#champion

Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion. ↗

— Major Taylor

#modesty #should #success #typical

There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions. ↗

— Michael Moorcock

#eternal-champion #madman #courage

The team which I led to the 1992 European Championship Finals is the only one in the history of the entire competition to have won every single one of its qualifying matches. ↗

— Michel Patini

#competition #entire #european #every #finals

At big championships it's not the fastest person, it's the person who gets it right on the day. ↗

— Paula Radcliffe

#championships #day #fastest #gets #person

People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings. so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#body #breakfast-of-champions #chemicals #human #kurt-vonnegut

Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#community #competition #giftedness #modern #printing-press