Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mick McCarthy

He has some useful Premiership and Champions League experience and his versatility provides me with cover,

If someone comes and champions it, then maybe it will come back up. But I don't see that happening.

Frank Warren

He's had injuries, but you've seen him fight on American TV. ... It's denigrating my own man. I don't understand it. He will be there on March 4 and see where we are. I have all the faith he will prove to the world how great of a champion he is.

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.

Jan Ullrich

I would prefer not to go and have to do all the preparations for Madrid, ... The thing is, if I prepare for the World's, I prepare for the road race. I have twice been World Champion in the time trial, so now the road race is my focus.

James Blake

I guess I feel as good as I can feel, I fought my heart out. I had the crowd on my side for the first four matches unbelievably strong. To see how they reacted to him and see how much they wanted a champion like him to advance, it was great.

If we keep playing well in the Champions League, that can help in the Premiership. But there are big differences -- it's much more physical in England.

Zig Ziglar

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

Paul Rodriguez

We're talking about champions when there were real weight classes, too. Now, you can have a light lunch and be eligible to fight for a title in a heavier division.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 had a strong league tournament. I was hoping the kids would put it together by the end and they did. We finished second in the tournament point-wise but we had the most champions and the most finalists. I think all the kids wrestled very well. Most of them wrestled up to their potential. Like anything else there were a couple of disappointments and situations where the kids might have fared better but they didn't.

We've had reports of hail in the Champions area, lots of lightning. It's a dangerous storm.

Sharad Pawar

We all want to resolve issues and organize a successful Champions Trophy in India this year, but some venues have contractual obligations.

There is nothing more extraordinary than being champion. There have been many highs and lows. Now we are entering into legend.

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.

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.

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

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,

Until you get a unified champion, it's just everybody's opinion.

People are putting this thing as if Lewis is the champion and Denny the challenger. Denny is going to retain his title. He will still be the champion when all this is over.

Our juniors went out and had a great day. I'm really pleased with our lower levels. Our seniors are leading us really well, but you know, we're getting some points from these juniors. And more than scoring points, we had three conference champions today. That's pretty cool.