“To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It's not about winning and losing; it's about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge. It's about embracing the pain that you'll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid.”— Summer Sanders
“A champion is not made when he succeeds, a champion is made when you look back at the seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, and months, you have spent preparing.”— Nadia Comaneci
“You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.”— James J. Corbett
“To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It's not about winning and losing; it's about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge.”— Margaret Smith Court
“To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.”— Miguel Indurain
“Champions are champions not because they do anything extraordinary but because they do the ordinary things better than anyone else.”— Chuck Noll
“If you want to be a champion, you've got to feel like one, you've got to act like one, you've got to look like one.”— Dan O'Brien
“A champion shows who he is by what he does when he's tested. When a person gets up and says 'I can still do it,' he's a champion.”— Evander Holyfield
“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