#champ

We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours? ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#battles #been #black #champions #class

I was able to do Classics, the U.S. national championships and the Pan American Games and feel like I improved with each meet, but I was still struggling with a lot of residual pain from the two surgeries. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#american #championships #classics #each #feel

My father was an army champion boxer... in the British army. And so he loved boxing and talked it up as a sport. But then when my brother and I were beating the crap out of each other, he was always trying to tone it down. But I am a fan of boxing. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#am #army #beating #boxer #boxing

The heartbeat of a football team is the quarterback position and I think everyone who has any intelligence about the game understands you must have consistency at that position to be a championship team. ↗

— Ron Jaworski

#any #championship #championship team #consistency #everyone

For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. I solved the problem by sticking my finger in my mouth and popping it out. ↗

— Lawrence Welk

#champagne #cork #exploding #finger #get

But I was always a bit of a gypsy, anyway. I spent five years at Oklahoma State, five years at Miami and moved on after winning the national championship, and five years with the Cowboys. So, I was ready to move on. We won back-to-back Super Bowls, and I felt that I accomplished what I wanted to accomplish. ↗

— Jimmy Johnson

#accomplished #after #always #anyway #bit

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#being #champagne #comfortably #feeling #filled

I think the players win the championship, and the organization has something to do with it, don't get me wrong. But don't try to put the organization above the players. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#championship #get #i #i think #me

Winning isn't always championships. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#championships #winning

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#champion #hope #human #human rights #i