Champion Quotes - Page 23

There are three types of golf: golf, tournament golf and Major championship golf.

The true hero is flawed. The true test of a champion is not whether he can triumph, but whether he can overcome obstacles - preferably of his own making - in order to triumph.

This is a fantastic fight for the championship. I'm really confident and believe we can do it.

Everything happened very quickly in my career. It was a very great honor for me to break Jim Clarks record (as youngest champion).

By no means because I am a World Champion will I ever stop learning and that’s the biggest thing that’s difficult for someone to see.

It was an honor to coach him. He should be proud of what he did this year.

It was our third game in five days. It seemed to have an impact on us.

You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.

Now that I'm losing some, I can see how tough I was -- the killer instinct, the single-mindedness, playing like a machine. Boy, that's what made me a champion.

17 seconds from Game 7, or from Championship number 6,Jordan, open, Chicago with the lead. Time out Utah, 5.2 seconds left, Michael Jordan running on fumes with 45 points.

Girls rival each other. Women revive each other. Girls empale each other. Women empower each other. Girls compare each other. Women champion each other.

Carlsen came with a line that was not very theoretical, trying to challenge the World Champion to play chess. [...] But Anand proved that even this obscure line is something he has studied before, and it was Carlsen that was set back.

I'm playing right now a role, and the role is called the 'Heavyweight Champion of the World.' And it takes all of the time. And I love this role, and it takes a lot of attention for me for the sport, and I just don't want to lose the title, so that's why I have to stay focused and not become an actor.

In Franklin Roosevelt there died the greatest American friend we have ever known - and the greatest champion of freedom who has ever brought help and comfort from the New World to the Old.

Give me about 10 years, I'm going to run for President. If I can squeeze in an NBA championship before that, I'll do it.

Being the undisputed world champion is a relief. We instituted a unified chess title, I am the absolute world champion.

The next thing you're going to tell me is Daniel Bryan is the United States Champion.

[He] saw communism for the sham that it was--a bunch of brutes who seized power in the name of the people, only to repress the very people they claimed to champion.

I want to win championships.

Environmentalists and clean energy champions should stop telling people that we are working for "sustainability," which nobody understands.

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

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

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.

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 should always train in order to be at a higher level. Other fighters are training hard as well. I have to be a step or more ahead.

I think that major championships are as much about attitude as they are anything else.