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Denis Waitley Author, Motivational Speaker
Champion

"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."

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Diana Lopez Artist
Champion

"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."

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Chinua Achebe Novelist, Poet
Champion

"Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit -- in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever."

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Christopher Hitchens Author, Critic, Journalist
Champion

"The best blended Scotch in the history of the world - which was also the favourite drink of the Iraqi Baath Party, as it still is of the Palestinian Authority and the Libyan dictatorship and large branches of the Saudi Arabian royal family - is Johnnie Walker Black. Breakfast of champions, accept no substitute."

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Kanye West Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
Champion

"Went from most hated to the Champion God Flow, I guess that's a feelin' only me and LeBron know."

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Larry Holmes Boxer
Champion

"I achieved something once again, I think we all want to put a mark on life. I dream, and my dreams always come true. I dreamed I was the heavyweight champion of the world. I am the heavyweight champion of the world."

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Denis Waitley Author, Motivational Speaker
Champion

"Champions never brag, never shout, never have to go to extremes to build themselves up for others or put others down. They let their actions, deeds, and results speak for them."

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Anton Chekhov Playwright, Short Story Writer
Champion

"It is the writer's business not to accuse and not to prosecute, but to champion the guilty, once they are condemned and suffer punishment."

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Arnold Schwarzenegger Actor, Bodybuilder, Politician
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."

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Arnold Schwarzenegger Actor, Bodybuilder, Politician
Champion

"When I was 15 years old I felt totally confident I would become a world champion and the greatest bodybuilder in the world. The same was true of show business - I knew that one day I would make more money than anyone else in the industry and I did. For that you need the willingness to work and do everything it takes to make the vision turn into reality."

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Serena Williams Tennis Player
Champion

"Venus told me the other day that champions don't get nervous in tight situations. That really helped me a lot. I decided I shouldn't get nervous and just do the best I can."

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Joseph Campbell Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer
Champion

"A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo."

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