Quotes on Champion

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.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

Champions behave like champions before they are champions

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.

When I was a boxer, I wanted to be champion of the world, not the richest man in the world.

Experiencing pain in your muscles and aching, that's what makes the muscle grow. and that divides one from being a champion and one from not being a champion. If you can go through this pain barrier, you may get to be a champion. If You can't go through it, forget it.

Do I feel any pressure as the most decorated Winter Olympian in American history? None at all. The only pressures that I know I face are those of how to pay it forward: How can I continually make a positive impact in people's lives, help others achieve their dreams, create their own Olympic mindset, creating champions within themselves?

I would change all my individual trophies for that trophy of World Cup champion.

These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war.

Faith is the champion of Grace, and Love the nurse; but Humility is the beauty of Grace.

Hopefully, we can build a rivalry and we'll be able to do this a lot. Make a legacy, then retire champions.

Winning isn't always championships.

Sometimes you need to get hit in the head to realize that you're in a fight.

The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can't let yourself be beat because of lack of effort.

Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.

The best evaluation I can make of a player is to look in his eyes and see how scared they are.

The obvious goals were there- State Champion, NCAA Champion, Olympic Champion. To get there I had to set an everyday goal which was to push myself to exhaustion or, in other words, to work so hard in practice that someone would have to carry me off the mat.

Boxing is a sport, but it's also entertainment. I wanted to transcend the sport and be considered just not as a fighter, or a champion, but someone very special.

You see, when you're middle class, you have to live with the fact that history will ignore you. You have to live with the fact that history can never champion your causes and that history will never feel sorry for you. It is the price that is paid for day-to-day comfort and silence. And because of this price, all happinesses are sterile; all sadnesses go unpitied.

A champion is simply someone who did not give up when he wanted to.

You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.