#champ

You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings. ↗

— Jack Dempsey

#before #champion #gong #just #know

Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends. ↗

— Tom Waits

#friends #pain #real #real friends #real pain

In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way. ↗

— John Thorn

#baseball history #championship #ever #had #his way

Champagne arrived in flûtes on trays, and we emptied them with gladness in our hearts... for when feasts are laid and classical music is played, where champagne is drunk once the sun has sunk and the season of summer is alive in spicy bloom, and beautiful women fill the room, and are generous with laughter and smiles... these things fill men's hearts with joy and remind one that life’s bounty is not always fleeting but can be captured, and enjoyed. It is in writing about this scene that I relive this night in my soul. ↗

— Roman Payne

#bounty #champagne #classical-music #feasts #happiness

Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt. ↗

— Jack Wagner

#chip #club #down #greens #hit

One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers. ↗

— Lawrence Welk

#i #instead #introduced #makers #music

The joy I get from winning a major championship doesn't even compare to the feeling I get when a kid writes a letter saying: 'Thank you so much. You have changed my life.' ↗

— Tiger Woods

#changed #compare #even #feeling #get

You can win all the tournaments you want, but the majors are what you're remembered for. It's how you're measured as a champion in our sport. The majors are where it's at. ↗

— Tiger Woods

#how #majors #measured #our #remembered

Those opportunities to play in championship games are few and far between. ↗

— Jack Youngblood

#championship #far #few #games #opportunities

The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think may happen doesn't happen. A champion is beaten, an unknown becomes a champion. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#beaten #becomes #champion #filled #general