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.'
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.
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.
They should just put 'two' beside everybody's name, you know? Because there's only No. 1 guy out there, and that's the champion.
Every champion golfer comes to Augusta imbued with a towering source of inspiration. It's a solitary journey, but it's one that no player... makes alone.
Growing up, I would never have thought that I'd be a double Olympic champion, with a lovely home and beautiful kids.
To become a champion requires a good mental attitude toward preparation. You have to accept the most tedious task with pleasure.
At some point of my life I've always fantasized that I'd be a boxing champion of the 160-pound division. Or a chef, I love cooking.
What people forget is that no one pays you to go and be a champion for democracy. A girl's got to make rent. I didn't have a job for two years.
From a young age, people have been touting me as a future world champion and it's nice to get that out of the way.
Brodie Lee would be a match I'd love to have. When he was the TNT Champion, I was sort of hoping to work my way up to that level.
I am a believer in the rights of the unborn and the goodness of every life, and I have promised that, as governor, I will champion those values.
I know deep down I'm destined to be a world champion and maybe it's to be attained in the most prestigious division in the UFC at welterweight.
Being a champion and staying that way is the most difficult thing to deal with. Everyone sees you as a target. They want to bring you down.
I became the first ever Euro-continental champion in WWF history. Well, besides D-Lo Brown, but he doesn't count.
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 believe I'm destined to be a world champion and I'm getting closer to what I want. Part of it is developing a championship mentality and I feel I have that now.
To win like that, in Scottish kit, in the U.K., beating the Olympic champion, hearing Scotland the Brave on the podium, I was very emotional.
I'm a Mancunian born and bred and I feel I'm no different to the man in the crowd and it's nice to reward them. I want to become a great champion.
I'm chasing gold. And whatever fight can get me closer to being a world champion, those are the fights that I want.
I happen to be a three-time former WWF Champion and a hardcore legend, and I never had my own dressing room.
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.
Those who need a champion cannot afford compromise, in the face of forces that are powerful, persistent and pernicious and greedy.
A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol.
Seeing myself as a champion in WWE is something I've seen from the first day I stepped into the Universe and the realm of the company.
I left home when I was 13. When I was 15, I was living in a youth hostel, and I was the 167-pound amateur wrestling champion.
My heart was bursting with pride the night I fought Steve Robinson in Wales, and I made the champion look like the challenger.
It was priceless. Being the UFC champion and having my kids in the Octagon, my wife, them holding the belt. That was like a movie.
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.
Classic English liberalism of the sort that 'The Economist' was founded to champion and still espouses is about open societies and free markets.
You have to bear in mind that Mr. Autry's favorite horse was named Champion. He ain't ever had one called Runner Up.
What was great about Fischer is that when he became world champion is that chess was being covered everywhere. It was in all the major newspapers, it was on TV.
Superman! Champion of the oppressed. The physical marvel who had sworn to devote his existence to helping those in need.
... America has amnesia. ... Certainly, there is a passion for memory loss in American thought. ... Americans may be the world champion forgetters.
There's no better way to start a year than to become the first-ever three-time ROH World Champion.
I like the thought of gaining revenge over WBC light-heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson, who beat me in 2013.
It is a burden because I get asked about my father all the time. I just need to accept that he was a champion before me.
I'm going to be world champion and have a belt, and people will correctly be able to say I was the best instead of I was very good.
Craig Sager's amazing attitude was truly inspirational. He was a champion during his battle, fighting every day with grace and humor.
I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'
My most difficult opponent is myself. When I am playing I often involuntarily make a world champion out of a candidate master.
Who am I just to give up on track? This is something I've dreamed about since I was 9 years old, being an Olympic champion.
By no means because I am a World Champion will I ever stop learning and that’s the biggest thing that’s difficult for someone to see.
Do you think a champion is made out of thin air? It’s through the hardships you endure that you’ll gain real strength.
I wanted to be a world champion of some sorts since I got into the industry, when I was 15 years old, and I was able to do that.
I believe a champion wins in his mind first, then plays the game, not the other way around.
Being a champion opens lots of doors—I'd like to get a real estate license, maybe sell insurance.
The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches.
I am very glad not only to complete the grand slam, but to become Olympic champion alone makes me happy.
Once you're a NASCAR champion, you're kind of in another elite division instead of just being a competitor or a race winner.
Everyone wants to be a world champion, but when you take that first punch it will tell you if you really want to be in this sport or not. For me, there was no doubt.
[Tom Cotton] has been an absolute champion of the idea of getting rid of Obamacare, scrapping the Affordable Care Act.
A lot of people say things because I wasn't born here, but in my heart, I know that I am a true Puerto Rican champion.
I love all the attention I've got since becoming Olympic champion and being asked to go to different events, but boxing is what I do.
Every champion has discovered that pain is seasonal. It will pass... Don't be discouraged by it. A New Day is about to dawn in your life!
The overwhelming majority of NFL owners are white, and when they do choose to get involved in politics, they usually champion conservative causes.
Anybody can quit. Only a real champion and a person of character and strength can keep going and refuse to give up.
If you're going to play a champion athlete, people expect you to look a certain way, and you also have to have the stamina to be able to continue to perform.
I volunteered to join Mr. Trump's campaign because he is a champion of working families, not Washington-Wall Street elites.
How could the USA champion individual freedom in the world generally while denying it to an important minority in its own country.
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