#world champion

If I would have listened to other people back in 2000 telling me I should have stopped playing basketball because of a kidney disease, I wouldn't have won a world championship. ↗

— Alonzo Mourning

#basketball #because #championship #disease #i

I wasn't happy with my performance at the World Championships in Daegu. I had an unbelievable race in the heats, but misjudged the semi and finished last. ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#finished #had #happy #heats #i

A half marathon is a good way to have a bit of fun and race against those girls and learn a bit more about them.The world half marathon is a world championship at the end of the day and it's important. I've win it twice and it's a quality event. ↗

— Paula Radcliffe

#against #bit #championship #day #end

I trained and trained and went up against Kurt, then being a world champion in '94, and after that I did Tommy's tour and then my tour and all this stuff and just trying to deal with it all. And now, I've just kind of backed off a little. ↗

— Elvis Stojko

#against #backed #being #champion #deal

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

They were ridiculous times. After I won my world championship in 1976, I went to Japan. ↗

— Barry Sheene

#championship #i #japan #ridiculous #times

My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#championships #father #fun #gave #good

The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships. ↗

— Kurtis Blow

#championships #famous #hip-hop #things #two

To my mind ClickThings, and John Underwood are world champion caliber, and I am delighted to have the opportunity to partner with them. ↗

— Boomer Esiason

#caliber #champion #delighted #i #i am

When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country. ↗

— Bobby Fischer

#championship #country #football #had #i