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
The cherished dream of every chessplayer is to play a match with the World Champion. But here is the paradox: the closer… — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
My most difficult opponent is myself. When I am playing I often involuntarily make a world champion out of a candidate master. — Lev Polugaevsky 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
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
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
All my fans, especially my Latino fans and Nicaraguan fans, I promise you I will become world champion. After I become world… — Ricardo Mayorga Copy Share Image
I believe that I will be the WWE World Champion one day. I know that a lot of people say that; it's… — Luke Harper Copy Share Image
With persistence, dedication, and especially with the hand of God, I came to be recognized as the best player in the world,… — Rivaldo Copy Share Image
So much of boxing is to do with your mental state. Evander Holyfield talks about spirit. I definitely have that spirit and… — Daniel Dubois Copy Share Image
Jenny Simpson loses her shoe in the women's fifteen hundred, with a lap and a half to go, destroying her chances to… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I do believe that 'Aljo' could be world champion. If you look at the fighters he's faced and beaten, they're high caliber… — Matt Serra Copy Share Image
The ultimate goal for me is to be the world champion - it's all I've wanted to do since I was a… — Callum Smith Copy Share Image
When you become a world champion and you defend your title for five or six years, and you have fifteen defences of… — Naseem Hamed Copy Share Image
The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches. — Anatoly Karpov 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
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
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
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
You never let somebody come from outside the business, have their way with the business, and then leave the next day and… — Roddy Piper 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
I'm nothing at welterweight. I'm coming up here to try and prove a point that I can become a two-weight world champion. — Josh Taylor 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
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
I started wrestling when I was 15 years old, and back when I was world champion, I was wrestling 7 nights a week. — Harley Race Copy Share Image
Mayweather has been hit the least out of every world champion in history and that is the art of the sport; to… — Anthony Yarde 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
I grew up watching the careers of Tyson and Bowe. I always wanted to follow in their footsteps in becoming a world… — Shannon Briggs Copy Share Image
I don't think I'll ever be out of wrestling, because I was that kid at 8 years old that dreamed of being… — Diamond Dallas Page Copy Share Image
My money thing, I never wanted to have my motivation to be money, that's not why I got into this sport, I… — Cody Garbrandt 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
You know, every morning that I wake up...I realize that being World Champion is a gift. And let me be the one… — Oscar Gutierrez Copy Share Image
I want to entertain the fans and put on great fights and have 'Fight of the Nights' and have exiting matchups, but… — Dustin Poirier Copy Share Image
I want to thank America. You opened your heart so I could enter. Thank you everybody who lives in the United States,… — Roberto Duran Copy Share Image
At 19, I was European champion, and at 21, I was world champion. Let's just hope Amir Khan can follow in the… — Naseem Hamed Copy Share Image
I have nothing bad to say about Briedis. His style is a bit boring, but I respect him. Briedis is a world… — Oleksandr Usyk Copy Share Image
For a long time, I felt like my identity was to fight. My identity was to be a world champion. That almost… — Dominick Cruz 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
