Champion Quotes - Page 39

• 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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• MY greatest regret in life is that I never became the heavyweight boxing champion ofthe world.

  Nelson Mandela

  Regret, Boxing, Heavyweights

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• If the Humanists wish to be champions of reason, they should consider the following: just as they would not admit mystics into their camp, since no rational discussion is possible with men who substitute supernatural revelations for rational evidence-so they cannot admit advocates of force into their camp, because no rational discussion or agreement is possible with men who substitute guns for rational persuasion.

  Ayn Rand

  Gun, Men, Wish

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• When you see a successful individual, a champion, you can be very sure that you are looking at an individual who pays great attention to the perfection of minor details.

  John Wooden

  Successful, Perfection, Details

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• I’m American. I can’t stand Brazilians. They live in a third-world country anyway, so they’ll go anywhere if there’s a little money. I live in America. I want to be a champion of an American organization.

  Phil Baroni

  Country, Organization, America

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• It is everything I thought it would be; being the Olympic champion, it definitely is an amazing feeling. And I give all the glory to God. It's kind of a win-win situation. The glory goes up to him and the blessings fall down on me.
  Let all that I am praise the LORD; may I never forget the good things He does for me.

  Gabby Douglas

  Fall, Blessing, Winning

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• We remember those who were called upon to give all a person can give, and we remember those who were prepared to make that sacrifice if it were demanded of them in the line of duty, though it never was. Most of all, we remember the devotion and gallantry with which all of them ennobled their nation as they became champions of a noble cause.

  Ronald Reagan

  Sacrifice, Our Veterans, Giving

  V-Day Ceremony Address at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, delivered 11 November 1988, Washington D.C.

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• To experience the agony of defeat makes you stronger. It's like taking one step back and two steps forward. To experience the agony of defeat makes you appreciate the experience of winning. That's what makes a champion.

  Leon Spinks

  Winning, Agony, Two

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• Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.

  Daley Thompson

  Ambition, Different, Becoming

  "Don't go nuts, Bolt: Daley Thompson says sprint ace must get head in order" by Alex Spink, www.mirror.co.uk. July 14, 2012.

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• People know I was the last true champion.

  Lennox Lewis

  People, Lasts, Knows

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• The mission I set out on in the beginning - to become heavyweight champion of the world, undisputed, lineal champion - you could say that mission is complete.

  Lennox Lewis

  Heavyweights, World, Missions

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• I've been proud to be national champion.

  David Millar

  Proud

  "Hard ride to redemption for one man and his sport" by William Fotheringham, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2008.

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