Top 494 Champion Quotes

I want to be the undisputed champion of the world.

I do want to look my best – I do want to be at my best – ’cause I do want to be WWE Champion. I do want to be on top.

Mike Tyson is the most complex person I’ve ever met in my life. I’ve known Mike since 1986. We’re both from Brooklyn. I didn’t know him growing up, but once he became heavyweight champion, I knew him then.

I am a great champion.

I don’t want ever to be champion again.

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

You can’t go to college and develop into an Olympics champion. It takes too much time, too much training.

That feeling is one of the things that keep me going. On July 6, 1998, I became the WCW heavyweight champion of the world!

I am proud to be the first British champion, and headlining MSG is a testament to all the hard work.

For every champion, after you win the belt, you want to defend it as many times as possible.

My younger brother ended up the British chess champion 10 times, a record.

I champion sensibly designed racial affirmative action, not because I have benefited from it personally – though I have. I support it because, on balance, it is conducive to the public good.

My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women’s Singles tennis champion in college.

Junior Dos Santos is one of the best heavyweight fighters of all time, and he has proven it by being a champion. That is something that I want to be in my career, and I understand to achieve that, I have to beat guys like him.

There’s a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.

I would change all my individual trophies for that trophy of World Cup champion.

Rhetorically, President Obama is a champion of bipartisanship. In practice, though, he is almost always its enemy.

Donald Trump is a champion of women. He recognizes that we add to the conversation, and that certainly something as Republican Party chair I’m going to be reaching out to women all across this country.

Donald Trump is a champion for legal immigrants.

I came to this sport to prove to myself and others that I am this big and loud champion.

Sure, Maryse is the Divas Champion, but I find it no coincidence that she supposedly got ‘hurt’ the week after she stole my title.

As I see it, my job has always been to champion the work of the authors I publish.

Everybody wants to get the MITB contract; that usually means at some point they will become champion. That’s a big deal; that’s what everybody strives for.

The biggest motivation for me is becoming a three-division world champion faster than any other boxer, male or female.

My friends would say I’m not the person to go to for tea, a cuddle and sympathy, because I can’t deliver. But if you want something sorted out and need a champion who will stand by your side, that is me.

I mean I had accomplished a goal I had set at 10 years old, I told my mom at that time that I was going to be a wrestler one day, and I was going to be champion, everyone looked at me like I was crazy.

There aren’t 32 of them in the world that I think can be quarterbacks of Super Bowl champion teams. Supply is short.

Vince Russo stuck up for me in WCW when it came down to who should be world champ. From what I’ve heard, there was a meeting, and Russo stood up for me. I would not be six-time world champion if it were not for Vince Russo. I would not even be one-time world champion if it weren’t for Vince Russo.

People treat you one way when you’re champion, but when you’re not the champion, everything changes. People treat you different.

I was born to be champion of the world.

I want wins and losses to matter. That is the point of wrestling, everyone is striving to be a champion and your stature in the company is marked by your win-loss record.

The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it’s filled with reversals. What you think may happen doesn’t happen. A champion is beaten, an unknown becomes a champion.

One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people – men of the stature of Garry Kasparov, the former world champion, who was my part-time coach.

I think a good MP is someone who cares for their community and becomes their champion, which is why I will make my home in any seat I am lucky enough to be selected for. Looks play no part in the equation, what matters is your ideas and connecting them to the electorate.

It’s amazing because people come up to me and say, ‘Chuck, you’re the luckiest guy in the world to be a world karate champion and a movie and TV star.’ When they say this to me, I kind of smile because luck had nothing to do with it; God had everything to do with it.

I want to be the most influential champion, in a positive light. I want to change the world.

To be a champion, you have to learn to handle stress and pressure. But if you’ve prepared mentally and physically, you don’t have to worry.

It might sound strange now from where I’m standing as a world boxing champion, but I harboured serious thoughts, at the age of nine, of putting my whole life into snooker. I remember being fascinated by the game, watching the likes of Steve Davis, and thought I would do it.

I was an All-American in wrestling in high school, was National Champion in Chinese kickboxing in 1999 and have spent a lot of time around professional athletes, which includes my eight-plus years as CEO of a sports nutrition company.

I did a film on Muhammad Ali before he was champion. I was there when he became champion in 1964. I was happy to be able to document the development of a real American hero.

I’m an NXT Superstar and the current NXT Champion.

I want to leave a legacy behind. I want the chance to measure myself against the top guys and to have them bring out that champion within me in the Octagon.

My goal is to be the best champion possible and to do that I have to go against the best.

My cousin Simon Bor, the champion of Los Angeles, convinced me to concentrate on running.

I’m going to be a ‘Chopped’ champion.

The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages.

I’d love to have a lasting impact as far as growing the game. It would be cool to be remembered as a major champion. I’d like to be remembered as a great golfer but also a great person, as far as growing the game and charity work. The whole well-rounded athlete.

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.

We had nothing, no money, when I was young. We lived in a council house. My dad struggled; my mum struggled. But that made me what I am. If I had everything on a plate from the start, maybe I would not have been a champion for 11 years.

I’ve got a winner mentality, the mentality of a champion.

Although I have to say, it’s become a lot harder for me since I won the world series because everyone wants to beat me. For example, bluffing is really tough now, because there’s always someone who calls me on the off-chance that they’ll then be able to say they read a world champion’s bluff.

I would mark 2015 down as the best year of my life. Now, I beat a couple of legends, became World Heavyweight Champion, ascended to the very top of the industry; I got two cats – that was a big deal in 2015.

Tom Brady is Tom Brady. He was a sixth-round draft pick. A lot of people passed up on him. He’s a Super Bowl Champion, Super Bowl MVP. He’s been in a bunch of Super Bowls, and he could care less about all of that. He just cares about winning the next game.

I love talking to interesting people – people like O.J. Simpson, Andretti… I love champions. A champion has something special about him.

What motivated me to dedicate myself to public service for nearly two-thirds of my life was the chance to produce results for those people who entrusted me to be their voice and their champion.

You have to be a champion in all facets of life.

Whaddya know? I’m the first Mexican heavyweight champion of the world.

Of course I want to be champion because that means you’re the best, but I just love wrestling, and if I can have good matches week in and week out, that would make me happy.

This sweet, blessed, God-inspired place called America is a champion that has absorbed some blows. But while we bend, we don’t break. This is no dark hour; this is the dawn before we remember who we are.

When you are challenging for the world title, you’ve got to go into the lion’s den to try and rip that belt away from the champion.

People never believe it when they find out I’m a karate world champion. They don’t see me as the type because I’m small and blonde.

I’m just so proud to be champion and to have the support of my peers and my fans.

Ever since I was 3 years old, I wanted to be WWE champion. I got that belt during WrestleMania 31, and I want it back. It’s what drives me.