“Please don’t call me arrogant, but I’m European champion and I think I’m a special one.”
José Mourinho (1963) Portuguese association football player and manager
http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/news/newsid=1033132.html <br class="br">2004
Interview, 1969 http://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/interview-with-kirk-douglas
“Please don’t call me arrogant, but I’m European champion and I think I’m a special one.”
José Mourinho (1963) Portuguese association football player and manager
http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/news/newsid=1033132.html <br class="br">2004
Yuzuru Hanyu (1994) Japanese figure skater (1994-)
Quote from an article on the Olympic Channel https://www.olympicchannel.com/en/stories/news/detail/yuzuru-hanyu-coy-cryptic-beijing-olympic-2022-chen-ankle/, published 3 April 2019. (Retrieved 11 September 2020) <br class="br">Other quotes, 2019
“I'm running for president. Everyday Americans need a champion, and I want to be that champion.”
Hillary Clinton (1947) American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady
Tweet (12 April 2015) https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/587336319321407488 <br class="br">Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016)
Steven Gerrard (1980) English footballer
Jose Mourinho on Steven Gerrard, (8th May 2015) http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/jose-mourinho-on-steven-gerrard-i-tried-to-sign-him-three-times-he-is-one-of-my-favourite-enemies-10236838.html
“Thiago has the physical and technical characteristics of a champion.”
Thiago Silva (1984) Brazilian footballer
Paolo Maldini, 2009 http://archiviostorico.gazzetta.it/2009/agosto/25/Maldini_Milan_credici__ga_10_090825047.shtml <br class="br">From former and current footballers
Larry Holmes (1949) American boxer
As quoted in "Sport: Larry Holmes: I Still Have It" by Tom Callahan in TIME (21 June 1982).
Viswanathan Anand (1969) Indian chess player
Quotations by 60 Greatest Indians, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology http://resourcecentre.daiict.ac.in/eresources/iresources/quotations.html,
“Faith is the champion of grace, and love the nurse; but humility is the beauty of grace.”
Thomas Brooks (1608–1680) English Puritan
Source: Quotes from secondary sources, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, 1895, P. 221.
“The world still needs
Its champion as of old, and finds him still.”
Lewis Morris (poet) (1833–1907) Welsh poet in the English language
The Epic of Hades (1877), "Herakles".