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The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.

John Madden

I want to be an Olympic champion.

Marion Jones

If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart.

Chris Evert

We won't be represented in the Irish Champion. But we will certainly have runners at Doncaster.

Simon Crisford

That's what makes a champion, the guys who do the little things.

Mark Belenski

Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.

Althea Gibson

We have a new, real world champion here today.

Garry Kasparov

Any time you're the conference champion, you get probably more votes for your players. As it should be.

Ben Howland

I'm going to be a national champion.

Quinten Fuentes

We'll wait for the Champion Hurdle [before blinkers are applied again].

Dessie Hughes

That was a great win. Paz was a league champion last year.

Robert Nebeker

Saintly was a champion.

Bart Cummings

He's a champion and he's won so many golf tournaments.

John Daly

I was seeded second (behind Bender, the defending MBC champion at 125), so, yes, it was a surprise that I won.

Chris Block

When they went to the state, and came back as a state champion, then we were all sisters and brothers there really.

Alvin Anderson

We will discuss with the owners whether we go for the French Champion Hurdle.

Willie Mullins

I'm not looking to waste time on someone who can't be a world champion.

Tom Yankello

There is one thing that you'll never take from Eddie Guerrero. Eddie will always be a champion.

Chris Benoit

[We want to] be the champion of micro-business.

Saul Klein

It went well. We had a champion, a runner-up, a fourth and a sixth.

Herb Stinson

A champion of the homosexual agenda.

Louis Sheldon

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

Pat Riley

I don't want to be remembered as a beaten champion.

Rocky Marciano

I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.

Floyd Patterson

Freddie is a champion from that perspective, he was really keen to go in.

Shaun Pollock

Golf has lost a great champion.

Ben Crenshaw

She plays with the heart of a champion. She will do anything you ask.

Mike Helmer

I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.

Billie Jean King

He's an inimitable champion.

Adriano Galliani

As a county commissioner, I would like to be a champion for Washington County as far as attracting new business to the county.

Dr. Jonathan Greenberg

I have been a champion with every team I have played with.

Mateja Kezman

Become a champion in life, By conquering the enemy within.

Master Jin Kwon

He's been a champion for veterans and he's going to be sorely missed.

Joe Violante

I just feel it's something I should do as the Open champion.

Ben Curtis

During the '80s and '90s, Lew became a champion for work-life balance.

Roy Verley

These are the games you like being in, because it defines character, and it defines a champion.

Lendale White

For 97 1/2 yards he was state champion. He's been there, and he's hungry.

Mark Wagner

He didn't hurt me. I can't take anything away from him. He has a lot of power and was a great champion.

O'neil Bell

All I know is, I can and will be the world champion.

Joe Mesi

This team is the world champion and the Olympic champion. We didn't get that for free.

Higinio Velez

He always said Mark was going to be a world champion.

Henry Ramirez

What happened in the past is just that, the past. Champion or not.

Steve Nash

It was a good race anyway. He's a great champion.

Asafa Powell

Certainly to come from behind and to pull it out at the end, you have to give a lot of credit to T.J.. He did what he had to do to win. And that's what being a champion is all about.

Steve Bilheimer

Dan drove like a champion, again, as he has all year long.

Michael Andretti

We're 2-0-1 in the tournament, we're still in first place. If we win on Wednesday, we'll be the champion.

Scott Parillo

I didn't aspire to be a good sport; 'champion' was good enough for me.

Fred Perry

They should tangle for a great race. One could be a state champion.

Dave Peterson

She has the heart of a champion. She just refuses to lose.

Mike Helmer

We have heart, the heart of a champion.

Bob Vaughan

We don't want to be a semifinalist or a runner-up. We want to be a state champion.

Kevin Hunt

If the world champion falls, they get a minus-3.

Charlie Cyr

We only had one champion in 2002. And we won the meet very handily. So, you don't always have to have the best individuals. You have to have the best team.

David Marsh

I can be a world champion. I know I can.

Brian Joubert

Coach Hart told me I could be Olympic champion.

Jeremy Wariner

Lindsay is great champion.

Francesca Schiavone

She has the true combination of a champion. They're hard to find, I'll tell you that.

Arno Hoogveld

To be the host is an advantage, but to be the champion you have to beat everybody.

Paulo Autuori

A champion views resistance as a gift of energy.

Michael J. Gelb

I believe now there is a champion for business transformation, and that is a lot of what DTS is about. There's more collaboration than in the past with the business systems.

Rich Fabbre

It was a great race. He's a great champion. I respect him a lot.

Asafa Powell

Only because I'm a state champion.

Sam Zylstra

Sid was a tremendous champion as always. He's such a classy kid, as good a kid as there is.

Bob Callahan

I want to be the champion. I am confident I can do it.

Lin Dan

Dan drove like a champion today.

Michael Andretti

A champion team will always beat a team of champions.

John Mcgrath

I want to be a world and Olympic champion as an amateur.

Aamir Khan

There's no politics involved. It's about as fair a way you can have to determine a champion.

Jake Shields

Yeah, (he's a champion), if his test doesn't come back dirty, ... But it came back dirty, so he can't be a champion. You can't cheat and win. You get caught.

Chris Byrd

My goal is to be the undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the World.

Evander Holyfield

He's an Olympic champion, so he's right.

Erben Wennemars