#champion

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

— Major Taylor

#bow #champion #day #each #even

I would like to cite an instance which proves the efficacy of clean living on the part of an athlete coupled with the inspiration received from a champion which go a long way to making a champion. ↗

— Major Taylor

#champion #cite #clean #clean living #coupled

Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors. ↗

— Major Taylor

#champion #condition #confidence #essential #factors

I want to thank America. You opened your heart so I could enter. Thank you everybody who lives in the United States, who saw me grow into becoming a world champion. ↗

— Roberto Duran

#becoming #champion #could #enter #everybody

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round. ↗

— James J. Corbett

#champion #fight #fighting #more #round

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

— Jack Dempsey

#gets #someone #up #who

I want to be a champion for the people I have fought for all my life - regular people. ↗

— John Edwards

#for the people #fought #i #life #my life

I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal. ↗

— Dorothy Hamill

#champion #deserve #ever #gold #gold medal

That was the fight. I knew that I had done something that no man had been able to do to a champion. ↗

— Thomas Hearns

#been #champion #done #fight #had

There are far more important things in life than making a putt or missing a putt or winning a championship or losing a championship. ↗

— Bernhard Langer

#far #important #important things #life #losing