#champion

You know," she said, pulling back from his neck. "I've always been wrong about something." "And that is?" "I thought there was nothing in the world more seductive than a troubadour singing his observations about his lady love. But I was wrong." She trailed her fingernail down his arm, raising chills in its wake. "The most incredible seduction is when a knight who is renowned for his strength speaks from his heart. Not as a knave out to woo a woman because he can, but as a man who wants only to give of himself." Her gaze seared him as she stared into his eyes and he saw her innermost sincerity. "I love you, Stryder. I always will." -Stryder and Rowena ↗

— Kinley MacGregor

#kinley-macgregor #rowena #stryder #love

I've won a championship on every level except the NBA. It's frustrating to have not gotten that in the first two years. ↗

— Steve Blake

#every #except #first #frustrating #gotten

Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#championship #chess #computer #computer program #forward

I love short track. I competed in short track, I was a world champion in 1986 but at that point in time it wasn't in the Olympic Games so I moved into long track. Short track is a blast to skate and it's a blast to watch. ↗

— Bonnie Blair

#champion #competed #games #i #i love

I do practice martial arts, more as a recreational thing, but a lot of my friends have been heavyweight champions the in mixed martial arts world. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#been #champions #friends #heavyweight #i

My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#championships #father #fun #gave #good

The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships. ↗

— Kurtis Blow

#championships #famous #hip-hop #things #two

When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country. ↗

— Bobby Fischer

#championship #country #football #had #i

It's good that the first half of the speech emphasized freedom, because George W. Bush has been the global champion for freedom. As he said, if we don't fight tyranny it will not leave us alone in peace. ↗

— Ernest Istook

#because #been #bush #champion #emphasized

When I was 12, I had a coach tell me I would never be a championship pitcher. That devastated me. I was crushed. ↗

— Jennie Finch

#coach #crushed #devastated #had #i