Publishers were ever eager for authors to do their own publicity because nobody else was willing to do it for nothing. But then it became clear that if you want somebody to champion the story, there’s nobody better than the person who made it all up.
One person I lost to at 135 was the champion at the time, Dominick Cruz.
When I become champion, you know, I’ll never stop being a firefighter.
I still have to unify my division and basically become the undefeated welterweight champion of the world. I can’t lose. It is more added pressure, but it does make me work harder and keeps me more focused.
I want to be world champion, and that’s why I’ve worked for an entire lifetime to get here.
Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.
When we did ‘The Office,’ no one knew who we were, so it was easy to champion us; you could own us. Once you become successful, people don’t have that any more, so it becomes more polarised. Some people want to champion you, and others want to slag you off. It doesn’t concern me.
I never fought for money. I had a good career and legacy as featherweight champion.
What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.
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!
I’m a big champion of people doing things outside the system.
One and done, Home Run Derby champion. It was a cool experience. I enjoyed it all, but I don’t think I really need to go out there and do it again.
Please don’t call me arrogant, but I’m European champion and I think I’m a special one.
Whether I am the Champion or not is irrelevant to me. I am not attached to it.
Swimming is definitely a big passion that I have, but I was a champion for the butterfly and the free style and stuff. It was a hard decision if I wanted to move to the U.S. to get into music, but I was grateful that I had two choices and many things to do.
The hunger has come back now because I want to be a double Olympic champion. I want to be a legend.
You’d be hard pressed to find a bigger champion of high-speed rail than me when the bond went to voters. I believed in it.
I trained and trained and went up against Kurt, then being a world champion in ’94, and after that I did Tommy’s tour and then my tour and all this stuff and just trying to deal with it all. And now, I’ve just kind of backed off a little.
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.
To finally become world champion after losing out in three previous finals is very satisfying. It shows that if you stick to your goals and work hard, you can achieve them in the end.
A true champion is a true champion. They go fight and win or lose, give it their all.
It’s a dream of mine to be a mixed martial arts world champion.
My brother is much stronger, faster, and when he becomes heavyweight champion again, I will be in his corner. One Klitschko may be gone now, but not the Klitschko name.
Flair was a tricky guy to work with when I worked with Ric. When he was champion, we had much better matches, and the moment the title got switched, we seemed to screw up my match every night.
Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.
Me becoming the first Mexican heavyweight champion of the world, it’s a blessing.
For me to be the first African-born WWE Champion is incredible because now, people who look like myself can look at TV and see on WWE television that anything is possible because I’m doing it.
People treat you one way when you’re champion, but when you’re not the champion, everything changes. People treat you different.
If I’m the champion, the whole UFC division should be ashamed of themselves for a guy that had no damn skills being the champion. They should all just go relocate somewhere.
It’s my biggest goal to become champion. I think it’s everybody’s goal here in the UFC.
It’s true I wasn’t as important at Chelsea. I never demanded that. What I wanted was to be a champion, because few people get that. I succeeded. But the happiness wasn’t there.
I remember my first World Championships. I got zero turns, and I got turned multiple times, and I was still a World Champion.
I was 133-pounder all through college, and that’s probably my natural fighting weight, but if it isn’t broken, why fix it? I’ve been a champion at 145.
I want to be the longest-reigning Raw Women’s Champion. And I’m going to do whatever it takes to make sure that happens.
I was brought into the life of one Bas Rutten in 2001 at a grappling tournament that I was attending to support a friend of mine. I had never met Bas before but, of course, knew who he was: the King of Pancrase, UFC Heavyweight champion, and the commentator with Pride.
I think the best thing I’ve written is a story called ‘The Boxer and the Blonde.’ It’s a piece about Billy Conn, the white would-be heavyweight champion of the world, who lived in Pittsburgh.
All these nice people saying I’m going to be world champion won’t make me any faster, you have to believe it yourself.
I focus on my opponents the same way whether they are a champion or not.
I like having titles. I feel like when I walk out and I don’t have a title, it’s strange. Even in the independent scene before I got to WWE, I was a champion in most of the companies I wrestled for. Being a champion is just what I do.
The best part about being a champion is going out and defending your belt, so that’s what I plan on doing and doing it many times.
Every champion was once a challenger.
If I have a chance to make a larger amount of money in a legacy fight against the No. 1 welterweight in history, it makes sense for me to want that fight. You have a lot of pay-per-view money coming to this company. Why shouldn’t the champion partake in a piece of that pie?
I would like it to be remembered; I would love to be World Champion one day and have my name on the list. That is the real dream – although I am sure it is the dream for pretty much all the Formula 1 drivers.
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.
I’m world champion, so if I’m not ready for another fighter at 154, I don’t deserve to be world champion. That’s the way I look at it and what I firmly believe.
I have stated many times that one of my goals was to become K-1 champion. K-1 is, in our country Holland, very popular, and it’s a big opportunity to become the first person that holds two world titles in two different sports.
I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.
Building a better life for every child is a lot harder than becoming a world champion. Both goals take dedication and commitment.
I want to retire as champion, and I will make that happen.
My dream is to be World Lightweight Champion in the UFC. Have more money than I know what to do with. And have a great life for my kids, grandkids, and everyone in my family.
As a World Champion, it is important that you face the #1 contender. That is what makes it sport and not entertainment; otherwise, what are the girls fighting at 145 lbs. training to work towards if they know they will never be given a title shot, even if they become the best in the world?
I had a taste of a championship in San Antonio, and that was big for me. I cried when we won, and I hadn’t cried in 10 years before that. It felt good, everything I’d been through, to say I was the champion at the end of the year.
I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.
I would change all my individual trophies for that trophy of World Cup champion.
I won Money in the Bank twice, and then I cashed it in to become Champion. I was Champion. No one can ever take that away from me.
I champion the idea of being more conscious. I call it being an active architect of your own life. Building your life like an architect builds a structure.
You wanna champion someone from your city and it blows it up.
A guy like AJ Styles is obviously a great talent and he’s going to go out there and put on a performance that’s befitting of a man who is the World Champion.
1988 Olympic Champion Brian Boitano was famous for doing a Lutz with one arm over his head. And I wanted to build on that.
Before I debuted, it was my goal to make my debut, and afterwards, I aimed at winning champion titles on television music shows, and I hoped for a chance to perform as a soloist.
With persistence, dedication, and especially with the hand of God, I came to be recognized as the best player in the world, world champion, among many other important titles in the history of football.
