Quotes on Champion

Champions get what they want because they know what they want. They have a vision that keeps them motivated and efficiently on track. They see it, feel it, and experience it in their minds and hearts. What is success for you? You won't get there without knowing what it feels and looks like.

When they [court announcers] say, 'This is the world No. 2,' it just doesn't sound right to me because either I'm No. 1 or I'm a grand slam champion. I'm not world No. 2. I just don't like the ring of it when I'm introduced on court because I've been up there for so, so long.

There are many stars and a few super-stars in sport. There are champions who bag a coronet now and then, and there are others who dominate some game year after year. In other words there are Bobby Jones and Helen Wills.

The great World Champions Morphy, Steinitz, and Lasker were past masters in the art of Pawn play; they had no superiors in their handling of endgames. The present World Champion has not the strength of the other three as an endgame player, and is therefore inferior to them.

Sultan Khan had become champion of India at Indian chess and he learned the rules of our form of chess at a later date. The fact that even under such conditions he succeeded in becoming champion reveals a genius for chess which is nothing short of extraordinary.

In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.

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

What could be better than walking down any street in any city and knowing you're the heavyweight champion of the world?

There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It's up to you to decide what to do with them.

You become a champion as a team. I understand that. I know the history of the game.

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.

Champions are champions not because they do anything extraordinary but because they do the ordinary things better than anyone else.

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.

To win takes a complete commitment of mind and body. When you can't make that commitment, they don't call you a champion anymore.

Heart in champions has to do with the depth of our motivation and how well your mind and body react to pressure - that is, being able to do what you do best under maximum pain and stress.

A champion hates to lose even more than she loves to win.

From nobody to upstart. From upstart to contender. From contender to winner. From winner to champion. From champion to Dynasty.

Every time you compete, try harder to improve on your last performance. Give nothing short of your very best effort.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

the impossibility of being human all too human this breathing in and out out and in these punks these cowards these champions these mad dogs of glory moving this little bit of light toward us impossibly.