The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.
There must be a reason why "stand" and "tall" are used together to indicate bravery: champions don't live in hiding.
I will never be an insider. I want to be the champion of people who don't have insiders and lobbyists supporting them.
The Afghans are probably the world champions in resisting foreign domination and infiltration into their country.
I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.
Only one guy can be world champion, and so if everyone else thought they were failures you'd have no one left on the grid.
I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.
My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a hard relationship with my dad, he became a father figure to me.
I owe a great deal to Harold Hobson, doyen drama critic of the 'U.K. Sunday Times,' who championed me as Shakespeare's Richard II at the 1969 Edinburgh Festival.
If, in our first match for the world champion's title, I had managed to make the score 6-0, there would have been no Kasparov as a good chess player at all.
I go where the revolution is, and the revolution is Ron Paul. Ron Paul is a champion of the Constitution. He's about getting rid of the Federal Reserve and shrinking federal government.
Ever since I was a child I always wanted to be WWE Champion. I've been in love with sports-entertainment for my entire life, and I always wanted to do that.
I want to be a champion for the people I have fought for all my life - regular people.
I would agree to some extent that on the Champions Tour that there is a greater premium on putting than the regular tour because of the course setups.
I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal.
A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol.
In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I was a King - and when you are King you feel a lot of responsibility, but there is nobody there to help you.
The way to know about championship quality is to learn from champions, and that I did; studying them with professional purpose during my time in the ring and from habitual interest afterward.
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.
You can win all the tournaments you want, but the majors are what you're remembered for. It's how you're measured as a champion in our sport. The majors are where it's at.
What could be better than walking down any street in any city and knowing you're the heavyweight champion of the world?
