Top 1200 World Champion Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

For the birth of one champion, there are many young boxers behind them who had setbacks. In terms of that, I think boxing is very dramatic.

You are not in the world...the world is in you," what did he mean? [That is, you are not in the world," that is, there is no "you" that is real or in any world. "The world is in you" means that the world is in your "mind" and is nothing more than a figment of your programming-and-conditioning-induced imaginings.]

What people forget is that no one pays you to go and be a champion for democracy. A girl's got to make rent. I didn't have a job for two years.

What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.

It is a burden because I get asked about my father all the time. I just need to accept that he was a champion before me.

Anybody can quit. Only a real champion and a person of character and strength can keep going and refuse to give up.

I'm a Mancunian born and bred and I feel I'm no different to the man in the crowd and it's nice to reward them. I want to become a great champion.

I am a believer in the rights of the unborn and the goodness of every life, and I have promised that, as governor, I will champion those values.

Classic English liberalism of the sort that 'The Economist' was founded to champion and still espouses is about open societies and free markets.

I am very glad not only to complete the grand slam, but to become Olympic champion alone makes me happy.

If you're going to play a champion athlete, people expect you to look a certain way, and you also have to have the stamina to be able to continue to perform.

I became the first ever Euro-continental champion in WWF history. Well, besides D-Lo Brown, but he doesn't count.

Being a champion and staying that way is the most difficult thing to deal with. Everyone sees you as a target. They want to bring you down.

I still know I'm a true champion, I'm a great fighter, some of the best fighters of all time have a loss, or more than a couple of losses.

Retiring as the champion and being the only athlete to ever do that, I think goals like that are set in the mind. I want to make that happen.

You'd be hard pressed to find a bigger champion of high-speed rail than me when the bond went to voters. I believed in it.

We champion freedom - but Brexit will mean the next generation is less free to live, work and love across Europe.

One and done, Home Run Derby champion. It was a cool experience. I enjoyed it all, but I don't think I really need to go out there and do it again.

If you finish the season as a champion and, on top of that, break some records - we would make history as a club and also us as football players.

I love all the attention I've got since becoming Olympic champion and being asked to go to different events, but boxing is what I do.

Yes, I have done many roles with negative shades, such as 'Awara Paagal Deewana' and 'Champion.' But in 'Ashoka,' I played a positive character.

Me, Shinsuke Nakamura, and Lyoto Machida, former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion, all shared a two-bedroom apartment together.

Every champion golfer comes to Augusta imbued with a towering source of inspiration. It's a solitary journey, but it's one that no player... makes alone.

At some point of my life I've always fantasized that I'd be a boxing champion of the 160-pound division. Or a chef, I love cooking.

Once you're a NASCAR champion, you're kind of in another elite division instead of just being a competitor or a race winner.

[Tom Cotton] has been an absolute champion of the idea of getting rid of Obamacare, scrapping the Affordable Care Act.

Too many people want the appearance of winning rather than the practices and hard work that create a true champion.

Being a champion opens lots of doors—I'd like to get a real estate license, maybe sell insurance.

Superman! Champion of the oppressed. The physical marvel who had sworn to devote his existence to helping those in need.

I'm a big champion of talking about Britain's colonial past but the important thing is not hiding it away and giving a true account of history.

Brodie Lee would be a match I'd love to have. When he was the TNT Champion, I was sort of hoping to work my way up to that level.

Who was born first, you or the world? As long as you give first place to the world, you are bound by it; once you realize, beyond all trace of doubt, that the world is in you and not you in the world, you are out of it. Of course your body remains in the world and of the world, but you are not deluded by it.

One can always learn from others. The Champion's Mind holds a wealth of insight as to how you can become a winner in your everyday life.

Who am I just to give up on track? This is something I've dreamed about since I was 9 years old, being an Olympic champion.

I like the thought of gaining revenge over WBC light-heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson, who beat me in 2013.

I wanted to be clear that Republicans will continue to be a champion for expanding economic freedom to trade. It is at the heart of our free-enterprise system.

Jens Pulver was a former UFC champion. He's a guy who I followed and looked up to. It was my first big fight in the Sacramento arena.

I want our party to step up its efforts to reflect and champion the concerns of everybody who has reached the second half of their lives.

1988 Olympic Champion Brian Boitano was famous for doing a Lutz with one arm over his head. And I wanted to build on that.

But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and say so.

When you look at me see the father, the awesome dad, the author, film director, business owner, champion, friend, Hufflepuff beast.

What I did at the start of each season, regardless if I was coming back as the champion, was run indoors and take forward steps from the first race.

Not many people get to say, 'I'm a WWE champion.' It's pretty incredible just to hear those words coming out of my mouth.

It was priceless. Being the UFC champion and having my kids in the Octagon, my wife, them holding the belt. That was like a movie.

I volunteered to join Mr. Trump's campaign because he is a champion of working families, not Washington-Wall Street elites.

To become a champion requires a good mental attitude toward preparation. You have to accept the most tedious task with pleasure.

Craig Sager's amazing attitude was truly inspirational. He was a champion during his battle, fighting every day with grace and humor.

James Jones being a player, a champion, one thing that you knew about him that was really good was his work ethic.

India's fortune will depend on how many runs the little champion scores. There is no doubt Tendulkar is the real thing.

You have to bear in mind that Mr. Autry's favorite horse was named Champion. He ain't ever had one called Runner Up.

Yes, I am the Olympic champion, but this is not the end of it. I want all the gold that there is out there, everything that exists in figure skating. In all events, in all competitions.

Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.

Growing up, at high school, we all used to wear Champion garments, which, in America, are standard-issue gym uniforms.

I have always wanted to be European champion, because it is a fantastic title and so many great boxers have held the belt over the years.

Every champion has discovered that pain is seasonal. It will pass... Don't be discouraged by it. A New Day is about to dawn in your life!

A lot of people say things because I wasn't born here, but in my heart, I know that I am a true Puerto Rican champion.

To win like that, in Scottish kit, in the U.K., beating the Olympic champion, hearing Scotland the Brave on the podium, I was very emotional.

When she (my mother) passed away, I kind of understood the commitment that she made to make sure that I could stay in skating. And I wanted to live up to whatever I could. Not so much win everything, but just to be the best that I could possibly be, to honor her memory and everything she went through to make sure that I was given the opportunities to be the best that I can be. Not to be a world champion or an Olympic gold medalist, but to be the best that I could be. And that was the most important thing that ever happened in my career.

They should just put 'two' beside everybody's name, you know? Because there's only No. 1 guy out there, and that's the champion.

As far as being the longest-reigning X Division champion, it's a pretty remarkable achievement, due to all the men who have held it over the years.