World Champions Quotes

• Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing

  Muhammad Ali

  Athlete, Law Of Attraction, Impossible Things

  Muhammad Ali (2016). “Muhammad Ali Unfiltered: Rare, Iconic, and Officially Authorized Photos of the Greatest”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.

  Muhammad Ali

  Nice, Home, Humble

  Twitter post from Jun 10, 2012

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• Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player

  Max Euwe

  Player, Games, Chess Game

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• In Chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Playing Chess, Chance, Masters

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• It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspiring, Law Of Attraction, Impossible Things

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Jan 28, 2015

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• A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Chess Pieces, Numbers, Boards

  José Raúl Capablanca (1921). “Chess Fundamentals”, Harcourt

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  Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Change, Power

  Muhammad Ali (2016). “Muhammad Ali Unfiltered: Rare, Iconic, and Officially Authorized Photos of the Greatest”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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• I started in this sport at 12 years of age and the goals I set was to be among the best and be the world champion.

  Anderson Silva

  Sports, Years, Goal

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• I'm world champion, baby!

  Jenson Button

  Baby, Champion, World

  "Champion Button looks to the future with Brawn", www.cnn.com. October 19, 2009.

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• I wasn't born a world champion. I just worked really hard to become one.

  Layne Beachley

  Sports, Champion, World

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• When I was 15 years old I felt totally confident I would become a world champion and the greatest bodybuilder in the world. The same was true of show business - I knew that one day I would make more money than anyone else in the industry and I did. For that you need the willingness to work and do everything it takes to make the vision turn into reality.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Reality, Years, Champion

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I feel blessed that I managed to fight 46 fights undefeated, that I was a world champion for 11 years, one of the longest reigning champions of all time and I like to think that I come out looking pretty good.

  Joe Calzaghe

  Motivation, Blessed, Fighting

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• There's a big difference between me and a real, legitimate working hand, or a world-champion rodeo cowboy. I play 'em, and I aspire to be like that, but those guys are tough.

  Luke Perry

  Real, Cowboy, Hands

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The rules are changed now, there's not any way to build a team today. It's just how much money you want to spend. You could be the world champions and somebody else makes a key acquisition or two and you're through.

  Whitey Herzog

  Team, Keys, Two

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• All boxing experts told Helenius is the next world champion! Chisora beat him.

  Vitali Klitschko

  Motivation, Boxing, Champion

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• The loss of my childhood was the price for becoming the youngest world champion in history. When you have to fight every day from a young age, your soul can be contaminated. I lost my childhood. I never really had it. Today I have to be careful not to become cruel, because I became a soldier too early.

  Garry Kasparov

  Loss, Fighting, Childhood

  "The Tsar's Opponent" by David Remnick, www.newyorker.com. October 1, 2007.

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• The Olympics is a special event and winning is very important. For me as a world record holder and world champion, the only thing I am missing is the Olympic gold medal and that is what I want to achieve in my career.

  David Rudisha

  Winning, Careers, Missing

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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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• Although I have to say, it's become a lot harder for me since I won the world series because everyone wants to beat me. For example, bluffing is really tough now, because there's always someone who calls me on the off-chance that they'll then be able to say they read a world champion's bluff.

  Chris Moneymaker

  Champion, Want, Able

  Interview with Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2005.

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• In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Father, Champion, World

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We know that the French are very different from the Americans in their satisfaction with life. They're much less satisfied. Americans are pretty high up there, while the French are quite low - the world champions in life satisfaction are actually the Danes.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Champion, Different, World

  "Are You Happy Now?". Interview with Jennifer Robison, www.gallup.com. February 10, 2005.

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• I wanted to be a world champion.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Champion, World, Wanted

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• All these nice people saying I'm going to be world champion won't make me any faster, you have to believe it yourself.

  Sebastian Vettel

  Nice, Believe, People

  "Vettel: 'They called me Baby Schumi. I didn't like it but I understood'" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2010.

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• I don't play them a lot of minutes. I have great starters. I have All-Stars, world champions.

  Bill Laimbeer

  Basketball, Stars, Play

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• The great World Champions Morphy, Steinitz, and Lasker were past masters in the art of Pawn play; they had no superiors in their handling of endgames. The present World Champion has not the strength of the other three as an endgame player, and is therefore inferior to them.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Art, Past, Player

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