Quotes About Champion

A champion shows who he is by what he does when he's tested. When a person gets up and says 'I can still do it', he's a champion.

It's not so much what you accomplish in life that really matters, but what you overcome that proves who you are, what you are, and whether you are a champion.

A true champion knows how to overcome doubts and manage those doubts and turn them into motivation.

To become a champion, fight one more round.

Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run away when you lose.

If you are going to be a champion, you must be willing to pay a greater price.

In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.

In the world there are believers and then there are non-believers. For all of you non-believers out there, I have something to say to you...never underestimate the heart of a champion.

Sure the fight was fixed. I fixed it with a right hand.

I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.

Greg Jackson is a sport killer

The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.

On Rafael Nadal: Every point he plays is like match point. That's why he's the champion right now.

The difference is almost all mental. The top players just hate to lose. I think that's the difference. A champion hates to lose even more than she loves to win.

Throughout the history of the sport, the heavyweight champion has been... a reason to talk about boxing at the water cooler.

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.

So, I didn't say we are going to win a lot, but we are going to play like winners, and we've got a plan in place to teach our guys how to play like winners and play like a champion.

Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.

As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.

When I entered the sport of boxing I wanted to be one of the best and be undefeated. And I was able to attain that, not just one championship title, but four.

Winning is a great deodorant.

There's a confidence and a mental toughness that comes from the very highest level of competition, whatever the sport is. Whether it's boxing or wrestling, or whatever.

Winning the IBF title was the greatest night of my life. To give it up outside the ring is truly painful.