Words matter. These are the best World Champion Quotes from famous people such as Sete Gibernau, Diamond Dallas Page, George Groves, Benson Henderson, Kell Brook, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’m proud of my triumphs. I’ve dreamed of being world champion, I’ve had some difficult times and they’ve made me value the good times.
I don’t think I’ll ever be out of wrestling, because I was that kid at 8 years old that dreamed of being a world champion.
Carl Froch is a strong, seasoned world champion and there’s no quit in him.
It’s a very slippery slope when you have a world champion boxer fighting an MMA guy for the sake of money, and he can’t knock him out in the first round. He has to make sure he carries him a little bit.
This has been a dream of mine since I was a kid… I’m passionate about being a world champion, believe me.
When you become a world champion and you defend your title for five or six years, and you have fifteen defences of your title, and you round up most of the other belts – and you feel you’re the best of your generation at the time – nobody can take that away from you.
I’m proud of what my brother has done. His success motivates me. He’s a world champion.
Can’t fight destiny. It’s my destiny to be a world champion.
Ive won it once, and that might be enough for some people, but it isnt for me, he says. I want to do this again and again. I want to be called out as a multiple world champion, and spoken about like some of the greats of the game.
My dream as a child was being a world champion.
For me, being world champion, you have to put your body through these extreme tests, day in and day out. So when Sunday comes around, that’s the day when I pamper myself. I might get a massage or go to a spa.
A player cannot become a world champion overnight. To become a champion, a player has to sacrifice a lot and to devote much of his time practising and training.
I had the one goal to become world champion for so long and now that I’ve achieved it, I thought that it was the top of the mountain. But now that I’m up there, it’s not.
I’ve been asked many times, do you regret never having been the world champion, you know? I kind of laugh. I say well, you know, this business is a work. It’s like, none of those guys are ever really the world wrestling champion. The titles are props in this business.
Being a world champion is out of the ordinary.
I wanted to be a world champion of some sorts since I got into the industry, when I was 15 years old, and I was able to do that.
I would love to end my career as World Champion.
I’m a world champion, I’ve beaten everyone I’ve been in with and I want to test myself.
I’m a world champion and I know the immense amount of focus that it took to become a world champion and I know the immense amount of focus that it takes to stay a world champion.
On a week night I’ll be with the family. I’ve got a six-year-old brother, Solomon, he’s gonna be a boxer for sure, a world champion in the making. We talk boxing and just bounce off each other’s energy.
I’m so proud, and it feels brilliant to be a world champion.
In 2017, I boxed in front of a home crowd in Sheffield and became the WBA super-middleweight world champion. After four attempts I had finally fulfilled my childhood dream, and the experience was as great as I had always imagined it would be. It was without doubt the best moment of my career.
Every fighter goes into the gym to be a world champion.
I love short track. I competed in short track, I was a world champion in 1986 but at that point in time it wasn’t in the Olympic Games so I moved into long track. Short track is a blast to skate and it’s a blast to watch.
Of course I will turn professional at some stage. Then I want to be a world champion and finish up a legend and be out of the sport by the time I am 27.
The ultimate goal for me is to be the world champion – it’s all I’ve wanted to do since I was a kid – so when the money that comes with it is life-changing, yes, that’s nice, but get The Ring magazine belt, being considered the world champion, is something money can’t buy.
I’ve been through so much damn adversity, I’ve had so much critiqued on me. From being the undefeated world champion to never really getting the love or the respect I feel I deserved when I was on top and then finally getting knocked down and then everybody jumping on top, trying to kick me while I was down.
I’ve had the dream of being a world champion since I put on my first pair of gloves.
I am European Games champion now as well as Olympic champion, European champion, and world champion.
I’m here at Madison Square Garden as world champion and have a world champion’s mentality, the pressures on to defend my belt – this is what champions do.
That’s what a true professional is – a true world champion, so to everybody out there listening, especially the fighters that want to fight me… they’ll get knocked out, sparko.
It’s a quality you need to be a world champion; you have to have that killer instinct.
I knew I was a world champion and a top contender at the highest level for over a decade, but I think I’ll be remembered as somebody that was an ambassador for the sport, someone who helped build something bigger than myself, and also for the team I’ve been able to build.
Thankfully I still have things I want to achieve so I can just set more goals. Now I want to unify, I want to have big fights and then one day move up and become a two-weight world champion.
At the end of the day, I want to be a world champion.
Mayweather has been hit the least out of every world champion in history and that is the art of the sport; to hit and not get hit.
I went from the top of the world 11-0, 25 years old, world champion to a three-fight skid.
We dreamt of that as kids growing up. Like, main eventing, being world champion, walking down that aisle at WrestleMania as the last match, as the main event, as the headliner.
I’ve experienced success, I’ve experienced failure, I’ve been a world champion, I’ve fought all over the world; I think I’ve experienced enough that I won’t get in front of a million people and get gunshy.
I know people didn’t think I’d become a world champion – even people probably in my own camp, my own team, didn’t think I’d become a world champion this quickly.
I’ve been laughing with my brothers about it. Paul and Stephen both won the British title before me, but I’m going to be the first world champion in the family.
All I want is to be a world champion and I will take on anyone to achieve that.
I’m not Ken Shamrock the MMA World Champion No Holds Barred fighter. I’m Ken Shamrock, The World’s Most Dangerous Man. Professional wrestling and MMA champion.
From a young age, people have been touting me as a future world champion and it’s nice to get that out of the way.
I knew I had the ability to become a world champion, I knew I did. I knew I just needed the opportunity.
You can be world champion, but ranked No 6 in the world, with there being four champions.
To my mind ClickThings, and John Underwood are world champion caliber, and I am delighted to have the opportunity to partner with them.
My self-belief, really is what kept me going, I always believed I could be a great champion, a world champion.
If Messi were Brazilian, he would be a world champion.
Being a world champion is something I’m already proud of and can take for the rest of my life.
I feel like it’s harder because everyone knows I’m the three-time world champion – it’s almost like people are waiting for something bad to happen.
I’m two times world champion, I’ve got nothing to prove to anybody.
I am dying to be a world champion, a single’s world champion.
I haven’t set myself any goals or targets because I am taking each day as it comes. But who is to say that I can’t be a world champion, or do anything that I put my mind to?
What it is saying is that someone who was a world champion and who takes care of himself with a 17-year rest and applies the proper training techniques and perseverance could be successful.
I want to stay active and busy. I don’t just want to fight a no-name opponent. I want a decent name or a big name or a world champion, somebody who is going to challenge me. That’s just it.
I have nothing bad to say about Briedis. His style is a bit boring, but I respect him. Briedis is a world champion, so he has to be good.
We came to 135 to snatch a belt, and I felt like I definitely wanted to do that. I’d be a two division, three-time world champion. So I thought it was a great idea to do, so we did it.
When I first came in, I won a world championship pretty fast. Then I worked with John Morrison and Daniel Bryan, became King of the Ring, went back to ‘SmackDown,’ became the world champion again, won the Rumble, did a lot of things, went away after an injury.
Since I’ve lived in Barcelona, I’ve played a bit of padel, so maybe I’ll become World Champion at that – joking, of course!
There was a question in my mind, because I am black, if the fans would accept a black world champion. ‘Bash at the Bash’ was a topsy-turvy night. Finally, when the 1-2-3 came, the fans erupted. All my questions were answered; they really did want to see me win.
I wanted to be a world champion.