When I started off riding, you dream about being champion jockey. Then I wanted to be champion jockey again. Then I wanted to ride 200 winners in a season. Then, when there was a chance of riding more winners than Richard Dunwoody, that was my goal.
I want to be a champion for a long time, and I want to take the least amount of punishment possible doing so.
As long as I fight for myself, I will stay champion.
When I chose athletics, I knew I wanted to be Olympic champion, and now I have done it in London.
I believe I’m a real champion for women.
There’s a lot of ways to win a belt, but taking it from a champion is very important to me.
The days of the heavyweight champion as civil rights leader are long gone. You think you’d see Ali rolling around on the floor of an ESPN Zone? I don’t think so.
We don’t need more of the same, typical politicians fighting for themselves and for special interests. We need someone to believe in our small-business owners again and someone to champion those folks who play by the rules.
HBO has been incredible and a huge champion of my work, my passions, and has been a great home for my talent, I feel.
I think I could have become an outstanding professional baseball player, but I don’t think I could have reached the heights that I have in football – being one of the very top players in the game, being a world champion.
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.
In sports, you simply aren’t considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.
I want to be the light heavyweight champion of the world.
Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.
We’d always said boxers shouldn’t lift weights. Now I realize some champion boxer started that rumor. I noticed if I did weights a couple of times a week, I would be able to hit that jab a lot longer. After sparring, everybody’s gone, and I sneak into the weight room. Spend 40 minutes in there lifting weights.
I’d like to go to NXT, be NXT Champion.
If I become a European champion, I don’t care whether I have absolute recognition or not.
No one expected me to become a champion.
I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’
When I was 14, I told my careers adviser that I was going to be a world champion boxer. Of course she laughed.
That generic outlook of what a ‘WWE champion’ should be is a joke to me. The casual fan walks in and expects to see a guy in short trunks with abs and a shaven body. I do not believe in that.
My dream would be fighting against whoever the WWE World Heavyweight Champion was at WrestleMania.
People said I didn’t deserve to be World Champion, but I think I’ve proved it.
I was born in 1970. In 2002, I became a world champion. I was captain. I had the honor of receiving the World Cup Trophy from no less than whom? Pele! Man! If I say any more I’ll cry. It’s really emotional!
When I created Mary for the ‘Batgirl’ issue of ‘Night of the Owls,’ there was a lot of excitement at DC. Scott Snyder in particular was a champion for the character, bless him.
I came to the UFC to fight with top-level fighters and become the undisputed, undefeated champion. This is my goal.
I want to be the IC Champion. I want to be the U.S. Champion. I want to be the tag team champion. I want to hold all the championships.
What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win.
Since I was a boy of five or six, I had it in my mind I would be a world boxing champion.
My father is Arnold Schwarzenegger, the governor of California, and yes, he was the Terminator! He is also a former Mr. Universe and Mr. Olympia, two titles he earned as a champion bodybuilder.
But research confirms that both Republican and Democratic women are more likely than their male counterparts to initiate and fight for bills that champion social justice, protect the environment, advocate for families, and promote nonviolent conflict resolution.
When you talk about somebody being your world champion, you couldn’t ask for a better human being than Daniel Cormier.
Muhammad Ali meant everything to me. He inspired me to box after watching re-runs of him winning a gold medal in the Olympics and being a world champion.
I’ve always liked Dzeko – he’s a champion.
When you start fighting, when your dream is to be the champion of the world, when you accomplish that, you don’t feel lost. It doesn’t hinder you. It only helps.
It’s harder to be a dad than an Olympic champion.
When you start boxing when you’re 7 years old, that’s your dream, to become world champion, and after that you want to become something bigger than world champion.
I always wanted to be the champion, and I had belief in myself that I could achieve it. But along the way, of course, you’ve also got to be a realist. You lose a couple of fights here and there, and you think maybe it’s not going to happen.
I hope that a lot of the men and women who feel forgotten in this country really see that they have in me a champion.
Cleveland, we’ve got a champion, baby!
In boxing, Mike Tyson fascinates me. The attitude and confidence that he could not be beaten when he was heavyweight champion of the world was interesting. He came across as very mild-mannered, and much of what he said made sense.
Growing up, at high school, we all used to wear Champion garments, which, in America, are standard-issue gym uniforms.
The political hero is not like the sports champion or matinee idol or daring inventor; like the war hero, he is born only of tragedy.
From my mom telling me ‘no’ to now telling everyone I’m the champion, and she’s so proud of me, and to prove to a lot of people – who didn’t believe in me, who didn’t think I was going to be here – that I’m here, and I did it. It’s been a roller coaster of emotions; it’s amazing.
I had a dream as a young boy to be Olympic champion in boxing, and that’s what I focused on with my father – making it a reality.
Being the United States champion, it makes me elevate the title even more because, at the end of the day, that is what I wanna do. I wanna elevate the title, whether it be the world championship, the universal championship, any of these titles.
It took me 11 years to get a shot at the WWE championship; not just to win it, but just to get a shot, but luckily I was able to capitalize on that and become WWE champion, but if I had quit I wouldn’t have been in that position.
When I picked athletics, I knew I wanted to be an Olympic champion.
I was loving being the champion, and I wasn’t listening to my body. I almost felt like I was untouchable in a way – that I could just keep going and everything would be OK.
I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.
We all want to be champion.
As the World Champion, every day is pretty much like Valentine’s Day for me – as far as hooking up with the ladies.
My ambition is to one day be in Formula 1 and hopefully become world champion.
I want to be a champion for the people I have fought for all my life – regular people.
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.
No matter what industry you’re in, there will be naysayers. So you have to be your own champion.
I’m really excited about my future plans, as I’m doing things differently and currently training like a Trojan in pursuit of becoming heavyweight champion of the world.
I have no desire to leave New Day. We can pursue a singles title while being together. Besides, if you have two friends willing to help you, that’s gonna make it easier for you to become a singles champion.
I want to be the middleweight champion.
I’m not running from anyone, I’m the champion and I can choose who I’m going to fight.
When I first went to Fitzroy Lodge, I said I was going to be heavyweight champion of the world and retire when I was 30. This is when I was 10.
Jens Pulver was a former UFC champion. He’s a guy who I followed and looked up to. It was my first big fight in the Sacramento arena.
We always called ourselves Divas. I came in through Diva Search. I was a Divas Champion. I always felt like it had this negative feeling to it because a Diva is so much more high maintenance, and that’s the last thing we women wrestlers are.
Whatever work I have done in a very short span of time, like ‘Balika Vadhu,’ ‘Kitchen Champion 4,’ ‘Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa,’ and ‘Bigg Boss 7,’ has been great for me.
Hopefully I can become the Babe Ruth of the World Wrestling Federation and be the champion at the same time.
Accenture has long been a champion of inclusion and diversity and, specifically, gender balance at every level of our organization, including our board of directors.
This is what champions do: champions defend. They always say you’re not a champion until you defend your title.
