Champion Quotes

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.

I never gave up, even when people told me I'd never make it; Never underestimate the heart of a champion.

A true champion is not judged by how much he or she is admired, but by how well they can stand at the face of adversity.

Ten thousand years as Intercontinental Champion, Oooooh yeeeah!

Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity. The modern champions of communism have selected this as the time, and ladies and gentlemen, the chips are down - they are truly down.

A successful life is expensive; it will cost you something to become a champion.

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.

Champions are champions not because they do anything extraordinary but because they do the ordinary things better than anyone else.

Hard days are the best because that's when champions are made.

When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you.

There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.

A champion doesn't become a champion in the ring, he's merely recognized in the ring. His “becoming” happens during his daily routine.

I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.

Champions aren't made in the ring, they are merely recognized there. What you cheat on in the early light of morning will show up in the ring under the bright lights.

I am an unstoppable killing machine. I am the greatest champion that ever walked the face of this planet.

Those who stay will be champions

Champions behave like champions before they are champions

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

Champions have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.

Be a pro. • Act like a champion. • Respond to adversity; don’t react. • Be on time. Being late means either it’s not important to you or you can’t be relied upon. • Execute. Do what you’re supposed to do when you’re supposed to do it. Not almost. All the way. Not most of the time. All of the time. • Take ownership. Whatever it takes. No excuses, no explanations.

There is only a half step difference between the champions and those who finish on the bottom. And much of that half step is mental.

A champion is defined by the adversity he overcomes

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

Nobody knows that they're going to be Champions - you have to work to get there.

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

I'm not thinking about coaching, I'm thinking about heading to Washington, watching the world champions and my brother coach

Everybody is looking for instant success, but it doesn't work that way. You build a successful life one day at a time.

We're going to be World Champions...forever.

The one-time cotton picker was now the heavyweight champion of the world.

Actually to be a champion your goal is to be a little bit better each day, making sure that every day is an opportunity to be at your best.

Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.

Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.

We've got goals we're trying to reach, and "Overtime" is the only way to do it, and "Champion" is the only thing we're tryin' to be.

Sultan Khan had become champion of India at Indian chess and he learned the rules of our form of chess at a later date. The fact that even under such conditions he succeeded in becoming champion reveals a genius for chess which is nothing short of extraordinary.

If it was easy everyone would be a champion, so you've got to decide if you're that person that's going to be a champion.

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

There's a champion in all of us, it's how you choose to find it.

Take the feeling of hunger out of your gut, and you're no longer a champion

Courage means being afraid to do something, but still doing it.

The majority of those who are loosely identified by the term 'liberals' are afraid to let themselves discover that what they advocate is statism. They want to keep all the advantages and effects of capitalism, while destroying the cause, and they want to establish statism without its necessary effects. They do not want to know or to admit that they are the champions of dictatorship and slavery.

History provides many examples of democracy crushed by people who said to be the champion of "genuine democracy" and "the people's real meaning". The realization about this may lead us to a defence position that conceals that democracy is an extraordinarily demanding way of rule. It must constantly find new ways to revitalize, to reach out to people and make them active. Dictatorships offers a machinery of obedience, closed and externally well-oiled. Democracy is based on fairness, openness and pulsating life. Therefore it must constantly be won again.

I never go looking for a sucker. I look for a Champion and make a sucker of of him.

Once a champion, always a champion.

What is a champion but a guy that didn't quit?... Life is a continuous experience. You only fail by not learning.

I'd like to be remembered as someone who was a champion of peace and human rights.

Joe Louis is the greatest heavyweight champion of all time. Rocky Marciano is second only to Louis. Where do I rate Ali? Somewhere below me. I beat him, and if I could beat him, no doubt Joe Louis and Rocky Marciano could have beaten him.

In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I do and other players do about opening theory. So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn't do well. They'd get bad openings.

A true champion can adapt to anything.

If you want to be a Champion, you've got to feel like one, you've got to act like one, you've got to look like one.

There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It's up to you to decide what to do with them.