A Quote by Forrest Griffin
Winning the belt is one thing. But you're not really a champion until you defend it.
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I'm a champion, I have to defend this belt.
I'm here at Madison Square Garden as world champion and have a world champion's mentality, the pressures on to defend my belt - this is what champions do.
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.
For every champion, after you win the belt, you want to defend it as many times as possible.
I'm not saying Gustafsson isn't a champion. He's not the champion that I am. He's not a champion at all. I've won the belt seven times. He got tapped out by Phil Davis and lost to me fair and square. This guy gets so much praise. Having a close fight with me was the greatest thing he's ever done.
This is what champions do: champions defend. They always say you're not a champion until you defend your title.
In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.
A lot of people think you're not the champion until you defend it one time.
I'm proud to be British champion, and I'll defend it until I can get a fight for a world title.
The destination is the belt, but you never arrive at just the belt. You're always on the way to something else. You never truly arrive anywhere. But winning the belt, it's a nice pit stop.
I am not going to be one of these guys who doesn't defend his belt. I am going to defend my belt actively.
I'm a champion and I fight like a champion with or without that belt.
I don't need a belt to make me. I make the belt. I feel great and that's all that matters. I'm still heavyweight champion of the world.
If you're very good, that can sometimes actually hurt you. How? Well, the promoter might say, man, he's going to come over here and beat our champion and will raise his price or will never come back and defend the belt.
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.
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.
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