I’m trying to champion the naturalist’s worldview and show it’s not as heathen as most religious people would make it out to be.
I go to bed dreaming, thinking that I want to be the best in the octagon and be a champion.
Originals are nonconformists, people who not only have new ideas but take action to champion them. They are people who stand out and speak up. Originals drive creativity and change in the world. They’re the people you want to bet on.
Ultimately you play the game to be the champion, to be remembered.
I have always wanted to be European champion, because it is a fantastic title and so many great boxers have held the belt over the years.
By 2002 we might be championship challengers. But I want to race fast. I want to become world champion myself.
You can’t be a champion and look like a bum. You have to look, and be, the part. It’s not just because it’s required of your job, but is important to how you hold yourself.
Maybe I wish I could be out there on the big occasions playing like I did at my peak, but I certainly don’t miss the six and seven hours a day practice that went hand in hand with being world champion in the nineties – or losing to guys knowing that it would never have happened when I was at my best.
My goals in the future is to not just be in Formula 1. I want to be really successful, World Champion, though I guess this is like everyone! But that is what I’m targeting.
I’m the champion because I’m the best in every area.
I always wanted to be Olympic champion and do clean programs.
Carl Froch is a strong, seasoned world champion and there’s no quit in him.
I’m the people’s champion.
Martin Luther King didn’t know he was going to have a day named after him; Muhammad Ali didn’t know he was going to be the people’s champion. He was doing what he was doing because it was right.
‘Ali’ is the story of a lower middle-class golfer who becomes a champion. I find the game very interesting and would like to continue playing it regularly after the movie is wrapped up.
My purpose is to unite people, to bring us together. And above all, to be a champion for justice and a vehement opponent of oppression and justice.
I didn’t have to win, and winning wasn’t important to me. Being world champion wasn’t important to me. What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.
I want to be Universal Champion.
I never expected to compete at home in a UCI women’s race – let alone as world champion.
I don’t think of myself as the champion too often, honestly.
I’m so proud, and it feels brilliant to be a world champion.
The only reason I want to climb up the rankings – beating the champion and beating guys in the top five – those are the guys that get the endorsements and get the most money and get paid the most. That’s the only reason why.
Upon awakening in the morning, I wondered if the proceedings of the night before had been a dream. It was hard to believe that I was the world’s heavyweight champion.
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.
What I did at the start of each season, regardless if I was coming back as the champion, was run indoors and take forward steps from the first race.
My parents can’t always travel with me because my little brother is a world champion on dirt bikes.
A minister is supposed to be there to remind his permanent officials that they work for the rest of us. If, instead, he becomes the cabinet champion and public spokesman for his department, democracy is vitiated.
I tell you very openly: it’s much easier to be the heavyweight champion of the world than to be the mayor of Kiev.
As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.
I do Thai boxing Mondays, jujitsu Tuesdays and Thursdays, and Wednesdays I do boxing with Mark – he was a world champion at one point. I absolutely love it. I actually have a punching bag outside in my garden. I’m obsessed with working out. I eat like a pig, so it kind of makes up for that.
To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.
I was champion, off and on, for quite a few years, and I never missed one title match from an injury. I got hurt lots of times, but the reality is you’ve got so much pinned on you and so much tied onto you, the company and your peers can’t afford for you to get hurt.
I want to take this time to thank Daniel Cormier for being my biggest rival and motivator. He has absolutely no reason to hang his head. He has been a model champion, a model husband, a model father, a teammate, a leader, and I aspire to be a lot more like that man, because he’s an amazing human being.
Being the longest-reigning champion isn’t that big a deal to me because records are made to be broken.
It’s everyone’s goal to be a champion and I’m no different.
I went from being a guy who was sparingly being used on television to being the World Heavyweight Champion and the focus of a lot of the storylines on Smackdown.
You’re either a champion or you’re not a champion.
I’m a champion, I have to defend this belt.
I’m a person who believes that if a team that’s producing a champion and producing contenders in that same division, then the coaches should be proud of that and pat themselves on the back because they’re really creating a dynasty, so that’s the way I take it.
I ran into a couple of guys who were boxers. They talked me into working out at their gym. I became obsessed with boxing and the idea of becoming a champion.
My ultimate dream is just to become world champion, and not only once. So that’s my dream, and it doesn’t matter with which team it is.
My old dance teacher, Jimmy Wilde, a former European ballroom dancing champion, was so sophisticated.
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.
Joe Frazier was the epitome of a champion. I mean, here is a guy who was total old school, blue collar, who would fight anybody. You know, he didn’t tell you he was the best fighter pound for pound.
It always hurts a bit to pick the ‘wrong one’ in a race as big as the Champion Hurdle, and then, to make matters worse, you go and get beat by the horse you rejected.
I know who I am. I’m a former world champion.
I never really thought about the fact I wasn’t world champion. It’s all fake, so having a belt really means having extra weight in your luggage.
Mesut is a player that has been through a lot in his career through loads of ups and downs, but most of all he’s a born champion and he’s a player who has so many records in the world of football, so he’s a player that is an example for everyone.
I don’t want to go back to WWE and burn out within four or five months, and having another run as TNA world champion would feel just as good.
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.
I want to be a champion.
I’d like to be a tag titleholder, I’d like to be the WWE champion, but more than anything, I want to make guys leaders.
Honestly, I’ve always loved having tag teams since I was little, so I’ve always kind of been focused on wanting to be a tag team champion.
Canelo’s the big name, but I am the champion going in… I took this fight. I’m not in a situation where I have nothing to lose in this fight. I’ve got a title to lose.
Bitumen, the new national staple, is redefining the character and destiny of Canada. Rapid development of the tar sands has created a foreign policy that favours the export of bitumen to the United States and lax immigration standards that champion the import of global bitumen workers.
I believe I have the attitude of a champion and a winner, and I’m not apologetic for it.
Me, Shinsuke Nakamura, and Lyoto Machida, former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion, all shared a two-bedroom apartment together.
I am thankful for this title of champion emeritus and proud I never lost my title.
I don’t champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them.
I made my debut on October 10, 2008, so it’ll be seven years to the day that I could become world champion. That’s a massive night to be crowned.
If you want to be that world champion, you have to be willing to beat anybody on this planet – no strings attached.
It takes a lot of discipline to become and stay champion. It also takes a lot of discipline to stop while still feeling that you’re in the best physical and mental shape of your life, but I’ve always planned to leave the sport when I’m at the top and in good health.
Now I can say I’m a Grand Slam champion, and it sounds really crazy.
I volunteered to join Mr. Trump’s campaign because he is a champion of working families, not Washington-Wall Street elites.
