I never told my parents that I was doing boxing. They only came to know after I became state champion and my name and picture came in the newspaper.
People still look at me as the champion and that’s very important to me.
Crossing the line and being world champion, I’ve always dreamt about it, and now I’ve done it. It’s quite a surreal feeling, but obviously very special.
In 1973 I became heavyweight champion of the world with 38 victories, no defeats as a professional. You get to a point where you think you cannot lose. I felt like I had the greatest power with my fists, I was the strongest man in the world.
I love being the NXT Women’s Champion.
The heavyweight championship of the world was the most coveted title in sports. Everyone knew who the heavyweight champion was. And not only when it was Muhammad Ali or Rocky Marciano: they knew when it was Ingemar Johansson.
The thing that I champion is sustainability. My terror is that suddenly we see it as a luxury, not an essential. That’s a danger.
I want people to say that Jack Swagger/Jake Hager is a world champion in MMA and in pro wrestling.
Here’s why I cannot vote for Rudy Giuliani. He’s pro-abortion. He’s never repudiated gay marriage in New York City or at least the civil unions in New York City. He’s called a champion of gay rights. Rudy is opposed to school choice. He’s in favor of open borders.
It is my goal to be world champion.
For your friends and family, you are always a champion, but for the media and sponsors, not until you show a spark. Making a champ is more important than celebrating one. I want to be there for youngsters and help them do their best.
All I know is that Stipe gave me inspiration because if Stipe can be that UFC champion, and they actually gave him a title shot, then I’m like, ‘Ah, I do have a chance.’
Being a world champion is something I’m already proud of and can take for the rest of my life.
I am the Olympic, World, Commonwealth, and European champion now, and I hope that’s enough for people to accept that I am a half-decent British athlete.
Daniel Cormier has been a model champion. He will be a champion for the rest of his life.
I have always maintained that Iggy Pop is the Heavyweight Champion of Rock & Roll.
For a long time, I felt like my identity was to fight. My identity was to be a world champion. That almost defined me.
I idolised former sprint and hurdling champion Colin Jackson.
I’m a champion for personal differences. I have no sympathy for drug companies that can’t figure out how to make personalized medicine. We could generalize that to ‘All society should be much more personalized.’
At the end of the day, I could go back to getting sixth or seventh place and being a mediocre skater, or I could be a champion. I want to be a champion.
I’ve been thinking about disowning some of my genes lately. I have a few healthy, happy, long-living optimists in my family tree – most of them fans of Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy, a major champion of positive thinking. But I’ve got plenty of ancestors who played out more tortured hands.
I go where the revolution is, and the revolution is Ron Paul. Ron Paul is a champion of the Constitution. He’s about getting rid of the Federal Reserve and shrinking federal government.
Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.
Because I was a champion swimmer in Canada, they’re always trying to get me in the water in movies! I’ve drawn the line now with this film. No more water!
The reason Tommaso Ciampa is NXT champion is because of me. I admitted that, and it’s my mistake to fix.
Honestly, I know rematches are always nice, but me beating the champion of my weight class in a competitive fight is nice, too.
I was always the champion and will always be as long as I’m in the featherweight division.
I’m happy to be part of the UFC and I’m happy to be the first Polish champion and the first European women’s champion.
When you become a world champion and you defend your title for five or six years, and you have fifteen defences of your title, and you round up most of the other belts – and you feel you’re the best of your generation at the time – nobody can take that away from you.
My mother was this force of nature when it came to both communication with people and the whole of learning music. She’s a champion.
To my mind ClickThings, and John Underwood are world champion caliber, and I am delighted to have the opportunity to partner with them.
There is a world of difference between being a reality TV star and a world champion boxer.
I want to be a champion, and win races as much as I can and elevate my platforms and become an icon in the sport. It’s going to take a lot of hard work and determination from my camp and for myself to get to where we need to be. I’m excited about the journey.
Ali and I have become friends over the years. I was on a plane with him one time when he was the champion.
I want to be a champion. I want to be a long-reigning featherweight champion. I want to be known in the history books: my name everywhere as a champion. And then, later on in my career, when I start getting good, then I can start doing the exhibition matches for money and stuff.
We need to empower women. Give women a voice in the decision-making process. Give women a political voice where they can champion, for their own welfare. And, of course, for us. United Nations – organizations, agencies – we need to do our part.
Only one champion stands at the end of the year, so just making the playoffs isn’t enough.
I was world’s champion in every aspect of the life. Whether it was sitting in a steak house eating a steak or getting onto the edge of the ring with two or three people standing there, it was all the same to me. I was world’s champion, and for that reason, I was world’s champion.
A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
He’s been doing this a long time. Hats off to a champion, Carlos Condit.
I am very glad not only to complete the grand slam, but to become Olympic champion alone makes me happy.
It’s not my place to compare myself to greats like Tyson, Frazier or men like that. But I would look at a fighter like Evander Holyfield. He’s a great heavyweight who worked his way up through the weight classes to become champion and had to beat bigger men along the way.
He has been a world champion – great for him – but listen, whenever Lennox Lewis wants to come out of retirement, I’m here waiting for him because I’m the best British fighter to come out of these shores.
I would like to champion diverse forms like graphic novels and works told in verse and diverse writers and illustrators and diverse authors as well.
I’m a worrier, an overthinker, and – if it’s your type of thing – a 3x WNBA champion.
There was originally no plan in place for me to become WWE champion. It felt like I became the No. 1 contender out of nowhere. I call what I did forcing the results. I wasn’t happy with my position. I was putting in the work, but I wasn’t getting the results. I was going to force the result no matter what the cost.
