I train the same way as I've always trained, even before I was champion. That's the difference, I train like a challenger.
My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a hard relationship with my dad, he became a father figure to me.
People gotta realize as a fighter you want to become a champion because you get paid way more money. So the belt is very intriguing for that reason.
The US government should be the champion for the internet, not a threat. They need to be much more transparent about what they're doing, or otherwise people will believe the worst.
I think I've already got the main thing I've always wanted, which is to be somebody, to have an identify. I'm Althea Gibson, the tennis champion. I hope it makes me happy.
To be ECW champion is something that I take very, very seriously.
Sport has long occupied a special place in the hearts of Australians, and today the nation welcomes a new champion to the pantheon. Cadel Evans, cyclist extraordinaire.
Goliath was a champion, a monster who had never been beaten, and then this young guy, David, came forward, a child who believed in God and did it.
I want to make history and be the first-ever SmackDown Women's Champion, and whatever I have to do to make that happen, I'm going to do it.
To be a champion in the UFC, you have to be an elite, high-level, effective, professional kickboxer. You have to be the best of the best on your feet.
A true champion knows how to overcome doubts and manage those doubts and turn them into motivation.
I've been trained by a two-time world champion kickboxer, who's local to where I come from, and who is really just there to keep me fit and healthy while I'm shooting.
I think everyone deserves their place in this sport, and Bisping has been around, and he's fought hard and deserves to be the champion.
On Rafael Nadal: Every point he plays is like match point. That's why he's the champion right now.
My wrestling dream was to become a Division I national champion. That was my No. 1 dream - not Olympics, not money. Just winning that tournament.
Look, I never enjoy risking my tournament life with a marginal hand, but if you want to be a poker champion, that's exactly what needs to be done. Just don't do it too often!
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.
Nick Aldis is a great champion. He looks like a professional athlete. He dresses like one. He carries it well.
A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo.
I've always been a big champion of saying what we do today creates tomorrow. When you're young, you don't realise all of this stuff, and from an early age I was very conscious of what was going on in my environment.
Fighting against undefeated IBF 154-pound champion Marie-Eve Dicaire continues my quest to fight the very best in women's boxing.
The Catholic Church [with Pope John Paul II] has lost its shepherd. The world has lost a champion of human freedom.
Finishing overall champion at the World Series in both the individual and synchro events has given me great confidence and I'm pleased I've been diving with consistency.
I want to be the champion one day, but I don't want to get ahead of myself.
As CEO of a big company, I have to be a kind of a champion of the interests of our people as insofar as their ability to do their job, to feel comfortable in their work environment, and to be able to fulfill their ambitions.
That's my aim. To fight for a world title and become a world champion.
I was loving being the champion, and I wasn't listening to my body. I almost felt like I was untouchable in a way - that I could just keep going and everything would be OK.
I really believe if I put my mind in the right place, if I train very hard, if I have good support by my side, I can be the champion again and stay there for a long time.
You probably know me best as a 4 year player, national champion, and graduate of Duke University, but I'm also a gamer, student, Christian, and a long time redditor.
What could be better than walking down any street in any city and knowing you're the heavyweight champion of the world?
Before I debuted, it was my goal to make my debut, and afterwards, I aimed at winning champion titles on television music shows, and I hoped for a chance to perform as a soloist.
The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
By 2002 we might be championship challengers. But I want to race fast. I want to become world champion myself.
Now that I'm losing some, I can see how tough I was -- the killer instinct, the single-mindedness, playing like a machine. Boy, that's what made me a champion.
I went and played football so I can support my family like I wanted to. Track has been my real dream, to be an Olympic champion and God gave me another opportunity.
A true champion is not judged by how much he or she is admired, but by how well they can stand at the face of adversity.
Champions know that there's something inside that makes a champion, and other people think that it might something external.
For a long time, I felt like my identity was to fight. My identity was to be a world champion. That almost defined me.
My boxing inspiration is to one day become world champion, to go as far as I can go and see where it takes me.
Being a world champion was great, don't get me wrong, but it also caused me a lot of problems.
You can't change your attitude because you're the champion. I've always kept my feet on the ground and never wanted to change.
There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.
Ever since I was a little kid the only thing I've ever wanted to do was be in the WWE, and not just be on the roster but to be a champion.
I didn't aspire to be a good sport; "champion" was good enough for me.
I was always the champion and will always be as long as I'm in the featherweight division.
A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
That feeling of being the NBA Champion is really unparalleled, because you're the best in the world. Without question. How many people can say that in any profession?
I lost three times in my career. Losing to Holmes I could deal with, because I lost to a true champion.
My biggest moment was winning the World Series because everyone in my town was able to feel he was a world champion.
You think that after becoming world champion, you're going to be a massive superstar with lots of lucrative bouts against great fighters, but that never materialised for me.
I wouldn't have been what you'd call a champion if I had accepted failure when it first came, if I had looked at it and said, 'Well, that's it.'
Politics is like a running race and a true champion will run the race with the competitors and emerge victoriously.
What it is saying is that someone who was a world champion and who takes care of himself with a 17-year rest and applies the proper training techniques and perseverance could be successful.
I will always make films that champion outsiders, because I still feel like one, even though I'm now governor of the documentary branch of the Academy.
I'm damn successful but I got here by not taking crap. I still don't take crap, so if anybody needs a champion, let it be me.
When I was a boxer, I wanted to be champion of the world, not the richest man in the world.
I'm really excited about my future plans, as I'm doing things differently and currently training like a Trojan in pursuit of becoming heavyweight champion of the world.
HBO has been incredible and a huge champion of my work, my passions, and has been a great home for my talent, I feel.
I've done a fair amount of commercials. I did a bunch of Champion spark plug ads and Levi's and Molson Beer. You wouldn't know it. But some of it's damn good.
This is all for Naieya (daughter), man. I will be a champion one day, I promised that to her.....And now that I have this opportunity I can't let her down.
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