#world champion

We need strong personalities and only one world champion to attract sponsors. ↗

— Anatoly Karpov

#champion #need #only #personalities #sponsors

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

Whatever luck I had, I made. I was never a natural athlete, but I paid my dues in sweat and concentration and took the time necessary to learn karate and become world champion. ↗

— Chuck Norris

#become #champion #concentration #dues #had

I think that the World Champion should try to defend the quality of play more than anyone else. ↗

— Boris Spassky

#champion #defend #else #i #i think

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

What it is saying is that someone who was a world champion and who takes care of himself with a 17-year rest and applies the proper training techniques and perseverance could be successful. ↗

— Mark Spitz

#care #champion #could #himself #perseverance

All these nice people saying I'm going to be world champion won't make me any faster, you have to believe it yourself. ↗

— Sebastian Vettel

#believe #champion #faster #going #i

Only one guy can be world champion, and so if everyone else thought they were failures you'd have no one left on the grid. ↗

— Mark Webber

#else #everyone #failures #grid #guy

I've enjoyed winning races in both 500cc and MotoGP and enjoyed leading the world championship and contesting it right up until the end. ↗

— Sete Gibernau

#championship #end #enjoyed #i #leading