Ali was a legend of our sport. For me as a kid, he inspired me to represent myself like a champion in and out of the ring.
It means so much to be European champion again with a personal best and I couldn’t have asked for anything more.
The belt doesn’t represent me; it’s how you deal with people, how you represent yourself as a champion. The belt is a sign of a champion, but what makes a champion is the things I have just said.
A true champion walks off with his head high.
I’m happy that Holloway is the champion. An example, someone who deserved being where he is.
The Internal Revenue Service is the real undefeated heavyweight champion.
Aldo is a hell of a champion.
I don’t want to be like any other boxer. My goal is to be a champion in my own style.
I’m playing right now a role, and the role is called the ‘Heavyweight Champion of the World.’ And it takes all of the time. And I love this role, and it takes a lot of attention for me for the sport, and I just don’t want to lose the title, so that’s why I have to stay focused and not become an actor.
I wanted to set new goals, because if you say, ‘Oh, I’m world champion,’ you don’t grow, and you don’t keep your level.
For me it was a normality having a father who was a world champion. I grew up with that, so it was never extra pressure. And I’ve never felt the need to emerge from his shadow.
For me, I believe George Foreman was a bad example because when he became world heavyweight champion again at 42, that made a lot of fighters think they could also carry on.
I’m the guy who has everything it takes to be heavyweight champion of the world. It’s not just about being great inside the ring: it’s about being able to do great things outside of the ring. Not everyone has that. I love to be out there with the people.
Paul Ryan is the mercenary champion of Hillary Clinton’s – this is Hillary Clinton’s. This came out of the State Department. This Trans Pacific Partnership is going to export our jobs. It’s going to import foreign workers to replace Americans and our jobs.
Any time you get to play a champion like Serena, it’s amazing.
My biggest moment was winning the World Series because everyone in my town was able to feel he was a world champion.
To be a champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well.
My wife is an Olympic gold medalist, WNBA All-Star, ‘Jeopardy!’ champion, and Rhodes Scholarship finalist who was sung to by President Clinton, sung about by Ludacris, and serenaded on ‘Sesame Street’ by a chorus of Muppets.
My first goal was to become world champion and I did that against Ricky Burns at 135. Once I conquered that, I set myself another goal and another goal.
I went to see President Nixon at the White House. It wasn’t difficult to get a meeting because I was heavyweight champion of the world. So I came to Washington and walked around the garden with Nixon, his wife and daughter. I said: I want you to give Ali his licence back. I want to beat him up for you.
Fighting in the UFC means that I’m at the top of the sport, and it means that I’m able to pursue my goal of being a champion in the UFC.
So, I didn’t say we are going to win a lot, but we are going to play like winners, and we’ve got a plan in place to teach our guys how to play like winners and play like a champion.
Outside of America, there are many people, myself included, who champion values that in some senses could be thought of as traditionally American: The idea that everybody is equal; the idea that the rights of women and men should be the same.
The goal of this, I would like to think, for everybody, is to become champion.
I had some friends who were great skiers who I would hang out with, like Jonny Moseley, the Olympic moguls champion, who tried to date my sister once.
It is true – maybe with five or seven points more, I could be five times world champion. But on the other hand, I could have zero world championships, and zero wins or zero podiums, because F1 is an extremely competitive environment. So I just take the positives, and I am happy with my achievements.
I tried all my life to be a champion.
Will I become a UFC champion some day? I know I will.
It is very good to be Olympic champion, but that is not the strongest field.
Growing up, all I did was write about the fact that I’m from where I’m from. I was a big champion of where I was from and Wisconsin in general, and the Midwest.
When you look at me see the father, the awesome dad, the author, film director, business owner, champion, friend, Hufflepuff beast.
For me, the people who doubt me only fuel me to prove them wrong. I want to prove to them that I am better than they think I am and that I deserve to be on top and I deserve to be World Heavyweight Champion.
I want to become double Olympic champion, triple Olympic champion, five-time world medallist.
I’m not like a champion of profanity. I write what I hear, and the characters that I write, that’s how they talk. That’s how I talk a lot of the time. So I’m not trying to advance a social cause.
There are 7 billion people in the world, but there’s only one heavyweight champion of the world, and that’s me.
If I can put the right guy with the right mouthpiece in front of the right opponents, we can build a champion, but he doesn’t really have to beat the best guys; we just have to give him the right matchups.
I don’t want to have an asterisk next to my accomplishments for the rest of my life. I don’t want everybody to say, ‘interim champ’ every time someone says Dustin was the champion.
I always told everyone I’d be heavyweight champion of the world one day. They’d say, ‘All right, whatever.’ I said, ‘OK, you’ll see.’
There was a question in my mind, because I am black, if the fans would accept a black world champion. ‘Bash at the Bash’ was a topsy-turvy night. Finally, when the 1-2-3 came, the fans erupted. All my questions were answered; they really did want to see me win.
Not many people get to say, ‘I’m a WWE champion.’ It’s pretty incredible just to hear those words coming out of my mouth.
I don’t want to lose to an average champion. I want to lose to a great champion.
As the 2016 presidential race kicks off, candidates on both sides of the aisle are promising to stand up for the middle class. Voters deserve to know that anyone who champions Obamacare cannot honestly say she or he is also a champion of middle-class Americans.
Being a champion is not just being a frontrunner and being ahead, but it’s facing adversity.
Johnny Nitro was an homage to Eric Bischoff, who, I was his apprentice at the time. I liked that name. Basically, Vince McMahon thought that ‘Nitro’ reminded him of WCW, and when I became the ECW Champion, like, he had a couple times mentioned to me, ‘If you’re going to be a real star, you need a real name.’
I’ve been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.
The Jens Pulver fight was one that was on a massive level: I was a world champion fighting a former world champion, and a guy that I looked up to. We had a great fight.
The UFC want me as their champion. The welterweight division needs me as its champion. It’s been static for too long. I’ll win the title, defend it a couple of times, and then move up to middleweight.
This Martina Navratilova is a real champion, but with the proper training, I can make miracles happen.
My sister is an amazing champion; she’s the Fearless Champion, and I couldn’t be more proud to be by her side.
From 15 or 16, I always wanted to be an Olympic champion, but I don’t think you ever believe it until it actually happens.
My goal is to be the women’s champion, to main event on a regular basis, to be at ‘WrestleMania.’
I’m interested to work with Lucha Underground and as champion that would put me in the mix to work with them.
Take the feeling of hunger out of your gut, and you’re no longer a champion.
It’s like a dream come true, coming to the Olympic trails and leaving being the champion.
Wilder is not a big draw in the U.S. He maybe sells 5,000 to 10,000 tickets when he’s fighting in his own town for the heavyweight champion.
Once you become an Olympic champion, you are expected to win all the time.
It was a pleasure to share the court with Serena; she’s such a champion.
I used to trapshoot. I was actually a junior national champion. My parents are trapshooters, so I’m more into target stuff.
Serena Williams is the ultimate champion. She knows what it takes to get to the top.
Trejo is one of the oldest boxing gyms in Cuba; it’s outdoor, and every great champion the country has produced has passed through and was forged in the open air.
Of course my goal is to be the champion, and of course I want revenge with Amanda because I feel much stronger, and I know next time it will be a totally different result of the fight.
I think titles are important to your career. Whether you reign as champion for a long time or just have it for the time being, to be part of a company and be their champion is always good to have on your resume.
I made a prediction when I was 11 that I would be world champion by the time I was 21, and I did it.
The goal of higher education should be to champion the airing of all honest viewpoints. Nothing less is acceptable.
