Definition of Champion

Champion

To furnish with a champion; to attend or defend as champion; to support or maintain; to protect.

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Champion Quotations

I hated every minute of training, but I said, "Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."
Muhammad Ali

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.
Mia Hamm

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.
Mia Hamm

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.
Wilma Rudolph

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.
Jimmy Carter

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.
Pat Riley

There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.
Pat Riley

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
Billie Jean King

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

The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think may happen doesn't happen. A champion is beaten, an unknown becomes a champion.
Roger Bannister

What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.
John McEnroe

They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.
John Millington Synge

The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.
John Madden

Hopefully I can become the Babe Ruth of the World Wrestling Federation and be the champion at the same time.
Hulk Hogan

I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.
Jackie Stewart

A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.
Jack Dempsey

I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal.
Dorothy Hamill

The Internal Revenue Service is the real undefeated heavyweight champion.
George Foreman

As an Olympic champion gymnast, I have always stayed involved in my sport.
Nadia Comaneci

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

We need strong personalities and only one world champion to attract sponsors.
Anatoly Karpov

My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We're from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers.
Olivier Martinez

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
Oliver Goldsmith

What happened in the past is just that, the past. Champion or not.
Steve Nash

You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings.
Jack Dempsey

Do you have any ambitions outside racing? My main ambition at the moment, whether inside or outside racing, is to become Formula 1 World Champion.
Kimi Raikkonen

A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol.
Jack Dempsey

All these nice people saying I'm going to be world champion won't make me any faster, you have to believe it yourself.
Sebastian Vettel

I am confident that you brothers in parliament will champion the will of the people over that of the occupier.
Muqtada al Sadr

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Champion Translations

champion in Dutch is voorvechter, titelhouder, kampioen
champion in French is champion
champion in German is Meister
champion in Hungarian is bajnok
champion in Italian is campione

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