World Champion Quotes
60 quotes by 52 authors
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In the history of each sport, the heroes who win the Olympic gold medal are the ones we remember. Nobody remembers the World Champion 25…
— Lavinia Milosovici
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At the Olympics, there was a little bit of unfair judging, but I tried not to be disappointed and to do my best. I think…
— Olena Vitrychenko
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I wasn't born a world champion. I just worked really hard to become one.
— Layne Beachley
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The great World Champions Morphy, Steinitz, and Lasker were past masters in the art of Pawn play; they had no superiors in their handling of…
— Jose Raul Capablanca
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By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion
— Garry Kasparov
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You can't be one of the best freesurfers and a world champion.
— Jordy Smith
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The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches.
— Anatoly Karpov
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We need strong personalities and only one world champion to attract sponsors
— Anatoly Karpov
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Michael Schumacher deserved the driver's championship. To be honest, I didn't want to keep my record as the last Ferrari world champion; it's never done…
— Jody Scheckter
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I want to thank America. You opened your heart so I could enter. Thank you everybody who lives in the United States, who saw me…
— Roberto Duran
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I ran like a champion. It is a great consolation to show how dominant I am. I am the Olympic champion and the world champion,…
— Justin Gatlin
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By no means because I am a World Champion will I ever stop learning and that’s the biggest thing that’s difficult for someone to see.
— Elvis Stojko
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When you have a World Champion in your smartphone, the myth of the superior brainpower of human chess champions has lost its power.
— Hans Ree
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The Olympics is a special event and winning is very important. For me as a world record holder and world champion, the only thing I…
— David Rudisha
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Believing in myself and not to be afraid of taking any risks. I have to be better than the average person to succeed. That’s why…
— Lou Ferrigno
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My most difficult opponent is myself. When I am playing I often involuntarily make a world champion out of a candidate master.
— Lev Polugaevsky
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Part of my preparation for the World Champion match against Kasparov was to be ready for his off-board tactics. I did not to react to…
— Vladimir Kramnik
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I thought I was playing the world champion, not some 27-eyed monster who sees everything in all positions.
— Tony Miles
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Carlsen came with a line that was not very theoretical, trying to challenge the World Champion to play chess. [...] But Anand proved that even…
— Alejandro Ramirez
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The loss of my childhood was the price for becoming the youngest world champion in history. When you have to fight every day from a…
— Garry Kasparov
Who Wrote These World Champion Quotes
52 authors contributed a total of 60 World Champion Quotes, led by these top contributors: