Champion the right to be yourself; dare to be different and to set your own pattern, live your own life, and follow your own star.
My most difficult opponent is myself. When I am playing I often involuntarily make a world champion out of a candidate master.
Ruslan Chagaev is a great boxer and very experienced. He has won almost all of his fights and has already been world champion. And he is a fair sportsman. That is something I like. I have a lot of respect for him.
I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.
The American Communists had thrived as champions of domestic reform.
Any man can do what he has to do. But doing it like you love it? That is what takes it to a whole different level. A champion does it like he loves it, even when he doesn't.
My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a hard relationship with my dad, he became a father figure to me.
Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.
I think everybody should take the attitude that we're working to be a champion, that we want to be a champion in everything that we do. Every choice, every decision, everything that we do every day, we want to be a champion.
You know, when you've been to the top, you get comfortable, and you know what it feels like to be a champion, to have nice things and all that. You know, it's just not as appealing as it was coming up.
Be very strong. . . be very methodical in your life if you want to be a champion.