Champion Quotes - Page 9

• You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings.

  Jack Dempsey

  Gongs, Ready, Rings

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• The culture precedes positive results. It doesn't get tacked on as an afterthought on your way to the victory stand. Champions behave like champions before they're champions: they have a winning standard of performance before they are winners.

  Bill Walsh

  Winning, Nfl, Victory

  Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh (2009). “The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership”, p.48, Penguin

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• The obvious goals were there- State Champion, NCAA Champion, Olympic Champion. To get there I had to set an everyday goal which was to push myself to exhaustion or, in other words, to work so hard in practice that someone would have to carry me off the mat.

  Dan Gable

  Wrestling, Practice, Ncaa

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• Winners expect to win before the contest starts; losers don't. Any individual becomes what he or she thinks about most. If you want to be a champion, then that thought must dominate your life. But most important, winners dwell on the rewards of winning; losers dwell on the penalties of failure.

  Wade Schalles

  Winning, Thinking, Important

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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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• Being a 3-time Intercontinental champion doesn't make you a great wrestler, just like Larry King having 9 wives don't make him a great husband.

  Jerry Lawler

  Kings, Husband, Wife

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• If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart. You can have the greatest coaches in the world, all the opportunities to play, and the greatest equipment, but if you don't have it inside, you're not going to make it. On the other hand, if you don't have any of those luxuries but you have heart and courage and the guts to go out there and grind it out, then you'll make it.

  Chris Evert

  Heart, Opportunity, Hands

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• I suppose as long as novels last, and authors aim at interesting their public, there must always be in the story a virtuous and gallant hero; a wicked monster, his opposite; and a pretty girl, who finds a champion. Bravery and virtue conquer beauty; and vice, after seeming to triumph through a certain number of pages, is sure to be discomfited in the last volume, when justice overtakes him, and honest folks come by their own.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Girl, Hero, Opposites

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers”, p.158

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• America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. Sir Anthony Hopkins portrayal of me was adequate. I do believe that my sideburns were of substantially higher quality, however.

  John Quincy Adams

  Believe, America, Independence

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  We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

  Jimmy Carter

  Peace, War, Memorable

  Jimmy Carter, United States. Congress. House. Committee on House Administration, Gerald R. Ford (1978). “The Presidential campaign, 1976”

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• To be a champion you must act like one, act like a champion.

  Lou Ferrigno

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• Do I feel any pressure as the most decorated Winter Olympian in American history? None at all. The only pressures that I know I face are those of how to pay it forward: How can I continually make a positive impact in people's lives, help others achieve their dreams, create their own Olympic mindset, creating champions within themselves?

  Apolo Ohno

  Dream, Winter, Helping Others

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• Be very strong... be very methodical in your life if you want to be a champion.

  Alberto Juantorena

  Strong, Want, Methodical

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• To be a champion you must live like one.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Motivation

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• Persistence is the soul of a champion.

  Alan Webb

  Persistence, Soul

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• Champions are not generated from the championship. Champion is generated from something they have in them, desires, dreams, and visions.

  Muhammad Ali

  Dream, Vision, Desire

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• The way to know about championship quality is to learn from champions, and that I did; studying them with professional purpose during my time in the ring and from habitual interest afterward.

  Gene Tunney

  Sports, Quality, Way

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• I think that the World Champion should try to defend the quality of play more than anyone else.

  Boris Spassky

  Thinking, Play, Trying

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• It doesn't matter what the income level of your family is, or if English is the first or second language. It makes no difference. The bottom line is that every child can be an academic champion, an academic champion and a superstar in academics.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Children, Differences, Lines

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• The real champions in life are so humble and gracious. They just continue doing what they do without all the posturing. If you've got the real thing, you don't have to flaunt a loud imitation.

  Denis Waitley

  Real, Humble, Imitation

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• I don't have a list, really. I just want to fight guys that are highly respected by the fans, and I want to fight guys who make me nervous. With high risk comes great reward. I want to be a champion that can honestly look people in the eye and say, "I've fought the best guys in the world."

  Jon Jones

  Eye, Fighting, People

  Source: www.legacyfights.net

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• Walk like a champion! Talk like a champion!

  Buju Banton

  Walks

  Song: Champion, Album: 'Til Shiloh, 1995

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• The champions are the team with the most points...if United have more points, it means they have more points, that's all. Nothing else.

  Rafael Benitez

  Team, Mean, United

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• Champions make their own luck.

  Vince Lombardi

  Luck

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• The will to prepare, the guts to risk, and the desire to be the best. These are trademarks of champions.

  Dan Marino

  Risk, Desire, Being The Best

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