Quotes About Champions

To declare the Cubs champions after 108 years was the highlight of my career.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I'm inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

You need superhuman performances at the World Cup.

Even before the World Cup in 2010 I had said that there were no world champions who aim to stifle the opposition's play and somehow hope to win. These teams do not go far.

I just don't know why anyone would ever think that women's football is a step down and that coaching World Cup champions, winners, players that have represented their countries in the Olympics or European championships is a step down from anything.

At a World Cup it's hard to look much further than the traditional big-name teams: history backs that up.

Over a 10-season stretch from 1967 to 1976, eight Super Bowl champions either were the Raiders or had to beat the Raiders in the playoffs. The Jets, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Baltimore Colts, Miami, the Steelers each of the first two times... we all had to deal with the Raiders.

Both Chelsea and Manchester United will be challenging for the Premiership title next season.

You win a world title, you beat the best guys in the world, and a lot of these fans are kind of misconstrued about who are the best fighters in the world.

This is what champions do: champions defend. They always say you're not a champion until you defend your title.

I am here to win every possible title, including the Champions League.

The reality of this sport is champions make a heck of a lot more than non-champions, so the pressure to keep the title in order to keep earning that money is immense.

My two daughters were born in Madrid, I won three Champions Leagues and three La Liga titles as well.

I want to fight the top champions, I want to fight for titles.

My aims have always been to win titles and cups, to qualify for European football and to play in the Europa League or the Champions League.

Jermell and I made a similar agreement to each other that we will take to whatever division we grow into and hold titles there.

What will it take for you to forgive yourself for the mistakes you have made? Nobody sets out to fail. And yet we all do it. When we forgive ourselves for our mistakes, we give ourselves permission to be successful again. When we give ourselves permission to not be perfect, we stop dragging around the dead weight of guilt and fear and self-hatred. Then everything can shift. Then the whole world opens up to us. We can begin being the champions we've been all along.

I want to be like the athletes who seem stuck in time. When you see them at 50, you say they probably can still run like a champ.

They fought like champions. For a minute. Just when it was getting interesting, both boys were hauled away their collars. A watchful parent.

Justice at the deepest level had but few stalwart champions.

and if I have now been compelled to make a clear statement of his career it is due to those injudicious champions who have endeavoured to clear his memory by attacks upon him whom I shall ever regard as the best and the wisest man whom I have ever known.

You are closer to victory than you know, when you feel you just can't go on any longer. It is what makes champions who they are, the ability to muster up a little bit more when everyone else would give in. It is at that moment a tipping point usually occurs." I say to myself, "Victory must be just around the corner.

He dreamed big but understood that dreams become reality only when their champions are strong enough and wily enough to bend history to their purposes.

Perhaps even more significant is that here at the same table were two champions of abolition meeting at a time before either had entered the lists on its behalf, as it were.