Champion Quotes - Page 4

• Regaining the Champions Cup is not going to be easy.

  Luis Figo

  Cups, Easy

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• What I can tell them is the way you become an Olympic champion is to start working now. I tell them why it's always worth it to put the time and effort into something you want to be good at.

  Rafer Johnson

  Motivational, Athlete, Effort

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• The situation right after the fight wasn't too good; I believe I'm still the only champion in the world who never received the belt inside the ring once you've won the title. I held that against the English fans for a long time but I felt that also motivated me.

  Marvin Hagler

  Sports, Believe, Fighting

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• In Cuba we use our champions to promote the sport.

  Alberto Juantorena

  Sports, Cuba, Use

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• When we got knocked out against Porto in the Champions League, I only slept two hours that night. I was not a nice person to be with after that match. I was struggling to get the result out of my system.

  Ruud van Nistelrooy

  Nice, Struggle, Night

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• As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions.

  Brad Sherman

  Achievement, Athletic, Honor

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• We were the best team in the world: European champions in 1984, we qualified without a hitch and 86 was to be the swan song for a very experienced side.

  Michel Patini

  Song, Team, Swans

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• The Champions League is the competition everyone wants to be in.

  Steven Gerrard

  Soccer, Champions League, Competition

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

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• Now people all across America are starting to believe in America again. We are coming back, back to the heights of greatness, back to America's proud role as a temple of justice and a champion of peace.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  Peace, Believe, Greatness

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• It's not where you start but where you finish.

  April Heinrichs

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• Coffee, It's the life blood that fuels the dreams of champions!

  Mike Ditka

  Dream, Coffee, Blood

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• To become a champion, fight one more round.

  James Corbitt

  Motivational, Sports, Determination

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• Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Practice, Nba

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• We're scared of losing. That's why we win. We know what it's like to lose and we hate it. We enjoy being champions too much.

  Bob Bourne

  Hate, Hockey, Winning

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• I'm not afraid of anyone, but sometimes I'm afraid of myself. The mental part is very important.

  Justine Henin

  Sports, Tennis, Important

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• I remember as a kid, I was improvising and making little trophies out of different materials and going in front of the mirror, lifting the trophies and saying 'Nole was the champion!'

  Novak Djokovic

  Kids, Mirrors, Tennis

  "Visualizing greatness: How Novak Djokovic rose to the top" by Matthew Knight, edition.cnn.com. January 28, 2013.

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• For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other part of the body.

  Gary Neville

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• A champion is someone who does not settle for that day's practice, that day's competition, that day's performance. They are always striving to be better. They don't live in the past.

  Briana Scurry

  Inspirational, Motivational, Soccer

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• Hard work is always hard work, for young gymnasts and old gymnasts. Whoever can handle this will be a champion.

  Svetlana Boginskaya

  Motivational, Hard Work, Gymnastics

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• If you are going to be a champion, you must be willing to pay a greater price.

  Bud Wilkinson

  Inspirational, Sports, Preparation

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• I'll let the racket do the talking.

  John McEnroe

  Funny, Sports, Volleyball

  The Times (London), June 26, 1984.

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• But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero, Trying, Trials

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.134, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Champions are champions not because they do anything extraordinary but because they do the ordinary things better than anyone else.

  Chuck Noll

  Sports, Ordinary, Motivational Sports

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• Heart in champions has to do with the depth of our motivation and how well your mind and body react to pressure - that is, being able to do what you do best under maximum pain and stress.

  Bill Russell

  Basketball, Pain, Motivation

  Bill Russell, Taylor Branch (1980). “Second wind: the memoirs of an opinionated man”

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• I don't care now if I ever win a match in my life again. Whatever I do in my life, wherever I go, I'm going to be always Wimbledon champion.

  Goran Ivanisevic

  Winning, Tennis, Care

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