Champion Quotes - Page 8

• I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.

  Billie Jean King

  Success, Motivational Sports, Women

  "The New Edge in Sports Performance and Results" by Howard Falco, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 22, 2015.

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• Believing in myself and not to be afraid of taking any risks. I have to be better than the average person to succeed. That’s why I chose bodybuilding. If I became a world champion, if I could win admiration from my peers, I could do anything.

  Lou Ferrigno

  Believe, Bodybuilding, Winning

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• I thought you were supposed to be the champion of your people,' I said. I live because I need to do that. For anyone who is left.' Don't you see? No one will be left. Protect them now or there will be no one to protect!' This is a battle that goes on and on. It never ends. You're too young to understand. No! You're too much of a coward to fight.' I was sick of lies and secrets and of battles so old we had to erase who we were to fight back. And still we lost. Still we were tied to posts.

  Alice Hoffman

  Lying, Fighting, People

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  Those who stay will be champions

  Bo Schembechler

  Nfl

  Bo Schembechler, Dan Ewald (1998). “Michigan Memories: Inside Bo Schembechler's Football Scrapbook”, Sleeping Bear Software

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• I don't need to be fixed anymore. That job's already been done. I love you, Annabelle. -Heath Champion-

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Jobs, Love You, Needs

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• Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way.

  Aberjhani

  Funny Valentines Day, Mistake, People

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.16, Lulu.com

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• You must realize one thing. In every little village in the world there are great potential champions who only need motivation, development and good exercise evaluation.

  Arthur Lydiard

  Running, Motivation, Exercise

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• Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men's reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Love, Hero, Reality

  1969 'Those Daring Young Men In Their Flying Machines Ain't What They Used To Be!', in Pageant, Sep.

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• Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what we have done to prepare for competition.

  John Smith

  Success, Sports, Regret

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• Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Evil, Enemy

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• Do you think a champion is made out of thin air? It’s through the hardships you endure that you’ll gain real strength.

  Gail Tsukiyama

  Real, Thinking, Air

  Gail Tsukiyama (2007). “The Street of a Thousand Blossoms”, p.178, Macmillan

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• I am not the champion of lost causes, but the champion of causes not yet won.

  Norman Thomas

  Causes, Lost, Lost Cause

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• He settled his hat back into position. She was a rookie in her first big game, and he’d never let her see how close she’d come to unseating a champion

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Games, Rookies, Firsts

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• Each and every one of us should stop playing small and license ourselves to become one of the giants of the new century. We will need champions by the truckload.

  Van Jones

  Climate, Giants, Needs

  Van Jones (2008). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, HarperOne

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• The sun rises every day. What is to love? Lock the sun in a box. Force the sun to overcome adversity in order to rise. Then we will cheer! I will often admire beautiful sunrise, but I will never consider the sun a champion for having risen.

  Garth Stein

  Beautiful, Cheer, Adversity

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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• Sports is about balls and about heart and you don't find too many champions in any sport in the world without heart or balls. He might have them, but against Nadal they shrink to a very small size and it's not once, it's every time.

  Mats Wilander

  Sports, Heart, Nadal

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• The tennis challenger starts strong but soon loses confidence in his playing. The champion racks up the games. But in the final set, when the challenger has nothing left to lose, he becomes relaxed again, insouciant, daring. Suddenly he's playing like the devil and the champion must work hard to get those last points.

  Yann Martel

  Strong, Hard Work, Games

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.149, Vintage Canada

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• It makes one realize that the physicality if our world is a boundary to us only if our will is weak; a true champion can accomplish things that a normal person would think impossible.

  Garth Stein

  Thinking, Our World, Normal

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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• The eyes of a young girl can tell everything. And I always look in their eyes. There I can see if I will have a champion.

  Neshka Robeva

  Girl, Eye, Gymnastics

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• We like to imagine that in history, truth will prevail through sheer persuasive power. Sadly, this is not the case. Truth needs champions.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Truth Will Prevail, Needs, Libertarian

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• Oh my God, you're serious. Honey, I am a six time Women's Champion, if you get into the ring with me it will not be for a Lingerie Pillow Fight, it will not be to shoot t-shirts. If you get into the ring with me I will end your career just like that. Are you sure that's what you want?

  Trish Stratus

  Fighting, Wwe, Careers

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• Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.

  Lester Sumrall

  Motivational, Risk, Hardship

  Lester Sumrall (1995). “Making of a Champion”, Whitaker Distribution

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• I felt myself getting teary eyed. And I was like, 'Wait a second. You can't do that. You're the WWE Champion.' Then I went out of the ring, Alex Riley was there and we both celebrated together. Feeling his excitement made me feel even more excited.

  The Miz

  Wwe, Waiting, Feelings

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• The man who follows is forever at your back, something to consider Champion.

  Crixus

  Men, Forever, He Man

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• History serves as a model not only of who and what we are to be, we learn what to champion and what to avoid.

  Steve Berry

  Models

  "Why Preserving History Matters" by Steve Berry, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2012.

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