"The one-time cotton picker was now the heavyweight……" — Joe Louis

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• The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think… — Roger Bannister
• One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the… — Mortimer Adler
• Feedback is the breakfast of champions. — Ken Blanchard
• For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a… — Usain Bolt
• If you're the Olympic champion then they have to wait four more years to get you again. — Usain Bolt
• I'll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we'll be champions. — Bear Bryant
• We knew that you don't get to be world champions without a struggle. — Eric Cantona
• But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors… — Donald Cargill
• I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life… — Muhammad Ali
• We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war. — Jimmy Carter
• What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind. — Eldridge Cleaver
• A champion hates to lose even more than she loves to win. — Chris Evert

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