Champion quotes
569 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity. The modern champions of communism have selected this as the time, and ladies and gentlemen, the chips are down - they are truly down."
"Champions have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill."
"To become a champion requires a good mental attitude toward preparation. You have to accept the most tedious task with pleasure."
"Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense."
"The majority of those who are loosely identified by the term 'liberals' are afraid to let themselves discover that what they advocate is statism. They want to keep all the advantages and effects of capitalism, while destroying the cause, and they want to establish statism without its necessary effects. They do not want to know or to admit that they are the champions of dictatorship and slavery."
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"One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian."
"The Breakfast of Champions isn't cereal, it's the competition!"
"Any man can do what he has to do. But doing it like you love it? That is what takes it to a whole different level. A champion does it like he loves it, even when he doesn't."
"It's wonderful for me to see what 'We Will Rock You' has done. 'We Will Rock You' and 'We Are the Champions' have kind of transcended the normal framework of where music is listened to and appreciated - they've become part of public life, which I feel wonderful about."
"I know I'm a champion. I know I've got it in me, they can't stop me."
"Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion."
"Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege."
"Sometimes you need to get hit in the head to realize that you're in a fight."
"I want to wake up every day and do whatever comes in my mind, and not feel pressure or obligations to do anything else in my life."
"Jay Lethal doing that Black Machsimo character, as good as that was, it was fantastic and so entertaining. But now Jay Lethal has turned himself into this very formidable, dominant world champion, who is having some of the best matches in the entire world. So it's really cool."
"When I was young, I had to learn the fundamentals of basketball. You can have all the physical ability in the world, but you still have to know the fundamentals."
"Courage is virtue which champions the cause of right."
"My ability to get through my day greatly depends on the relationship that I have with other women...We have to be able to champion other women. We have to root for each other's successes and not delight in one another's failures."
"Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final."
"God is the Champion at bringing people from a place of destruction to a place of total victory. As they reach that place of victory they become trophies of his grace. and they are set on the display as a fragrant reminder of God's goodness."
"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."
"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."
"But who would force the soul tilts with a straw Against a champion cased in adamant"
"Enjoy every minute of life. Never second-guess life."
"A champion pays an extra price to be better than anyone else."
