Champion Quotes - Page 16

While journalists cannot right every wrong, champion every cause or fix every problem, they can - through the written word - lift someone's burden for a day, make some elderly woman on a bus smile or let them know they are noticed by someone.

Actually, Magic and the Lakers beat Philadelphia for Magic's first NBA Championship.

I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.

Winning isn't always championships.

If she gets the jitters now, then she isn't the great champion that she is.

I do not need to play in the Champions League to be happy

I know that a good many champions have entertained the thought that the more they discourage youngsters, the longer they would reign. However, this theory never impressed me, and I always made it a point to give youths the benefit of my experience in bicycle racing.

This season is my most special and most cherished. All my focus is on getting that championship back here.

The mission I set out on in the beginning - to become heavyweight champion of the world, undisputed, lineal champion - you could say that mission is complete.

People know I was the last true champion.

I can see Sue and I leading this team to many more championships...We're going to take this and learn from it. We worked too hard for this.

When I entered the sport of boxing I wanted to be one of the best and be undefeated. And I was able to attain that, not just one championship title, but four.

Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.

Sometimes I wonder about the Creator of the Universe.

I want to be a champion.

You will never be entirely comfortable. This is the truth behind the champion - he is always fighting something. To do otherwise is to settle.

They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.

Michael Schumacher deserved the driver's championship. To be honest, I didn't want to keep my record as the last Ferrari world champion; it's never done me any good!

As you get older, every chance to win a championship is more crucial, because you are going to have less and less of them.

Playing chess is more athletic than artistic. Champions are more concerned with victory than beauty: it's war with occasionally graceful kicks.

Shave a gorilla and it would be almost impossible, at twenty paces, to distinguish him from a heavyweight champion of the world. Skin a chimpanzee, and it would take an autopsy to prove he was not a theologian.

I lost three times in my career. Losing to Holmes I could deal with, because I lost to a true champion.

I believe there is a champion in all of us.

If the Olympic champion doesn't know how to jump quad, I don't know. Now it's not figure skating. Now it's dancing.

The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages.