I didn't really believe in myself. Why should a young kid from Des Moines, Iowa, be a world champion? — Jeremy Stephens Copy Share Image
Having sport allowed me to forget about the ups and downs of my condition and think about a set goal, which was… — Kadeena Cox Copy Share Image
Michael Schumacher deserved the driver's championship. To be honest, I didn't want to keep my record as the last Ferrari world champion;… — Jody Scheckter Copy Share Image
Do you have any ambitions outside racing? My main ambition at the moment, whether inside or outside racing, is to become Formula… — Kimi Raikkonen Copy Share Image
... America has amnesia. ... Certainly, there is a passion for memory loss in American thought. ... Americans may be the world champion forgetters. — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
The system set up by F.I.D.E. ... Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion... The Russians arranged it that… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
A guy like AJ Styles is obviously a great talent and he's going to go out there and put on a performance… — Austin Aries Copy Share Image
Only one guy can be world champion, and so if everyone else thought they were failures you'd have no one left on… — Mark Webber Copy Share Image
I do Thai boxing Mondays, jujitsu Tuesdays and Thursdays, and Wednesdays I do boxing with Mark - he was a world champion… — Millie Bobby Brown Copy Share Image
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… — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
There are hundreds of young fighters whose handlers believe them to be a future world champion or the next great heavyweight or… — Thomas Hauser Copy Share Image
That's the real motivating factor to go down to featherweight, is that I didn't want to tread water at lightweight. You want… — Dan Hooker Copy Share Image
In the history of each sport, the heroes who win the Olympic gold medal are the ones we remember. Nobody remembers the… — Lavinia Milosovici Copy Share Image
It's a very slippery slope when you have a world champion boxer fighting an MMA guy for the sake of money, and… — Benson Henderson Copy Share Image
In my opinion the best jiu-jitsu in the UFC is Charles 'Do Bronx.' Because of his jiu-jitsu in MMA. In jiu-jitsu, he… — Mackenzie Dern Copy Share Image
When I first came in, I won a world championship pretty fast. Then I worked with John Morrison and Daniel Bryan, became… — Sheamus Copy Share Image
I knew I had the ability to become a world champion, I knew I did. I knew I just needed the opportunity. — Dustin Poirier Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to be a world champion, but when you take that first punch it will tell you if you really want… — Ricky Hatton Copy Share Image
If you want to be that world champion, you have to be willing to beat anybody on this planet - no strings… — Dominick Cruz Copy Share Image
Since I've lived in Barcelona, I've played a bit of padel, so maybe I'll become World Champion at that - joking, of… — Toni Duggan Copy Share Image
The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches. — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
You decide whether you want to box on, or not. And for me of course, I wasn't going to be leaving the… — George Groves Copy Share Image
It was very hard when the newspapers were chasing me. It was also very weird. I know I'd just become world champion… — Adrian Lewis Copy Share Image
From a young age, people have been touting me as a future world champion and it's nice to get that out of… — Judd Trump Copy Share Image
There are plenty of massive fights out there for me, I know that, but the goals always going to become world champion. — George Groves Copy Share Image
You think that after becoming world champion, you're going to be a massive superstar with lots of lucrative bouts against great fighters,… — Joe Calzaghe Copy Share Image
People just want to hold the belt and say they were champion. You've got to be world champion and put it on… — Marlon Moraes Copy Share Image
[When I'll be old I see myself] as a world champion, on a big farm with an Italian-style, big family with a… — Bernie Ecclestone Copy Share Image
As Mackenzie the jiu-jitsu world champion, if I'm on the ground, I should be submitting any of the girls. So in that… — Mackenzie Dern Copy Share Image
I thought I was playing the world champion, not some 27-eyed monster who sees everything in all positions. — Tony Miles Copy Share Image
Obviously, if you're able to become a two division world champion - not many are world champions in their life or their… — Cody Garbrandt Copy Share Image
What else was there for me in terms of challenges, setting new targets? There was nothing to do, so what there was… — Josh Taylor Copy Share Image
I don't want to go back to WWE and burn out within four or five months, and having another run as TNA… — Jeff Hardy Copy Share Image
I may have become a world champion quicker than most, but people should look at me and realise there are all kinds… — Mikaela Shiffrin Copy Share Image
By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Aljo has already beaten a former world champion in Renan Barao, and I thought he fought masterfully, using all these ranges beautifully.… — Matt Serra Copy Share Image
To be world champion brings fame. The fame brings good things and bad things too. I try to take the good with… — Sergio Martinez Copy Share Image
Being world's champion is what I set out in life to do. I'm one of the few people on earth that can… — Harley Race Copy Share Image
When I was 14, I told my careers adviser that I was going to be a world champion boxer. Of course she laughed. — Joe Calzaghe Copy Share Image
Once I'm world Champion we can think about what fights are fun rather than fights that need to take place. — George Groves Copy Share Image
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