Champions Quotes

“Beasts bounding through time.

Van Gogh writing his brother for paints
Hemingway testing his shotgun
Celine going broke as a doctor of medicine
the impossibility of being human
Villon expelled from Paris for being a thief
Faulkner drunk in the gutters of his town
the impossibility of being human
Burroughs killing his wife with a gun
Mailer stabbing his
the impossibility of being human
Maupassant going mad in a rowboat
Dostoevsky lined up against a wall to be shot
Crane off the back of a boat into the propeller
the impossibility
Sylvia with her head in the oven like a baked potato
Harry Crosby leaping into that Black Sun
Lorca murdered in the road by the Spanish troops
the impossibility
Artaud sitting on a madhouse bench
Chatterton drinking rat poison
Shakespeare a plagiarist
Beethoven with a horn stuck into his head against deafness
the impossibility the impossibility
Nietzsche gone totally mad
the impossibility of being human
all too human
this breathing
in and out
out and in
these punks
these cowards
these champions
these mad dogs of glory

moving this little bit of light toward
us
impossibly”
― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

“Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Everyone has the fire, but the champions know when to ignite the spark.”
― Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step

“The Motto of Champions: If you are hurt, you can suck it up and press on. If injured, you can rebound and return bigger and better...and continue to inspire!”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

“Champions never sleep, the eternal spirit keep them alert and awake.”
― Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step

“Nothing in the world is the way it ought to be. It's harsh and cruel. But that's why there's us. Champions. It doesn't matter where we come from, what we've done or suffered, or even if we make a difference. We live as though the world was what it should be, to show it what it can be.”
― Joss Whedon

“إن المرحلة المسماة عند المشتغلين بعلم النفس (عبادة الأبطال) هي مرحلة مرتبطة بالمراهقة، فهل تعكف المجتمعات غير الناضجة على عبادة أبطالها مثلما يفعل المراهقون، بدلا من مواجهة واقعها والتعامل معه وتطويره؟”
― يوسف زيدان, كلمات: التقاط الألماس من كلام الناس

“It is not over. Champions extend their limits and make things happen.”
― Amit Ray

“In this man’s smile was all the unfairness of the world in its thuggish seduction. “Just come with me. We’ll take care of you.”

“No, you won’t.” Taylor stroked the man’s cheek. She reached her arms up to cradle the back of his head and, with the skill of a champion, she broke his neck. Then she dragged him into the bushes, took his gun and walkie-talkie, and kept moving.”
― Libba Bray, Beauty Queens

“The difference between champions and everyone else is that champions are never afraid of losing, while everyone else is afraid of winning.”
― Jeffrey Fry

“Men dressed in an embroidery of excuses are not fit to enter the colorful chamber of champions”
― Osho Samuel Adetunji

“To be creative, you need at least an hour of free time a day.”
― Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step

“There are demons within. And they're the deadliest kind.”
― Karren Renz Seña

“Fornication is the murderer of champions and of people who have success, power, wisdom and anointing.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“What I hadn't expected was to be blindsided by a history lesson that betrayed every hard-won experience I'd had as a player and now a coach at the same school I'd attended. . . Whoever was responsible for sending a championship team into virtual obscurity was either a serious egomaniac or just plain mean. It stung.

After all, wasn't the story told at today's funeral the stuff of legacies? Of school lore passed on to the next class, and the next, building institutional pride as well as magical identities that made every kid in the state want to play there?”
― Jo Kadlecek, When Girls Became Lions

“Champions don't give up; they get up!”
― Sanjo Jendayi

“Those who rejoice in your pain, may not know that pain is where champions are shaped.”
― Gift Gugu Mona

“Someone has to be the best; the champion; the winner. Why not you?”
― Butch Bellah, The 10 Essential Habits of Sales Superstars: Plugging into the Power of Ten

“I'm sure that not all Champions are serious all the time. It's just not stuff that gets written in the history scrolls, that's all.”
― Tyrean Martinson, Champion in the Darkness

“The mindset of the Champions is All of it or None of it; they don't play second- fiddle.”
― Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Best Option

“Champions know the emotions you want to feel and help you feel them by remaining genuine to a noble intention.”
― Thomas Le Hoang

“Champions have different mentality they have a stronger self belief.”
― Sandeep Kakkar

“Those that survive the crucible of affliction die to self, and yet live for all.”
― Martin Uzochukwu Ugwu

“Champions are propelled by desire, not compelled by fear.”
― Denis Waitley

“One of the biggest lessons I learned that day is that anybody can quit; people quit all the time, and no one thinks very highly of them for doing it. Only real champions and people of character and strength keep going past the point of wanting to give up. Only real champions cross the finish line when they are completely worn out. But that’s where the rewards are.”
― Sadie Robertson, Live Original: How the Duck Commander Teen Keeps It Real and Stays True to Her Values

“As a teacher who was also a runner, becoming a coach of runners was a natural thing to do.”
― Ken Sayles, Coach, Run, Win

“The athletes and coaches are the team, but the parents and families make it a program.”
― Ken Sayles, Coach, Run, Win

“It is thrilling and humbling to realize the impact we coaches have on you, and I am so happy that it was a positive and joyous experience that we shared.”
― Ken Sayles, Coach, Run, Win

“What makes the difference between the Cowards and Champions is their mentality and attitude of tackling challenges in tough times.”
― Anufa Freeborn

“Their 108-year wait for another title was the longest championship drought in sports. The last time they did win the World Series, in 1908, occurred in the lifetimes of Mark Twain, Florence Nightingale, Geronimo, Winslow Homer, and Joshua Chamberlain, and in a world when the Ottoman Empire still existed but the 19th Amendment, talking motion pictures, electrified traffic lights, and world wars did not.”
― Tom Verducci, The Cubs Way: The Zen of Building the Best Team in Baseball and Breaking the Curse