The Olympics is a special event and winning is very important. For me as a world record holder and world champion, the only thing I am missing is the Olympic gold medal and that is what I want to achieve in my career.
I'm so proud, and it feels brilliant to be a world champion.
I want to be the light heavyweight champion of the world.
I have been a world champion, I have climbed that mountain.
Two-time world champion - that's my goal.
I want to be the undisputed champion of the world.
I know who I am. I'm a former world champion.
We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.
I didn't become world champion to fight Jimmy Kelly.
I worked my whole life to become a world champion.
I know my mission is not just to be a champion, I mean, being champion would be great and I want to be one, but it's not under my control, you know.
In the Olympics, everything goes back to square one. The world champion or the world record holder or the ninth last year are fighting for the same medal, and you have got to go there like it was the first time.
My goal is to be the champion of the world, and that's what I'll set myself up to do.
Who else is willing to fight Woodley at six weeks' notice? Nobody. That's why it's come to me. But I will dethrone the champion and start a new era. I'll be an active champion, so they can all get in line.
If you're the UFC champion, you're the best in the world at what you do, and I get the opportunity to do that.
It's possible for the heavyweight champion of the world to be with one woman.
It's an honour to be a world champion, and it can never be taken away from you.
I would love to end my career as World Champion.
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.
People view you differently when you're a world champion.
For me, it doesn't matter if you are fighting a world champion or not.
Every day Americans and their families need a champion, a champion who will fight for them every single day. And I want to be that champion. I want to get up every single day going to work for you, standing up for you.
I'm not bothered about where I'm ranked in the world. I'm just worried about fighting the best people in the world and being a natural, original champion.
I remember my first World Championships. I got zero turns, and I got turned multiple times, and I was still a World Champion.
If you live in a global world and you want to champion liberty in it, then you have you got to sign up to that global world.
My goal is to become a world champion.
I am a well-spoken, educated person, and I'm also an extremely accomplished athlete. For me, it's disrespect and a slap in the face when people say I broke a mold as champion or I don't fit as champion.
My dream as a child was being a world champion.
My goal is to be the undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the World.
I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him 20 minutes to pass the salt.
I go from unranked to world champion in one year.
All my life I've always wanted to be a world champion.
I want to be World Heavyweight Champion, but unfortunately, that didn't happen.
To be the World Champion in 1981 was a huge honour.
Being a world champion is out of the ordinary.
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.
What I'm trying to do is reinvent what the face of a champion looks like. I'm out there trying to represent for the people who question whether they can become a champion or not.
In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
I was world champion. For me, chess is my life. It is everything.
Anyone who is not trying to be the world champion is wasting their time.
Once a champion, always a champion.
Obviously becoming champion is always going to be my goal and something I want to accomplish, but I can't control being the champion and winning and losing. You can't control the result.
I wasn't born to be champion - I fought to be champion.
No matter what nationality or color is champion, we Irish like to say that we have a heavyweight champion, Gene Tunney retired, who can come back and take the title at any time.
I went to SG Formula and became Formula Renault 2.0 Champion. I went then to ART in Formula 3 and became Champion. Then I stayed with the team in GP2 Asia Series, and again, I became Champion. Then the first year of GP2 was really great. I was P4 at the end of the season, which was a fantastic result.
I turned pro as a 20-year-old, won a world title a year later, and remained a world champion ever since.
It sounds strange to be world champion at the Crucible.
If Messi were Brazilian, he would be a world champion.
It's a quality you need to be a world champion; you have to have that killer instinct.
I was 25 years old, a world champion.
I have always felt and said that a man who can be a champion in one era could be a champion in any other era because he has what it takes to reach the top.
Every fighter goes into the gym to be a world champion.
At the end of the day, I want to be a world champion.
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I had been thinking, 'I've got to win because I'm Olympic champion'; actually, no, it's, 'I'm an Olympic champion for life,' I can just enjoy the rest.
When you're champion, you feel you're the center of the world.
I worked hard to become of champion of the world.
A champion shows who he is by what he does when he's tested. When a person gets up and says 'I can still do it', he's a champion. If they cut my bald head open, they will find one big boxing glove. That's all I am. I live it.
I'm a grown man, a professional, and a world champion.
I want to be the first English WWE world champion.
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