Quotes About Champion

I thought I was going to jump further than that, but I don't care - I'm Olympic champion.

I think it was just me who thought I could be Olympic champion. I've been telling myself that, and I did that.

When I chose athletics, I knew I wanted to be Olympic champion, and now I have done it in London.

I think about Rio every day. Every day in training, it's something that drives me forward. I want to be Olympic champion.

Once you become an Olympic champion, you are expected to win all the time.

The reason I like Olympic boxing is that all the best fighters come together and find out who the best fighter is.

Henry Cejudo is going to become the greatest combat athlete of all time, being an Olympic champ and a two-division champ in the UFC.

I had a dream as a young boy to be Olympic champion in boxing, and that's what I focused on with my father - making it a reality.

My number-one goal was just to be a good person, a good father, a good husband and then, after that, was to be an Olympic champ and eventually a UFC champ. And I've done everything I've ever kinda set my mind to.

I went and played football so I can support my family like I wanted to. Track has been my real dream, to be an Olympic champion and God gave me another opportunity.

I love all the attention I've got since becoming Olympic champion and being asked to go to different events, but boxing is what I do.

I've become Olympic champion six times and I've never taken a performance-enhancing drug in my life, but I was lucky in that I never even had the choice. I never had pressure and I never had a person come to me saying, 'You should do this.'

I've done things, from the Olympics to defeating two of the greatest fighters of all time.

Russell joined the team in December, 1956, following the Olympics.

Winning the Olympics was an amazing feeling, but afterwards, it was a bit like, 'What do I do now?' So I lost a bit of motivation going back into training and competitions; I had so much pressure on me. I kept thinking, 'I'm the Olympic champion. I can't lose' - being only 19 and having to deal with all that pressure.

Once a champion, always a champion.

Every champion was once a challenger.

You know, once you have the belt you want to be less active, fighting once a year.

At one time, when I was first starting, when I was first champion, I wanted to be undisputed champion so I could hold all the belts and no one else could say they were champion. Then you realize the boxing business, the politics, get involved and it's not very likely you can accomplish all that.

A lot of people think you're not the champion until you defend it one time.

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.

He was stoutly opposed to the idea of marrying anyone; but if, as happens to the best of us, he ever were compelled to perform the wedding glide, he had always hoped it would be with some lady golf champion who would help him with his putting, and thus, by bringing his handicap down a notch or two, enable him to save something from the wreck, so to speak.

Smart practice always includes a feedback loop that lets you recognize errors and correct them - which is why dancers use mirrors. Ideally that feedback comes from someone with an expert eye - and so every world-class sports champion has a coach. If you practice without such feedback, you don't get to the top ranks. The feedback matters and the concentration does, too - not just the hours.

Brain studies find that having a champion athlete start pondering technique during a performance offers a sure recipe for a screwup.