... America has amnesia. ... Certainly, there is a passion for memory loss in American thought. ... Americans may be the world champion forgetters. — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
The system set up by F.I.D.E. ... Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion... The Russians arranged it that… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
If you become world champions, there is nothing to top that. It's the result of many years of work, good decisions inside… — Joachim Low Copy Share Image
Only one guy can be world champion, and so if everyone else thought they were failures you'd have no one left on… — Mark Webber Copy Share Image
The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches. — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
I'm not thinking about coaching, I'm thinking about heading to Washington, watching the world champions and my brother coach — Jon Gruden Copy Share Image
[When I'll be old I see myself] as a world champion, on a big farm with an Italian-style, big family with a… — Bernie Ecclestone Copy Share Image
I thought I was playing the world champion, not some 27-eyed monster who sees everything in all positions. — Tony Miles Copy Share Image
Carlsen came with a line that was not very theoretical, trying to challenge the World Champion to play chess. [...] But Anand… — Alejandro Ramirez Copy Share Image
They only delivered the newspaper once a week where I lived in Oklahoma, and those people lived and died with the box… — Johnny Bench Copy Share Image
When I was 15 years old I felt totally confident I would become a world champion and the greatest bodybuilder in the… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
His teaching became a turning point in chess history: it was from Steinitz that the era of modern chess began. The contribution… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
I feel blessed that I managed to fight 46 fights undefeated, that I was a world champion for 11 years, one of… — Joe Calzaghe Copy Share Image
This fight means the world to me. It's what I've been dreaming about since I was 10 years old to win a… — John Molina, Jr Copy Share Image
All my fans, especially my Latino fans and Nicaraguan fans, I promise you I will become world champion. After I become world… — Ricardo Mayorga Copy Share Image
I studied every move, I became fascinated by thinking what I could have done differently. And I take that approach now as… — Conor McGregor Copy Share Image
I may have become a world champion quicker than most, but people should look at me and realise there are all kinds… — Mikaela Shiffrin Copy Share Image
Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when it comes to multiple-weight world champions, they have so much skill that it eliminates the excitement out of the fights. — Paulie Malignaggi Copy Share Image
To be world champion brings fame. The fame brings good things and bad things too. I try to take the good with… — Sergio Martinez Copy Share Image
Being the undisputed world champion is a relief. We instituted a unified chess title, I am the absolute world champion. — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
I've been trained by a two-time world champion kickboxer, who's local to where I come from, and who is really just there… — Kieran Bew Copy Share Image
I'm going to give the people their money's worth...true sports entertainment for their dollar. I'm the undefeated IBF Light Heavyweight World Champion… — Tavoris Cloud Copy Share Image
... in itself the title of world champion does not give any significicant advantages, if it is not acknowledged by the entire… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
For inspiration I look to those great players who consistently found original ways to shock their opponents. None did this better than… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
A lot of people have been saying I am obsessed with the "making history" thing. But it's what pushes me, it's what… — James DeGale Copy Share Image
I'm going to wait until I'm 20 before I start calling out world champions. — Ryan Garcia Copy Share Image
I wasn't born a world champion. I just worked really hard to become one. — Layne Beachley Copy Share Image
I've finished two former world champions back-to-back and then the No. 2 contender. — Anthony Smith Copy Share Image
I carried the WBO belt for five years and defended it 15 times against 10 world champions. — Naseem Hamed Copy Share Image
If I'm to accomplish my goal of being the world champion I've got to be better; so every day I come in… — Daniel Cormier Copy Share Image
Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
There are world champions out there that no one has heard of. I don't want to be one of those guys. — Luke Campbell Copy Share Image
My most difficult opponent is myself. When I am playing I often involuntarily make a world champion out of a candidate master. — Lev Polugaevsky Copy Share Image
You know, every morning that I wake up...I realize that being World Champion is a gift. And let me be the one… — Oscar Gutierrez Copy Share Image
![“[When I'll be old I see myself] as a world champion, on a big farm with an Italian-style, big family with a whole bunch of grandchildren. And the foundations for that I have already laid!” quote by Bernie Ecclestone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fa0/bernie-ecclestone-8452_big-families_when-i-ll-be-old-i-see-myself-as-a-world_1037907.jpg)
![“Carlsen came with a line that was not very theoretical, trying to challenge the World Champion to play chess. [...] But Anand proved that even this obscure line is something he has studied before, and it was Carlsen that was set back.” quote by Alejandro Ramirez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dea/alejandro-ramirez-217317_challenges_carlsen-came-with-a-line-that-was-not-ve_1181423.jpg)
