Famous Quotes & Sayings

Helen Clark

We prefer our champions to be humble and modest,

Andrew Nikiforuk

Bitumen, the new national staple, is redefining the character and destiny of Canada. Rapid development of the tar sands has created a foreign policy that favours the export of bitumen to the United States and lax immigration standards that champion the import of global bitumen workers.

We're excited about the opportunities .... The local community has shown great interest in supporting NAIA student-athletes and the Champions of Character program so we are thrilled to showcase some of the top NAIA golfers in the country at a wonderful host facility.

Dan Marino

The will to prepare, the guts to risk, and the desire to be the best. These are trademarks of champions.

Dwyane Wade

Nobody knows that they're going to be Champions - you have to work to get there.

Michael Campbell

The previous champions are all of the greats in golf,

While it would be nice to qualify all our wrestlers for the district tournament, moving 20 wrestlers forward is a realistic goal. We are very fortunate to be returning several USAW Kansas Kids and high school state champions and medalists to this tournament series. We expect to have several of our wrestlers medal high at subs.

We want to win the conference championship. Our focus is on this weekend; we are not thinking about the conference tournament.

Mack Brown

We have 15 starters back next year and our expectations today remain the same as before Vince's decision. We are defending national champions and will move forward.

Jim Courier

We are excited to launch the Champions Cup Series and unveil another high quality tennis property in the United States.

When you get down to tournament time, the difference between the winners, the champions and the people who go home are the people who can win the games when they're not playing well. In tournament play, we'll take any win that we can get, anyway, anyhow.

This system will put a lot more importance on winning the region title. The format will reward teams for being region champions and runners-up.

We thought throughout the season we had a championship-caliber team, but I know you can't be national champion without the right things happening, and they did in this case,

Jeremy Foley

Why not us? Why can't we be champions in basketball, too.

Hayley Wickenheiser

To be Olympic champions for the second time in a row is great. It's definitely harder to defend gold than to win it.

To say we did well is an understatement. We really dominated the tournament. The champions we had ? not just from Mount Sinai ? I think are going to represent Division II at the tournament in a very positive fashion. We have some very tough kids and I think we're going to do well in the states.

UCLA are undefeated national champions and Stanford were last year's runners-up so they are definitely favored to win.

We will discuss with the owners whether we go for the French Champion Hurdle.

We will continue to oppose the Champions Trophy.

Bruce Feiler

I was surprised how relevant the Moses story was to contemporary American debates - from our ongoing debate about values, to our role as champions of freedom, to our place as a country that welcome immigrants.

Zig Ziglar

Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means 'the love of wisdom.'

We placed third the last two years. But we have been league champions in three of the last five years. I am very proud of my team.

Financing the transfer is impossible. We could only justify the move if we were guaranteed to play in the Champions League for the next three seasons. There is no guarantee of that.

Randall Kennedy

I champion sensibly designed racial affirmative action, not because I have benefited from it personally - though I have. I support it because, on balance, it is conducive to the public good.

Tyler is one of those kids who deserves this more than anyone. He's a hard worker and he wanted it. Now he's a district champ and no one can take that away from him.

We've been going through things a Missouri team hasn't been through in a while. We upset the defending national champion, being ranked and having to defend that ranking. This two weeks has been tough on us. It really showed up in the last 10 minutes.

Alissa Czisny

Michelle has done so much for the sport and been a champion so many years, I'm guessing they will give her a spot on the Olympic team. It's important for the rest of us just to focus on our own skating.

Martin Johnson

Whoever wins the game, however they do it, they'll be world champions on Saturday and deserving of the title,

Adriano Galliani

We have only the Champions League in mind and we are focusing exclusively on Barcelona.

We had information as to who he was and what he might be doing,'' Champagne said.

We had (five) minutes of self-destruction. You can't spot the champions five goals.

We have a lot of respect for Waukesha South. They're the conference champions and they've had a great season. But right now, we're going to sleep on this win for a day and then get back to work on Wednesday.

Olli Jokinen

We have to learn from this. They showed why they were the Stanley Cup Champions two years ago. Good teams never quit.