I want our party to step up its efforts to reflect and champion the concerns of everybody who has reached the second half of their lives.
I have no problem with Brock Lesnar being a part-timer, because he’s earned that spot. He’s a multiple time champion in WWE, a former UFC Champion, NCAA amateur wrestling champion, so his accolades speak for themselves.
The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.
We champion freedom – but Brexit will mean the next generation is less free to live, work and love across Europe.
My dad was a three-time world heavyweight champion, so I want to be a three-time world heavyweight champion.
I’ve been champion of every organization that I’ve worked for. I’m something extraordinary.
They should just put ‘two’ beside everybody’s name, you know? Because there’s only No. 1 guy out there, and that’s the champion.
I have adapted and feel comfortable in the middle, but I am a world and European champion at right back.
Moorcock’s interlinked ‘Eternal Champion’ series is a constant source of enjoyment. Of its tragic hero incarnations, my favourite is ‘Elric of Melnibone,’ and the best book has to be ‘Stormbringer.’ And as for that other sword, Excalibur? Pah! Use it to spread your butter.
A champion’s thirst for titles should be insatiable.
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.
Being champion, there’s a different mindset.
When I do become the champion, I’ll still be a fire fighter.
Austin Aries is a guy that has been the longest-reigning ‘X Division’ champion, has proven himself all over the world before he even got to TNA, and is well-respected in the industry, so I think he’s a guy to look out for and I look forward to working with.
That was my biggest dream, to one day become champion in MMA and boxing. That is my biggest dream.
My dream as a child was being a world champion.
I’ve always been working just to be a world champion and it’s a dream come true.
In the 1950s, when I was hanging around Sullivan’s Gym and the Gramercy Gym, there were fixed fights. Mob guys like Frankie Carbo and Blinky Palermo had taken over the sport; one lightweight champion loaned his title to others at least twice; the welterweight division was a slag heap.
All my life, I wanted to be champion.
The first thing I saw was that Brett Rogers had his way very quickly – in 20 seconds – with a UFC champion, Andrei Arlovski.
When I won the NXT women’s title from Natalya at Full Sail, becoming the second-ever woman’s champion for NXT, that’s when I knew, ‘Okay, I’m doing the right thing,’ and that I could do this.
I never put it to where I say, ‘I’m just this big pay-per-view star,’ or ‘I wanna be the No. 1 pay-per-view star that got all the ratings.’ No, I was just like, ‘I’m gonna be a world champion. That’s what I’m gonna be.’
Never in my wildest dreams did I set the goal to be the longest-reigning tag-team champion.
The goal is to be heavyweight champion of the world.
I think it was just me who thought I could be Olympic champion. I’ve been telling myself that, and I did that.
It is time to stand strong for the American people. It is time to champion the interests of those constantly neglected on the question of immigration: the men and women and children we represent – the citizens of this country to whom we owe our ultimate allegiance.
Getting released in 2014 was the best thing that happened to me because I got to regain my focus, regain my pride, and come back as the best-conditioned athlete there is in WWE, which ultimately led me to become the single greatest WWE champion.
I want to be World Heavyweight Champion, but unfortunately, that didn’t happen.
My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a hard relationship with my dad, he became a father figure to me.
I like being the people’s champion when it comes to dining.
I became the European amateur champion in Liverpool back in 2008. I visited the Beatles museum, and after the final, I went to a drum and bass disco.
Everything I do is for my parents, None of this matters without them. If it weren’t for them, I wouldn’t be here… If it wasn’t for them, if it wasn’t for the structure and the backbone that I have, I wouldn’t be able to mess up and keep coming back and sit in front of you as a world champion.
When I started fighting I’ve always thought about being a UFC champion.
Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.
Before I was a champion, I failed, and I was afraid.
I want the Intercontinental title to be seen as more than just a ‘mid-card belt.’ The Intercontinental Champion used to be seen as a threat to the WWE Champion. My goal is to return the Intercontinental Championship to that level of importance.
I’ve been Intercontinental Champion lots of times, Television Champion. One of my favorites has been the Hardcore Championship because it reflected my favorite style, and I feel that the X Division belt does that, too.
A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol.
As an Olympic champion gymnast, I have always stayed involved in my sport.
I believe in myself. I want to be a fighter. I want to be heavyweight champion of the world.
To be a great champion, you have to believe that you are the best, and if you aren’t, then you have to act as though you are.
I’ve been part of so many pay-per-views, and I’ve been in the ring with John Cena and Dean Ambrose and Randy Orton and Chris Jericho and Roman Reigns… all the top names. And I’ve been Intercontinental champion twice.
When I auditioned for ‘Bye Bye Birdie’ on Broadway, Gower Champion said, ‘You’ve got the job!’ I said, ‘Mr. Champion, I can’t dance.’ He said, ‘We’ll teach you what you need to know.’
It’s good that the first half of the speech emphasized freedom, because George W. Bush has been the global champion for freedom. As he said, if we don’t fight tyranny it will not leave us alone in peace.
I married the reigning mustache champion.
At a certain point, when I let go and was done – when I stopped and could say I was blessed and thankful to be a champion, when I finally enjoyed life from this different perspective – that’s when I healed. Letting go healed me.
Being the first-ever three-time ROH world champion is pretty surreal.
Whether I ever become WWE champion in my career, I’m proud of what I’ve done.
I believe that I will be the WWE World Champion one day. I know that a lot of people say that; it’s easy to say. If I were to go away without accomplishing that task, I would feel unfulfilled, to be completely honest.
My victory against Venus was the most special. She’s is a multi grand slam champion; her sister is Serena Williams. I was like, ‘What is going on?’ I broke her five times in a row. She is one of the best servers in the game.
It is not normal that one team dominates for 20 years in a row as the champion.
I’m going to be fighting to rebuild the Democratic party no matter what. I’m going to be fighting to make sure the Democratic party is known among working people that we are their champion no matter what.
An American champion, obviously being here in the states, is something that we all look at with the U.S. Open. But golf is played all over the world, and there are so many great golfers from other countries, and we’re lucky enough that this is our home base to be able to play out of.
Once you’re a NASCAR champion, you’re kind of in another elite division instead of just being a competitor or a race winner.
President Obama is highly concerned with education. He’s a champion on early-childhood development strategies. So I like the work he’s doing, and I support it, and I realise that he’s one of very few political leaders around the world that actually has early-childhood development strategise at the top of his agenda.
I love to champion some of the hardworking actors where, it’s been said to me, they don’t bring money. But to me, they bring everything. They bring their wonderful selves.
It’s not been a bad life, and I do know that I could never have been a world champion. All I ever wanted to do was be the best I could with what I had, which wasn’t very much, really. And that’s what I think I did.
I’d love to become Intercontinental Champion.
I’d tell you whose brand was tainted is Donald Trump. I mean, this guy was tainted every kind of way you could imagine. I mean, no way in the world that Donald Trump is a champion of working people.
I make Hulk Hogan to be Hulkamania. Because I was a champion before him, I lost my belt to him.
Retiring as the champion and being the only athlete to ever do that, I think goals like that are set in the mind. I want to make that happen.
To be a world champion from Oklahoma is something that really pushes me.
Basically my whole life revolves around soccer. I don’t take many vacations. Everything just gets put on the back burner because of my training. I miss out on a lot of weddings and family functions. But at the end of the day, I’m sitting here as a world champion, and it feels pretty good.
