A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
Billie Jean King

A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.
Jack Dempsey

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.
Pat Riley

A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol.
Jack Dempsey

Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the cause. Perhaps he will start to champion perjury statutes and obstruction of justice.
Barbara Olson

Ali and I have become friends over the years. I was on a plane with him one time when he was the champion.
Robert Goulet

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

As an Olympic champion gymnast, I have always stayed involved in my sport.
Nadia Comaneci

Be very strong... be very methodical in your life if you want to be a champion.
Alberto Juantorena

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

But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and say so.
Donald Cargill

Do you have any ambitions outside racing? My main ambition at the moment, whether inside or outside racing, is to become Formula 1 World Champion.
Kimi Raikkonen

Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.
Major Taylor

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
Oliver Goldsmith

First of all I thought it was ugly, I thought it was ridiculous that undercover police guys would drive a striped tomato and I've never been a big champion of Ford.
Paul M. Glaser

Hopefully I can become the Babe Ruth of the World Wrestling Federation and be the champion at the same time.
Hulk Hogan

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.
Mia Hamm

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

I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them.
Armand Assante

I don't want ever to be champion again.
Boris Spassky