#champion

I did six years of planning to win the championship from Jack Dempsey. ↗

— Gene Tunney

#dempsey #did #i #jack #planning

Upon awakening in the morning, I wondered if the proceedings of the night before had been a dream. It was hard to believe that I was the world's heavyweight champion. ↗

— Gene Tunney

#been #before #believe #champion #dream

Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt. ↗

— Jack Wagner

#chip #club #down #greens #hit

Only one guy can be world champion, and so if everyone else thought they were failures you'd have no one left on the grid. ↗

— Mark Webber

#else #everyone #failures #grid #guy

Those opportunities to play in championship games are few and far between. ↗

— Jack Youngblood

#championship #far #few #games #opportunities

The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think may happen doesn't happen. A champion is beaten, an unknown becomes a champion. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#beaten #becomes #champion #filled #general

Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#fear #fine #forcing #gluttony #hypocrisy

I still think we have a great shot at this championship. ↗

— Jeff Gordon

#great #i #shot #still #think

Athens is a great place for me. It is my second home. It's where I won my first world championship medal, it's where I set my world record. ↗

— Maurice Greene

#championship #first #first world #great #home

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion. ↗

— Mia Hamm

#because #champion #defer #i #i am