Famous Quotes & Sayings

We will continue to oppose the Champions Trophy.

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.

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.

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

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.

Andrew Nikiforuk

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Helen Clark

We prefer our champions to be humble and modest,

We are not giving up on the Champions League. Our rivals will have their dips in form before the end of the season.

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.

Rebecca MacKinnon

If multi-stakeholder Internet governance is to survive an endless series of challenges, its champions must commit to serving the interests and protecting the rights of all Internet users around the world, particularly those in developing countries where Internet use is growing fastest.

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.

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.

We have a very experienced team with high expectations. These girls have played in some big games. They were sub-state champions last year and gained a lot from the experience in Hutchinson.

We have not specifically identified which Champions Trophy within that time period that we would like to host, we've only submitted an interest to host ICC events at this stage.

We have not decided anything regarding not participating in future Champions Trophy tournaments.

We haven't had any team state titles, but we've had several district champions and a lot of good teams here. We've had teams get close, but at some point, a school comes and trips us up.

Pinball Clemons

Those are the kinds of things you're going to have to execute if you want to be champions again.

We are in the race for the Champions League and it is more in our own hands now.

Daunte Culpepper

We're not trying to get just due. That's not our motive. We want to win the championship because we want to be champions as a team. It has nothing to do with individuality. Nobody on the team wants to be an individual. That's what I really like about our team now.

Pancho Gonzales

The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.

We know the Champions League remains a very difficult competition. But given the make-up of the group, it's possible for Lyon to figure in the top two and qualify for the quarter-finals.

We have to work to try and win the league as soon as possible and concentrate on the Champions League. We want to reach the final in Paris and win it.

Kids who walk away from the Chandler Rotary meet as champion or even in the top three should feel a sense of accomplishment. We wouldn't miss this meet for anything.

Jake lost to an outstanding wrestler. He's a two-time state champion and ranked second in the nation.

Jack Jones is the greatest living trade unionist and a fearless champion for standing up and fighting back for justice,

Harry Redknapp

Jose won't let him come but I would have taken him. They need their players for the Champions League so there is little chance of Glen coming.