedicate myself to public service for nearly two-thirds of my life was the chance to produce results for those people who entrusted me to be their voice and their champion.

  Olympia Snowe

  Two, Voice, People

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• It's wonderful for me to see what 'We Will Rock You' has done. 'We Will Rock You' and 'We Are the Champions' have kind of transcended the normal framework of where music is listened to and appreciated - they've become part of public life, which I feel wonderful about.

  Brian May

  Rocks, Normal, Done

  "Queen's Brian May Rocks Out To Physics, Photography". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 3, 2010.

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• I always loved reading. I always was the spelling bee champion. I always loved words. I always wanted to know what they meant, why you used them, who first said them. I was always interested in that.

  Brenda Lee

  Reading, Firsts, Bees

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• I'm not a wushu champion. I was an athlete when I was a kid. I was a swimmer and a runner, but all this action stuff is such a challenge. It really, really is.

  Maggie Q

  Athlete, Kids, Challenges

  "Maggie Q Interview NIKITA". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 26, 2010.

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• Ive always been a champion of kids pursuing their dreams. But sometimes in life, extraordinary circumstances may force us to temporarily put our dreams on hold. The most important thing is to never lose sight of that dream, no matter what punches life may throw in our way.

  Marlo Thomas

  Dream, Kids, Sight

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• A champion shows who he is by what he does.

  Evander Holyfield

  Motivational, Boxing, Doe

  Twitter post from Jan 2, 2017

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