A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
There are 7 billion people in the world, but there's only one heavyweight champion of the world, and that's me.
My personal story has always been about perseverance and always getting up when I fall. Maybe I'm not Olympic champion, but I can teach the world about that.
There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.
I love being world champion.
What happened in the past is just that, the past. Champion or not.
I'm trying to champion the naturalist's worldview and show it's not as heathen as most religious people would make it out to be.
Growing up, all I did was write about the fact that I'm from where I'm from. I was a big champion of where I was from and Wisconsin in general, and the Midwest.
I didn't become world champion to fight Jimmy Kelly.
I always needle a bit when people say I'm a champion of the Poles, because I've always had a very multinational view of Poland.
Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.
Goal number one is to be the welterweight champion of the world, and I'm away from my family way too often. This is a sport where we can make cash now.
There are elements to my faith which are echoed very closely in the scripts that come through. I read certain moments, and I'm able to say, 'Yes, I recognize that. I champion that. I ally myself to that idea.' Then there are times where I don't. My feeling is, at this stage in my life, that it will be an ongoing struggle.
Recently I saw Kasparov and he looked to me as still young and potent champion.
Cleveland, we've got a champion, baby!
I want to thank America. You opened your heart so I could enter. Thank you everybody who lives in the United States, who saw me grow into becoming a world champion.
My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We're from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers.
My mom has always been my champion. She was very smart and grounded. She said, 'Save your money. Pay your taxes. Don't put everything in one basket,' but she let me explore and be creative.
The political Right likes to champion individual rights and individual liberty, but it has also worked to enforce morality in relation to abortion, gambling, and homosexuality.
Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.
When I first asked my boxing coach, two-time Olympic champion Hector Vinent, what made the Cuban style of fighting distinct from the rest of the world, he smiled and told me to sit on a bench in Prado and watch the Cuban women walk.
I think as a Canadian hockey player, you go through it in your mind so many times, being able to stand on that blue line and hear your national anthem play and being a gold medal champion, you dream of that. And then to be able to accomplish that and actually win a gold medal and represent your country its an amazing feeling.
People still look at me as the champion and that's very important to me.
I want to be a champion for the people I have fought for all my life - regular people.
From 15 or 16, I always wanted to be an Olympic champion, but I don't think you ever believe it until it actually happens.
The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages.
All the champions - you go and ask Mike Tyson or Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, Lennox Lewis and myself included, and I'm sorry for putting myself in line with all the other great names - but the champion's attitude is it doesn't matter who is in front of me, I am going to conquer this person and win the fight and knock the person out.
To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well.
Because I was a champion swimmer in Canada, they're always trying to get me in the water in movies! I've drawn the line now with this film. No more water!
I love talking to interesting people - people like O.J. Simpson, Andretti... I love champions. A champion has something special about him.
What it is saying is that someone who was a world champion and who takes care of himself with a 17-year rest and applies the proper training techniques and perseverance could be successful.
'Ali' is the story of a lower middle-class golfer who becomes a champion. I find the game very interesting and would like to continue playing it regularly after the movie is wrapped up.
History serves as a model not only of who and what we are to be, we learn what to champion and what to avoid.
I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.
It is very good to be Olympic champion, but that is not the strongest field.
My biggest moment was winning the World Series because everyone in my town was able to feel he was a world champion.
