Quotes About Champions

No good idea succeeds simply because it is a good idea. Good ideas must have champions—people willing to believe in them, push for them, fight for them, gain adherents and other champions, and press until they succeed.

Boxing should focus on pitting champion versus champion - those are the fights that everyone wants to see. The sports also needs to work on developing new heroes and personalities. I'd like to see more vignettes on fighters, focusing on their lives, goals and stories. Boxers need to be larger than life.

The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.

We talk about these legendary fighters, talk about how they had hundred-something fights, hundred-something victories... but when you look at the history books, I still beat more world champions than any fighter in history.

The Libertadores is sensational, but the Champions League... The first time I heard the anthem was a really special feeling. It's like being in a video game; it's living the dream of every child.

I have looked at videos of many great champions like Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Joe Frazier, who each had special qualities. I never say one particular fighter is the best ever because each has a special unique style of fighting.

Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them...a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.

When you have a chance to take the ball for the world champs, you take the ball.

We love winners. We love winners. Winners are winners.

Champions are propelled by desire, not compelled by fear.

I grew up at a time when West Indies dominated the world. For 15 years from 1980, the West Indies never lost a Test series.

If you're in the UFC, you're one of the baddest dudes around.

If you look at history of athletics in the country almost all champions have hailed from the villages.

Champions don't become champions in the ring—they are merely recognized there.

Los juegos los juegan los individuos, pero los campeones son los equipos.

You can't help people become winners unless they want to win. Champions become champions from within, not from without.

Hard days are the best because that's when champions are made.

The will to prepare, the guts to risk, and the desire to be the best. These are trademarks of champions.

The champs are the guys who can do it the best, to lock it in for 25 minutes and do what they plan to do.

It may seem heretical to link the three great progressive champions of the twentieth century—Wilson, FDR, and Johnson—with racism. But the indisputable fact is that all three were either racist themselves or made their peace with racism. Progressive historiography has had to work overtime to conceal the actual facts. There

Progressives run for office as the champions of Social Security. Progressives viciously attack any politician who exposes the financial irresponsibility or speaks out against the Ponzi scheme as being "against Social Security" and "against seniors.

Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits.

Work without joy is drudgery. Drudgery does not produce champions, nor does it produce great organizations.

Fear Does Not Crown Champions.