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“At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.”

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Author:Muhammad Ali

“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it.”

Source: Muhammad Ali Unfiltered: Rare, Iconic, and Officially Authorized Photos of the Greatest

“In the history of each sport, the heroes who win the Olympic gold medal are the ones we remember. Nobody remembers the World Champion 25 years ago, but everyone remembers who the Olympic Champions were, even 100 years ago.”

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Author:Lavinia Milosovici

“At the Olympics, there was a little bit of unfair judging, but I tried not to be disappointed and to do my best. I think the audience respected and loved what I did at the Olympics, and that helped me become the world champion in 1997.”

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Author:Olena Vitrychenko

“I don't play them a lot of minutes. I have great starters. I have All-Stars, world champions.”

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Author:Bill Laimbeer

“I wasn't born a world champion. I just worked really hard to become one.”

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Author:Layne Beachley

“A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes.”

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Book:Chess Fundamentals

Source: Chess Fundamentals

“The great World Champions Morphy, Steinitz, and Lasker were past masters in the art of Pawn play; they had no superiors in their handling of endgames. The present World Champion has not the strength of the other three as an endgame player, and is therefore inferior to them.”

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Author:Jose Raul Capablanca

“In Chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated.”

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Author:Emanuel Lasker

“Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player”

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Author:Max Euwe

“By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion”

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Author:Garry Kasparov

“Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing”

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Book:Muhammad Ali Unfiltered: Rare, Iconic, and Officially Authorized Photos of the Greatest

Source: Muhammad Ali Unfiltered: Rare, Iconic, and Officially Authorized Photos of the Greatest

“You can't be one of the best freesurfers and a world champion.”

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Author:Jordy Smith

“I'm not thinking about coaching, I'm thinking about heading to Washington, watching the world champions and my brother coach”

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Author:Jon Gruden

“The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches.”

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Author:Anatoly Karpov

“We need strong personalities and only one world champion to attract sponsors.”

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Author:Anatoly Karpov

“Michael Schumacher deserved the driver's championship. To be honest, I didn't want to keep my record as the last Ferrari world champion; it's never done me any good!”

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Author:Jody Scheckter

“I want to thank America. You opened your heart so I could enter. Thank you everybody who lives in the United States, who saw me grow into becoming a world champion.”

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Author:Roberto Duran

“I ran like a champion. It is a great consolation to show how dominant I am. I am the Olympic champion and the world champion, but I want Justin Gatlin to be the champion of everything.”

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Author:Justin Gatlin

“By no means because I am a World Champion will I ever stop learning and that’s the biggest thing that’s difficult for someone to see.”

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Author:Elvis Stojko

“If I could apologise and go back and change history I would do. But the goal is still a goal, Argentina became world champions and I was the best player in the world”

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Author:Diego Maradona

“Although I have to say, it's become a lot harder for me since I won the world series because everyone wants to beat me. For example, bluffing is really tough now, because there's always someone who calls me on the off-chance that they'll then be able to say they read a world champion's bluff.”

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Author:Chris Moneymaker

“The Olympics is a special event and winning is very important. For me as a world record holder and world champion, the only thing I am missing is the Olympic gold medal and that is what I want to achieve in my career.”

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Author:David Rudisha

“Believing in myself and not to be afraid of taking any risks. I have to be better than the average person to succeed. That’s why I chose bodybuilding. If I became a world champion, if I could win admiration from my peers, I could do anything.”

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Author:Lou Ferrigno

“My most difficult opponent is myself. When I am playing I often involuntarily make a world champion out of a candidate master.”

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Author:Lev Polugaevsky

“... Tal accepted absolutely all the world champion's conditions with a smile, taking away a very important psychological trump card from him - the harsh, prickly relations with his opponent that were characteristic of all Botvinnik's matches.”

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Author:Gennadi Sosonko

“Part of my preparation for the World Champion match against Kasparov was to be ready for his off-board tactics. I did not to react to them at all. Once you start thinking about these things during the game, even analysing them, you're caught.”

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Author:Vladimir Kramnik

“I thought I was playing the world champion, not some 27-eyed monster who sees everything in all positions.”

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Author:Tony Miles

“Carlsen came with a line that was not very theoretical, trying to challenge the World Champion to play chess. [...] But Anand proved that even this obscure line is something he has studied before, and it was Carlsen that was set back.”

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Author:Alejandro Ramirez

“It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”

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Author:Muhammad Ali

“The rules are changed now, there's not any way to build a team today. It's just how much money you want to spend. You could be the world champions and somebody else makes a key acquisition or two and you're through.”

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Author:Whitey Herzog

“The loss of my childhood was the price for becoming the youngest world champion in history. When you have to fight every day from a young age, your soul can be contaminated. I lost my childhood. I never really had it. Today I have to be careful not to become cruel, because I became a soldier too early.”

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Author:Garry Kasparov

“I feel blessed that I managed to fight 46 fights undefeated, that I was a world champion for 11 years, one of the longest reigning champions of all time and I like to think that I come out looking pretty good.”

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Author:Joe Calzaghe

“All boxing experts told Helenius is the next world champion! Chisora beat him.”

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Author:Vitali Klitschko

“There's a big difference between me and a real, legitimate working hand, or a world-champion rodeo cowboy. I play 'em, and I aspire to be like that, but those guys are tough.”

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Author:Luke Perry

“To be world champion brings fame. The fame brings good things and bad things too. I try to take the good with calmness.”

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Author:Sergio Martinez

“They wanted to wait, to improve, to get better, when he's already a world champion. And that's a mistake. That's a chicken attitude.”

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Author:Sergio Martinez

“For me right now I think being the world number one is a bigger deal than being the world champion because I think it shows better who plays the best chess. That sounds self-serving but I think it's also right.”

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Author:Magnus Carlsen

“All I expect are wins and to get pleasure from the game. And if someone thinks something about me, if someone's dissatisfied with something... that's not my headache. I hope someday I'll become World Champion - and I'll make all these people happy. But even if for some reason that doesn't happen it won't stop me getting pleasure from chess. I'm sure of that.”

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Author:Magnus Carlsen

“The system set up by F.I.D.E. ... Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion... The Russians arranged it that way.”

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Author:Bobby Fischer

“... in itself the title of world champion does not give any significicant advantages, if it is not acknowledged by the entire chess world, and a champion who does not have the chess world behind him is, in my view, a laughing-stock.”

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Author:Emanuel Lasker

“The cherished dream of every chessplayer is to play a match with the World Champion. But here is the paradox: the closer you come to the realization of this goal, the less you think about it.”

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Book:Tal-Botvinnik 1960: Match For the World Chess Championship

Source: Tal-Botvinnik 1960: Match For the World Chess Championship

“When I started out playing chess as a kid I thought I should be world champion. As a kid you have no idea what that means and you only sort of picture it. It is hard to imagine that I waited all those years and it happened in a late stage of my career.”

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Author:Viswanathan Anand

“I have a feeling we are going to be world champions, I can't really explain why. Brazil are probably the best team in the world in terms of individual players. But the team with the most gifted players do not always win.”

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Author:Oliver Kahn

“I think that the World Champion should try to defend the quality of play more than anyone else.”

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Author:Boris Spassky

“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.”

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Author:Kimi Raikkonen

“They only delivered the newspaper once a week where I lived in Oklahoma, and those people lived and died with the box score of my games. My biggest moment was winning the World Series because everyone in my town was able to feel he was a world champion.”

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Author:Johnny Bench

“You know, every morning that I wake up...I realize that being World Champion is a gift. And let me be the one to tell you I'm loving every minute of it!”

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Author:Oscar Gutierrez

“And here comes Mika Hakkinen, double world champion twice over.”

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Author:Murray Walker

“I am very happy to announce my renewal with HRC. I had always dreamed about being part of the Repsol Honda Team, and thanks to Honda, the dream came true a year and a half ago. Everything happened very quickly last season, and I would have never imagined that I could achieve what we did. Becoming World Champion during my first s eason was another dream turned into reality. It is a great honor to be a part of the Honda family, and I'm glad to remain with this special group of people for another two seasons.”

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Author:Marc Marquez

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