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Jai Ganesh

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Champion Quotes - II

Champion Quotes - II

1. I went to see President Nixon at the White House. It wasn't difficult to get a meeting because I was heavyweight champion of the world. So I came to Washington and walked around the garden with Nixon, his wife and daughter. I said: I want you to give Ali his licence back. I want to beat him up for you. - Joe Frazier

2. I feel like it's harder because everyone knows I'm the three-time world champion - it's almost like people are waiting for something bad to happen. - Simone Biles

3. When I started boxing, people laughed at me and said, 'What can women do in boxing?' I took it as a challenge. If men can do it, why can't women? And I became a world champion before my marriage. - Mary Kom

4. To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well. - Anatoly Karpov

5. In terms of playing ability there is nothing to choose between number one and 100. Instead, it's a question of who believes and who wants it more? Which player is mentally stronger? Which player is going to fight the hardest in the big points? These are the things that determine who is the champion. - Novak Djokovic

6. One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people - men of the stature of Garry Kasparov, the former world champion, who was my part-time coach. - Magnus Carlsen

7. I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion. - Billie Jean King

8. As six-time world karate champion and then a movie star, I put too much trust in who I was, what I could do, and what I acquired. I forgot how much I needed others and especially God. - Chuck Norris

9. The boys, they are laughing: 'Oh, you are boxing. Very funny.' But I always challenge when people are laughing - 'I'll show you one day.' After getting five times world champion, they are all quiet. And they respect me. - Mary Kom

10. To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost. - Chris Evert

11. When I was a boxer, I wanted to be champion of the world, not the richest man in the world. - George Foreman

12. Joe Frazier was the epitome of a champion. I mean, here is a guy who was total old school, blue collar, who would fight anybody. You know, he didn't tell you he was the best fighter pound for pound. - Sugar Ray Leonard.

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