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Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are.

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.

There's been a lot of champions before me, and I'm sure there will be ahead of me.

True champions aren't always the ones that win, but those with the most guts.

I'm happy to belong to this group of top champions having excelled here.

Champions are not the ones who always win races - champions are the ones who get out there and try. And try harder the next time. And even harder the next time. 'Champion' is a state of mind. They are devoted. They compete to best themselves as much if not more than they compete to best others. Champions are not just athletes.

What makes a champion great is how he dethrones the guy before him. Look at Mike Tyson against Trevor Berbick and how he crushed him. You have to rip the title away from him.

It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced.

I don't believe in any Greatest Generation. I believe in great events. They sweep ordinary people up, expose them to extremes of human behavior and unimaginable tests of integrity and courage, and then deposit them back on the home front.

Everyone is at their best against the champions.