#champion

Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion. ↗

— Major Taylor

#modesty #should #success #typical

There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions. ↗

— Michael Moorcock

#eternal-champion #madman #courage

The team which I led to the 1992 European Championship Finals is the only one in the history of the entire competition to have won every single one of its qualifying matches. ↗

— Michel Patini

#competition #entire #european #every #finals

I have a feeling we are going to be world champions, I can't really explain why. Brazil are probably the best team in the world in terms of individual players. But the team with the most gifted players do not always win. ↗

— Oliver Kahn

#best #brazil #champions #explain #feeling

When I was 12, I had a coach tell me I would never be a championship pitcher. That devastated me. I was crushed. ↗

— Jennie Finch

#coach #crushed #devastated #had #i

I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition. ↗

— Olga Korbut

#been #before #big #championship #compete

I've been in the league 12 years. To sit on the bench and complain about the way things were, that doesn't get anything done. I don't know. I'm playing for a championship and trying to make the playoffs. My effort has never changed. ↗

— Chris Webber

#anything #been #bench #championship #changed

The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out. ↗

— Dan Wheldon

#championship #each #early #enough #entertainment

The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages. ↗

— Esther Williams

#got #i #loved #more #national

One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#christian #christian faith #early #embarrassing #faith