Top 1200 World Champion Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Ali and I have become friends over the years. I was on a plane with him one time when he was the champion.

When people are tipsy, they're really encouraged and they wanna prove they can do something to the Heavyweight champion.

The national treasure, Nick Aldis calls himself the real world's champion. Back earlier this year in the Crockett Cup, I gave Nick Aldis the fight of his life. Not just of his career, but of his life. And even though I came up short in that match, I know deep down in my heart, what is left of my broken heart, that I can breat you, Nick.

As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.

I was the X-Division champion and competing against guys mostly my size, and I dominated them.

I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall

The virtuous mind that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion, Conscience.

One minute I'm robbing a dope house. Next minute I'm the youngest heavyweight champion of the world. I'm only 20, 19, with a lot of money. Who am I? What am I? I don't even know who I am. I'm just a dumb child who's being abused and robbed by lawyers. I'm just a dumb pugnacious fool. I'm just a fool who thinks he's someone. Then you tell me I should be responsible.

It's not so much what you accomplish in life that really matters, but what you overcome that proves who you are, what you are, and whether you are a champion.

Becoming a champion is not an easy process... It is done by focusing on what it takes to get there and not on getting there.

He's been doing this a long time. Hats off to a champion, Carlos Condit.

Things have been invented because of alcohol. Like the taser, okay? Yeah! The morning after pill, okay? The reach-around. Judge Judy. What has pot given the world? Hackey sack? YEAH! Hilarious ring tones? OH GAH! Ultimate Frisbee Championships? It sucks to be a champion at a sport that can't get you laid. It's an unneeded skill like, I dunno, being the best banjo player. Or a squirter.

A champion hates to lose even more than she loves to win.

The Labour party is the greatest champion of equality and opportunity this country has even known.

I've let go of the dream of becoming a UFC champion that I held in my heart my whole life.

Set the goal and work all days for it, until you achieve, I want to be a champion, the best!

Recently I saw Kasparov and he looked to me as still young and potent champion.

I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.

A true champion works hard and never loses sight of her dreams.

No great player blundered oftener than I done. I was champion of the world for twenty-eight years because I was twenty years ahead of my time. I played on certain principles, which neither Zukertort nor anyone else of his time understood. The players of today, such as Lasker, Tarrasch, Pillsbury, Schlechter and others have adopted my principles, and as is only natural, they have improved upon what I began, and that is the whole secret of the matter.

I want to be the true champion of the people, and I take a lot of pride in having that role.

What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win.

I go to bed dreaming, thinking that I want to be the best in the octagon and be a champion.

Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion.

There is an awful lot you can accomplish by being a vocal champion for a certain cause.

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

If I want to win a title I have to beat the champion myself, I don't have teammates inside the ring.

After crippling the big red retard tonight, over a short period of time I have run the gambit of the who's who in the World Wrestling Federation! Crippling Stone Cold Steve Austin, destroying the unstoppable Mankind; putting him out for three months and beating him for the WWF championship. And then, defending it only a week later and dominating...and, oh yeah, taking to school that little punk, your champion, The Rock!

I hope the day will never come when the American nation will be the champion of the status quo. Once that happens, we shall have forfeited, and rightly forfeited, the support of the unsatisfied, of those who are the victims of inevitable imperfections, of those who, young in years or spirit, believe that they can make a better world and of those who dream dreams and want to make their dreams to come true.

Trump bankrupted six companies but succeeded on the biggest of stages. He is the champion of failures.

If somebody tells you that after being champion you're not going to miss the attention, he's lying to you.

But who would force the soul tilts with a straw Against a champion cased in adamant

I wanted so badly to walk into WrestleMania weekend as the NXT champion and headline TakeOver.

I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them.

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

Serena Williams is the ultimate champion. She knows what it takes to get to the top.

Training to become champion is the toughest thing. The fight itself is just a test.

I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them

The thing that I champion is sustainability. My terror is that suddenly we see it as a luxury, not an essential. That's a danger.

I get outside a lot. I am a huge champion of physical activity. It's so important.

When I was five years in, I was the UFC heavyweight champion, and all I could think about was fighting.

My dad had his dream of being a champion boxing trainer. He accomplished that.

There's a lot of ways to win a belt, but taking it from a champion is very important to me.

I have one thing to say to those non-believers. Don't ever underestimate the heart of a champion.

There's people that tried to celebrate when I lost that got nothing to do with it. That's not the sign of a champion.

Shinsuke, as champion, wasn't even doing anything and wasn't defending it and was hiding all the time.

When I chose athletics, I knew I wanted to be Olympic champion, and now I have done it in London.

Nobody is born as a champion. You have to earn it through hard work. Get started!

USC is the National Champion like Al Gore is the President of the United States.

One thing I see in a lot of coaches is they try to live through the fighter. You can't live through the fighter. You gotta allow the fighter to be the fighter, and do what he do, and you just try to guide him. Why should I have to live through a fighter, when I went from eating out of a trashcan to being eight-time world champion? I stood in the limelight and did what I had to do as a fighter. I've been where that fighter is trying to go.

This Martina Navratilova is a real champion, but with the proper training, I can make miracles happen.

To those people doubting Serena Williams, writing her off - do not do that to a champion.

Only one champion stands at the end of the year, so just making the playoffs isn't enough.

To be a champion, you have to learn to handle stress and pressure. But if you've prepared mentally and physically, you don't have to worry.

If you're the Olympic champion then they have to wait four more years to get you again.

I love to cook. I'm a sailor. And I was the eighth-grade ping-pong champion.

The film festival is in a town in Arkansas, a quintessentially American town with a little town square. It's to champion women and diversity in all media, so TV, movies, eventually, digital, whatever you get into. That's the goal. We're using the same philosophy as my institute, which is to make it research-based and really try to work directly with filmmakers and content creators and move the needle. It's the only film festival in the world where the prizes are guaranteed distribution.

Being the first flyweight champion would be history. I'd be immortal. No matter what I do, that's always there.

I'm definitely happy that I get to experience being a defending champion. That's quite special.

I never fought for money. I had a good career and legacy as featherweight champion.