Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jacques Chirac

She will remain for me, as for many French, the smiling and emotional Olympic champion with the extraordinary stride,

She's phenomenal. She should be preparing for a high school graduation, not a national championship.

The American Communists had thrived as champions of domestic reform.

Bob Costas

Champions don't become champions in the field---they are merely recognized there.

Bobby Fischer

The system set up by F.I.D.E. ... Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion... The Russians arranged it that way.

Bobby Fischer

FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.

Bob Bryan

We're going to be the U.S. Open champions playing that match,

We're a very young team. We'll be back again. I think they know they lost to a team that could be a national champion this year.

Three state champion and seven medalists, we're pretty blessed. We had a great weekend and I'm not sure what else I can say about it.

We knew this would happen. When a team finishes as champion something similar always occurs. Opponents work out how you play, they mark you very closely and hardly let us move,

We knew they were quick and knew they'd present a problem for us. It was a game of ebb and flow. I told my players afterward that if you want to dethrone a champion in their own building, they go down hard." ()

Arnold Palmer

I have won the Australian, I won the British, all PGA championships, but I haven't won the PGA championship.

Denis Waitley

Champions never brag, never shout, never have to go to extremes to build themselves up for others or put others down. They let their actions, deeds, and results speak for them.

We're setting up for the Tournament of Champions -- that's district play. We had to get the kinks out so we can be ready and prepare for the district season.

Right now, it's disappointing. Hopefully, when you look back on it -- we were conference champions, district champions, Farmington Invitational champions and Christmas tournament champions -- it was a good year.

Pete is a great champion and fans have really missed his talent and character since he retired. His WTT matches will be the hottest ticket in tennis this summer.

Only two teams, the third place and state champion, go out with a win. I think we surpassed what many people thought we could accomplish.

Andy Roddick

I was sitting there in May not really playing much after the French, kind of deciding what route I wanted to go, ... I didn't really expect to finish up so strong. To have a Grand Slam title and then the Champions Race No. 1 trophy as well, it's been a ride since then.

There are very few highway-safety champions in Congress, and he is definitely one of them.

Arthur Lydiard

Champions are everywhere, you just have to train them properly

Arthur Lydiard

There are champions everywhere. Every street's got them. All we need to do is train them properly.

Ayn Rand

The majority of those who are loosely identified by the term 'liberals' are afraid to let themselves discover that what they advocate is statism. They want to keep all the advantages and effects of capitalism, while destroying the cause, and they want to establish statism without its necessary effects. They do not want to know or to admit that they are the champions of dictatorship and slavery.

I am satisfied we could push the world champions into a fifth day and that was our moral victory.

Chris Coleman

But they are still in the Champions League and they have got a great chance. It's been a topsy-turvy season for them.

But the heat was loaded - the Olympic champion, world champion and European champion were all in it. I knew it was going to take sub-51." ()

BB&T has been a champion in downtown revitalization in Lenoir. We've done quite a lot. We helped create quite a few jobs with the retail spaces.

Mullins was the conference champion, but with an 11-9 record, we felt we had a shot and went after it. Our effort was there, but we couldn't pull it out.

Maybe they are these young crazy kids and they didn't know they were supposed to wilt. At that point, we felt like, 'OK, here it comes. We're going to go on a roll and it will be, Nice job, Riverside, thanks for showing up.' But they hung tough and did what champions do.

Rafael Benitez

Now we intend to finish the job with another victory. If we do that we will be virtually through into the knockout stages. We have been very positive in our Champions League matches and I hope that we can continue this now.

Now that the merger is completed and we have had a closer look into Champion's businesses, we are even more optimistic about the opportunities this acquisition will provide,

Obviously if you are at The Players Champions or the Masters, which are elite events, and your defending champion is in the hunt, you get a number of on-air mentions. That can't hurt.

Give Indian Land credit because they battled back and got back in the game. They are the defending region champions and they showed they're going to defend it in a tough way.

Given the choice between winning the Champions League or the Italian league title, I think our fans would choose the Champions League,