Champion Quotes

"Inches make a champion."

"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships."

"It would be great for the sport and the division. One title. One champion."

"We played like a champion team in this match, and it was always our intention to play well in the semi-finals to send a clear signal that we want to do the double. We are at home and we know the conditions well."

"Seeing that match gave me motivation. Ryan was undefeated and a returning state champion. To see him lose it showed me no one's invincible."

"This World Series isn't about crowning a champion. I think the kids will remember this as a life experience, ... Not everyone that plays baseball gets the chance to play in a big-league ballpark, but these kids get a feel for what it's like to play in Wrigley Field, what it's like to hit a ball off the Green Monster, how it feels to play at Camden Yards."

"We've been going through things a Missouri team hasn't been through in a while. We upset the defending national champion, being ranked and having to defend that ranking. This two weeks has been tough on us. It really showed up in the last 10 minutes."

"Since I started my freshman year, the 400 hurdles was the event I wanted to be a national champion in."

"That was a great win. Paz was a league champion last year."

"He's an inimitable champion,"

"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,"

"a courageous fighter for working families; a voice for the elderly; a champion of all who have been left out, or locked out, of America's promise."

"This diminishes nothing. He is still the undisputed champion."

"I think Palatka's got a couple state champions. Palatka's 119 (Garcia) is definitely a state champion. He's worked hard. Crescent City's got a great one at 219."

"The way I look at it, I expect him to repeat as state champion, I'll put it that way because I think he earned the state title. I have no doubt he'll do it again, but this time he'll have the gold medal to show for it."

"Yeah, (he's a champion), if his test doesn't come back dirty, ... But it came back dirty, so he can't be a champion. You can't cheat and win. You get caught."

"That's a disincentive to being the undisputed champion."

"The champions are in our division, and until you knock the champion out and put them on the floor, they're still the champion. Three of the last four Super Bowl winners have come from this particular division. No question this is the toughest division in football."

"Sometimes you hear about the WPIAL champion having a hard time getting ready for states. I don't see that happening with this team. They'll be ready to play."

"Until you get a unified champion, it's just everybody's opinion."