We’ve collected the best World Champion Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Dana White, Nonito Donaire, Michael Bisping, Oleksandr Usyk, Jeff Hardy. Use them as an inspiration.
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The way I look at it is I had to retire as world champion with my last match at WrestleMania.
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I dreamed of becoming a world champion, I dreamed of becoming France‘s champion.
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I could be a world champion.
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I have been a world champion, I have climbed that mountain.
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It’s my dream to be a world champion and I will become a world champion.
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At the end of the day, I want to be a world champion.
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I go from unranked to world champion in one year.
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I’ve been training mixed martial arts and kickboxing so I think that will give me better overall conditioning to become a world champion.
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That’s what a true professional is – a true world champion, so to everybody out there listening, especially the fighters that want to fight me… they’ll get knocked out, sparko.
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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.
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I am European Games champion now as well as Olympic champion, European champion, and world champion.
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I will be a world champion, I’m going to do it.
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I wanted to be a world champion.
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Listen, you can’t just come in to boxing and be a world champion. You’ve got to be born with it.
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A guy like AJ Styles is obviously a great talent and he’s going to go out there and put on a performance that’s befitting of a man who is the World Champion.
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When you start boxing when you’re 7 years old, that’s your dream, to become world champion, and after that you want to become something bigger than world champion.
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You work for years and years to make the Olympics, then something goes wrong and it’s all gone. But that doesn’t mean you can’t still make your mark in another way. Losing in the Olympic Trials made me that much hungrier to become a world champion as a pro.
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You get these young kids who are training their whole life to go to the Olympics. To go there and not fight someone else like them but fight someone who has might won an Olympics before, been a world champion, and is just coming back to fight some kids, I think is insane.
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I love being world champion.
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I want to be the world champion.
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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.
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It’s impossible to describe Messi. I like him so much, and I always say I feel so sad because he never won the World Cup with Argentina. It is an award he deserves because a world-class player like him must be a world champion.
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I’m a grown man, a professional, and a world champion.
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Carlos Molina is a great fighter. He’s a world champion. I give him all the credit for even just choosing me to fight him and giving me the opportunity. I’m going to be well-prepared, well-disciplined in the ring when it’s time to go.
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I am a dreamer. And what I dream of is to become Olympic champion, world champion, world record holder.
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I was three times AAU All-American World Champion and I had rough time. I was broke, no money and everything was bad for me until WWE.
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My goal is to prosper and be a world champion and make money and retire and say I did it.
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I’ve experienced success, I’ve experienced failure, I’ve been a world champion, I’ve fought all over the world; I think I’ve experienced enough that I won’t get in front of a million people and get gunshy.
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I’m proud of what my brother has done. His success motivates me. He’s a world champion.
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Building a better life for every child is a lot harder than becoming a world champion. Both goals take dedication and commitment.
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I was world champion. For me, chess is my life. It is everything.
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All my life I’ve always wanted to be a world champion.
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There are plenty of massive fights out there for me, I know that, but the goals always going to become world champion.
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I want to be a world champion, but I want to be the face of Livestrong.
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I’ve always been working just to be a world champion and it’s a dream come true.
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I was 25 years old, a world champion.
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When you talk about somebody being your world champion, you couldn’t ask for a better human being than Daniel Cormier.
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The ultimate goal of any athlete in any sport is to become a true world champion.
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If Messi were Brazilian, he would be a world champion.
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Being a world champion is out of the ordinary.
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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.
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I was the youngest world champion in history when I won the WSOP in 1989 at age 24.
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To become a world champion, to defeat Anderson Silva, to accomplish my goal in one night, it was a super surreal feeling.
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Of course, to be WWE world champion is definitely on my list. Anybody who is not reaching for that proverbial brass ring is doing something wrong if they’re in the WWE.
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I feel like it’s harder because everyone knows I’m the three-time world champion – it’s almost like people are waiting for something bad to happen.
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Only one guy can be world champion, and so if everyone else thought they were failures you’d have no one left on the grid.
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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.
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I think I could have become an outstanding professional baseball player, but I don’t think I could have reached the heights that I have in football – being one of the very top players in the game, being a world champion.
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I want people to look at me as a four-time world champion, in two weight categories, as a down-to-earth man of the people, not the joke that I had become.
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Of course I will turn professional at some stage. Then I want to be a world champion and finish up a legend and be out of the sport by the time I am 27.
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It’s not been a bad life, and I do know that I could never have been a world champion. All I ever wanted to do was be the best I could with what I had, which wasn’t very much, really. And that’s what I think I did.
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I’m looking at the belt on the top of the bag across from me, and it still hasn’t fully hit me. There are multiple stages to all of this, but I know that every time I walk into a gym or go to a new locker room since I won the title, I’ve felt like the world champion.
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This has been a dream of mine since I was a kid… I’m passionate about being a world champion, believe me.
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You can be world champion, but ranked No 6 in the world, with there being four champions.
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Being a fighter is no joke. Year in and year out. Especially as a world champion. All eyes are on you, and you can’t go where you want, eat what you want.
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I turned pro to be a world champion. Obviously that’s the first goal, but I want to be the best in the world.
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It’s a dream of mine to be a mixed martial arts world champion.
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When I was about 12, I realised I wasn’t going to make it as a top footballer, but I won my first British ABA title at 13. From then on, I wanted to be a world champion.
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I’m a five-time world champion in two different weight classes. Man, it’s amazing.
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It is my goal to be world champion.
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Who would have ever thought that, within a couple months of getting into the WWE, that I’d be wrestling in the main event for the world championship? Then, nine months after getting here, actually being the world champion.
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I would love to end my career as World Champion.
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To have a heavyweight world champion from Manchester is something you can only dream of.
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Can’t fight destiny. It’s my destiny to be a world champion.
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My goal and path is always to get to the mountaintop and be a world champion, and leave a fighting legacy.
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I always wanted to be a world champion, all my life. At 13, I told my mom I would be a world champion.
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After having been at WWE and being somebody who was being groomed to be a world champion, I ran afoul of some politics and spent three months on a losing streak. I had a confrontation with one of the executives.
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I didn’t have to win, and winning wasn’t important to me. Being world champion wasn’t important to me. What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.
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Every fighter goes into the gym to be a world champion.
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I didn’t think every day, ‘I’m world champion, I’m world champion,’ not at all.
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I remember my first World Championships. I got zero turns, and I got turned multiple times, and I was still a World Champion.
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By 2002 we might be championship challengers. But I want to race fast. I want to become world champion myself.
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I made a prediction when I was 11 that I would be world champion by the time I was 21, and I did it.
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My money thing, I never wanted to have my motivation to be money, that’s not why I got into this sport, I got into it to be a world champion.
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At six years old, I told my dad that I would be world champion, and on Nov. 26, 2011, I am.
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Anyone who is not trying to be the world champion is wasting their time.
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All these nice people saying I’m going to be world champion won’t make me any faster, you have to believe it yourself.
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I’m a world champion, I’ve beaten everyone I’ve been in with and I want to test myself.
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My dream as a child was being a world champion.
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When I first started boxing, I said that I’d fight in The Olympics, become world champion, and retire undefeated.
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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.
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With persistence, dedication, and especially with the hand of God, I came to be recognized as the best player in the world, world champion, among many other important titles in the history of football.
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It’s a very slippery slope when you have a world champion boxer fighting an MMA guy for the sake of money, and he can’t knock him out in the first round. He has to make sure he carries him a little bit.
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I want to entertain the fans and put on great fights and have ‘Fight of the Nights’ and have exiting matchups, but at the same time I want to be the undisputed world champion.
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I feel like everybody’s who fighting, young fighters and still learning and growing, that should be their goal – to be the UFC world champion.
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I got to world champion, No 1-rated fighter in the division and managed to earn from the defences.
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I would like to be the youngest UFC world champion. I believe I can accomplish that.
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