#champions

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat. ↗

— Sam Snead

#back #champions #come #defeat #great

Nowadays it would be reasonable to have an annual world championship. ↗

— Boris Spassky

#championship #nowadays #reasonable #world #world championship

On the other hand, chess is a mass sport now and for chess organisers shorter time control is obviously more attractive. But I think that this control does not suit World Championship matches. ↗

— Boris Spassky

#championship #chess #control #does #hand

I won player of the year and players' player, two cups and two championship medals, had a great time. ↗

— Paul Gascoigne

#cups #great #great time #had #i

In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#beginning #championship #crazy #just #keep

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'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

People confuse being world No. 1 with winning a Major championship. ↗

— Lee Westwood

#championship #confuse #major #people #winning

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

Who ever wins today will win the championship no matter who wins. ↗

— Denis Law

#ever #matter #today #who #will