Champion Quotes by Legends
Champion Quotes by Legends
Collection of Champion Quotes by legends, hall of famers, coaches, and world champions.
- “To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.” ~Muhammad Ali
- “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” ~Vince Lombardi
- “My brain . . . It cannot process failure. It will not process failure. Because if I sit there and have to face myself and tell myself, ‘You’re a failure’ . . . I think that’s almost worse than death.” ~Kobe Bryant
- “Never say never because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.” ~Michael Jordan
- “Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.” ~Lou Holtz
- “Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the face.” ~Mike Tyson
- “There is no way around hard work. Embrace it. You have to put in the hours because there’s always something which you can improve.” ~Roger Federer
- “The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.” ~Tommy Lasorda
- “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” ~Michael Jordan
- “Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It’s our goal in life to find it and keep it lit.” ~Mary Lou Retton
- “It ain’t over ’til it’s over.” ~Yogi Berra
- “To be a champion you must act like one, act like a champion.” ~Lou Ferrigno
- “From nobody to upstart. From upstart to contender. From contender to winner. From winner to champion. From champion to Dynasty.” ~Pat Riley
- “Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.” ~Larry Bird
- “Before we can talk about a championship, we have to practice like a championship team.” ~Mike Singletary
- “If you can see it here and you have the courage enough to speak it, it will happen. People believe in certain things but they keep to themselves, they don’t put it out there. If you truly believe in it, if you become vocal with it, you’re creating that law of attraction and it will become reality.” ~Conor McGregor
- “Make each day your masterpiece.” ~John Wooden
- “Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.” ~Bo Jackson
- “For me, winning isn’t something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream.” ~Emmitt Smith
- “It’s not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.” ~Paul “Bear” Bryant
- “Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” ~Michael Jordan
- “It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.” ~Muhammad Ali
- “Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.” ~Magic Johnson
- “During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.” ~Mickey Mantle
- “Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.” ~Bobby Unser
- “That’s my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck’s back. If it’s not positive, I didn’t hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.” ~George Foreman
- “If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?” ~Joe Namath
- “It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.” ~Vince Lombardi
- “There may be people that have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do.” ~Derek Jeter
- “Commitment is a big part of what I am and what I believe. How committed are you to winning? How committed are you to being a good friend? To being trustworthy? To being successful? How committed are you to being a good father, a good teammate, a good role model? There’s that moment every morning when you look in the mirror: Are you committed, or are you not?” ~Lebron James
- “The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.” ~Pele
- “One thing about championship teams is that they’re resilient. No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity.” ~Nick Saban
- “If you have everything under control, you’re not moving fast enough.” ~Mario Andretti
- “I think this can be a championship team. But we do have to take it one game at a time. You can’t look at the end of the road before you get the next foot in.” ~Michael Strahan
- “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” ~Billie Jean King
- “I don’t run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.” ~Nadia Comaneci, Romania, gymnastics
- “Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.” ~Babe Ruth
- “As I and the rest of my Pittsburgh Steelers teammates prepared that week in late December 1974, we knew one thing: The road to the Super Bowl in the AFC went through Oakland. To achieve your dreams as a team, you had to slay the Oakland Raiders. They were the barometer of what it took to be a championship team.” ~Joe Greene
- “I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.” ~Tom Landry
- “You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.” ~Michael Jordan
- “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” ~Wayne Gretzky
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