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Champion Quotes - Page 18

But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.134, Cosimo, Inc.

I smoked my first cigar in 1991, when we won the championship. Up to that point, I had never smoked a cigar, never smoked anything.

"One-on-One with Michael Jordan". Interview with Marvin R. Shanken, www.cigaraficionado.com. July/August 2005.