My most difficult opponent is myself. When I am playing I often involuntarily make a world champion out of a candidate master.
What could be better than walking down any street in any city and knowing you're the heavyweight champion of the world?
Paul Rudnick is a champion of truth (and love and great wicked humor) whom we ignore at our peril.
By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion
The best fight I ever saw without question, I was very fortunate to be a judge in the fight, between the then current WBC 122 pound champion Wilfredo Gomez, and the reigning WBC 118 pound champion Lupe Pintor. It was absolutely beyond belief.
We knew that you don't get to be world champions without a struggle.
Everything happened very quickly in my career. It was a very great honor for me to break Jim Clarks record (as youngest champion).
When the confrontation begins, strike like champions who do not want to go back to this world. Shout, "Allahu Akbar," because this strikes fear in the hearts of the non-believers.
There are no half-hearted champions.
As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions.
The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches.
America champions the underdog. We champion the underdog until he's not the underdog anymore, and he annoys us.
I've been trained by a two-time world champion kickboxer, who's local to where I come from, and who is really just there to keep me fit and healthy while I'm shooting.
I am a champion who makes an impact.
Be a pro. • Act like a champion. • Respond to adversity; don’t react. • Be on time. Being late means either it’s not important to you or you can’t be relied upon. • Execute. Do what you’re supposed to do when you’re supposed to do it. Not almost. All the way. Not most of the time. All of the time. • Take ownership. Whatever it takes. No excuses, no explanations.
I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal.
But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and say so.
Tyson is a lot better than I thought, a lot better. People can talk about Spinks all they want. . . Tyson is the true champion.
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.
Winners are born, Champions are made.