Champion Quotes - Page 8

If you can look in your mother's eyes and she's proud of you, then you're a champion.

By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion

The lesson to learn is to pay attention for 90 minutes because in front of you are great champions.

Recently I saw Kasparov and he looked to me as still young and potent champion.

But who would force the soul tilts with a straw Against a champion cased in adamant

Winners are born, Champions are made.

Enjoy every minute of life. Never second-guess life.

Champions know that success is inevitable, that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it.

The truth is that I don't have a favourite goal. I remember important goals more than I do favourite goals, like goals in the Champions League where I had the opportunity to have scored in both finals I have played in. Finals in the World Cup or Copa del Rey are the ones that have stayed with me for longer or that I remember more.

But the fact is that I wouldn't have won even a single Tour de France without the lesson of illness. What it teaches is this: pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

I remember mentioning to friends back in 1938 that the world chess champion would be beaten by a computer in 50 years time. Today we know computers are not far from this goal.

Joe Frazier's life didn't start with Ali. I was a Golden Gloves champ. Gold medal in Tokyo '64. Heavyweight champion of the world long before I fought Ali in the Garden.

When you have a World Champion in your smartphone, the myth of the superior brainpower of human chess champions has lost its power.

I don't think we'll shoot 76 percent in a half ever again. That's crazy.

I don't care now if I ever win a match in my life again. Whatever I do in my life, wherever I go, I'm going to be always Wimbledon champion.

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

What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.

I've been training super hard at the Lopez Taekwondo Academy in Houston, which belongs to my brother Jean. For me, I think confidence is the biggest thing; it's all mental. I train with the best of the best, including my brother Steven, a five-time world champion who won Olympic gold medals.

The real champions in life are so humble and gracious. They just continue doing what they do without all the posturing. If you've got the real thing, you don't have to flaunt a loud imitation.

A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.

If you want to be a champion you cannot have any kind of an outside negative force coming in to deflect you.

That's the most terrible mistake you can make: to relax. It's difficult to become a champion, but it's more difficult to maintain it for many years because you're getting too comfortable.

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

I happen to be a three-time former WWF Champion and a hardcore legend, and I never had my own dressing room.

If the WWF was about talent, Taka Michinoku would have been WWF champion