Champion Quotes · Page 45

Me, Shinsuke Nakamura, and Lyoto Machida, former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion, all shared a two-bedroom apartment together.

— Daniel Bryan

What the Hell. In 1988, I was the AWA heavyweight champion and I never came to Milwaukee.

— Jerry Lawler

When you watch 'UFC,' there is not a cliche champion who looks the same every time.

— Bray Wyatt

That was the fight. I knew that I had done something that no man had been able to do to a champion.

— Thomas Hearns

Being the longest-reigning champion isn't that big a deal to me because records are made to be broken.

— Kazuchika Okada

Thats alright man. We gotta do what we gotta do to get a champion in this house.

— Big Black

This was the most emotional title of my career. I was the youngest champion, and now I'm the oldest.

— Kelly Slater

The overwhelming majority of NFL owners are white, and when they do choose to get involved in politics, they usually champion conservative…

— Jemele Hill

I was just racing day by day. With Niki [Lauda], every race was to be on the top. He programmed his life…

— Clay Regazzoni

Even though I say to myself that I was seven-times World Champion, the voice in my head says, 'You can't play this…

— Stephen Hendry

My desire at Liverpool was to help get the club playing in the elite because they had been five years without it.…

— Luis Suarez

In your journey to the tag of winning-at-all-costs you can still behave, you can still do the right things by not crossing…

— Sourav Ganguly

But I think the Champions League Final puts a massive pressure on every player and the manager, but we're enjoying the pressure…

— Steven Gerrard

I've always had something much more than money, which is respect. When I was champion, people looked into my heart and some…

— Chris Eubank Sr

Champions do not become champions when they win an event, but in the hours, weeks, and months, and years they spend preparing…

— Michael Jordan

Steve Bannon is the biggest threat to democracy that we've faced since the Civil War, but in the Civil War the champion…

— Van Jones

Winning the world title was my goal as a kid, but being the pound-for-pound champion would be the ultimate.

— Ricky Hatton

“One of the bravest, grandest champions of human liberty the world has ever seen. {Darrow on the great Robert Ingersoll }”

— Clarence Darrow

I still know I'm a true champion, I'm a great fighter, some of the best fighters of all time have a loss,…

— Danny Garcia

Do you have any ambitions outside racing? My main ambition at the moment, whether inside or outside racing, is to become Formula…

— Kimi Raikkonen

Players talk about wanting to win and wanting to be a champion, but ultimately, they want to do it on their own…

— Jalen Rose

... America has amnesia. ... Certainly, there is a passion for memory loss in American thought. ... Americans may be the world champion forgetters.

— Paula Gunn Allen

My biggest moment was winning the World Series because everyone in my town was able to feel he was a world champion.

— Johnny Bench

What I did at the start of each season, regardless if I was coming back as the champion, was run indoors and…

— Donovan Bailey

If you're a real champion, you have to take fight, doesn't matter how many days, who it's going to be.

— Islam Makhachev

I was a great teammate and I love all my teammates, and then No. 2 is I'm a champion. So I don't…

— Channing Frye

I turned pro to be a world champion. Obviously that's the first goal, but I want to be the best in the…

— Callum Smith

For the birth of one champion, there are many young boxers behind them who had setbacks. In terms of that, I think…

— Takashi Miike

I would like to be the youngest UFC world champion. I believe I can accomplish that.

— Sage Northcutt

I was the youngest world champion in history when I won the WSOP in 1989 at age 24.

— Phil Hellmuth

I respect Haye as a man and for being a former two-weight world champion. But not as a boxer.

— Shannon Briggs

There are so many belts, so many champions. Who is the real champion? For me, all that dilutes the sport. It's hard…

— Josh Taylor

When I got into the sport and wrote down my goals, it was never to be a UFC main event or to…

— Joseph Benavidez

It is a great feeling even thinking about being French Open winner and Wimbledon champion the same year, that few players have…

— Carlos Alcaraz

If the girls and boys have talent and feel like working on themselves, they can become champions.

— Rafael Nadal

Winning one fight doesn't make you a champion, staying at that one spot on the ladder with respect by your side does

— Anonymous

I never told my parents that I was doing boxing. They only came to know after I became state champion and my…

— Mary Kom

My whole life, I've been working really hard, and I can say I'm a grand slam champion.

— Angelique Kerber

When Vince McMahon said I was going to be a future world champion, he didn't say when.

— Drew McIntyre

As far as being the longest-reigning X Division champion, it's a pretty remarkable achievement, due to all the men who have held…

— Austin Aries