#champ

A champion is someone who gets up when he can't. ↗

— Jack Dempsey

#gets #someone #up #who

In this man’s smile was all the unfairness of the world in its thuggish seduction. “Just come with me. We’ll take care of you.” “No, you won’t.” Taylor stroked the man’s cheek. She reached her arms up to cradle the back of his head and, with the skill of a champion, she broke his neck. Then she dragged him into the bushes, took his gun and walkie-talkie, and kept moving. ↗

— Libba Bray

#beauty

Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown. ↗

— Althea Gibson

#champion #crown #eat #good #well

I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal. ↗

— Dorothy Hamill

#champion #deserve #ever #gold #gold medal

Only 38 per cent of players in the Premier League are English; that is a damning statistic. Soon, the England manager will have to go scouting for players in the Championship - and when I say 'soon' I mean the next four or five years, perhaps even for the next World Cup. ↗

— Glenn Hoddle

#championship #cup #damning #england #english

I fancy our chances at the European Championships. ↗

— Frank Lampard

#chances #european #fancy #i #our

It's torturous what my siblings put me through. I can take any Olympic final, I can fight in a world championship and fall behind and win in sudden death, but when it comes to my siblings, it's out of my control. There's not much I can do. ↗

— Steven Lopez

#behind #championship #comes #control #death

I wanted to be a world champion. ↗

— Manny Pacquiao

#i #wanted #world #world champion

I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics. ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#championships #constantly #fitness #i #improving

You will never have great tennis champions from England because of the cold and dark, but most of all because people only care about the sport for two weeks a year, and then they're on to something else. There's just not a great love of the sport there. ↗

— Monica Seles

#because #care #champions #cold #dark