Quotes of: Championing Keyword

I was ready in 2008 for the Olympic Games but unfortunately I missed the Kenyan trials with a thigh injury. I watched those Olympics but it was tough to watch. But it was good in the end because a Kenyan, Wilfred Bungei, was the champion.

David Rudisha

Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are.

Nancy Lopez

Ask me what makes a champion runner, and I will tell you it helps to have the great good sense to choose your parents carefully.

Sebastian Coe

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

Muhammad Ali

I champion the idea of being more conscious. I call it being an active architect of your own life. Building your life like an architect builds a structure.

Hill Harper

My biggest moment was winning the World Series because everyone in my town was able to feel he was a world champion.

Johnny Bench

You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.

Daley Thompson

What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.

Eldridge Cleaver

I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.

Billie Jean King

I used to trapshoot. I was actually a junior national champion. My parents are trapshooters, so I'm more into target stuff.

Greg LeMond

To be a champion, you have to learn to handle stress and pressure. But if you've prepared mentally and physically, you don't have to worry.

Harvey Mackay

Ofili is still a champion. It would be a huge mistake to think otherwise.

Jerry Saltz

They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.

John Millington Synge

Since I was a boy of five or six, I had it in my mind I would be a world boxing champion.

Joe Frazier

It is a burden because I get asked about my father all the time. I just need to accept that he was a champion before me.

Nico Rosberg

Anne Napolitano: [Jack is drunk on Jack Daniel's] Breakfast of champions, huh, Jack?

The Fisher King

If I wasn't a champion, I'd still be in jail. That makes me try very hard.

Amnat Ruenroeng

I'll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we'll be champions.

Bear Bryant

For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I'm working on it.

Usain Bolt

That’s the best thing about friendship. It is a gift that cannot be lost. Only thrown away.

Dragon Champion

You will never be entirely comfortable. This is the truth behind the champion - he is always fighting something. To do otherwise is to settle.

The Flinch