Champion Quote by David Haye

When I was 30 I became world champion and that's when I started to make a living.

— Phil Taylor

When I was 22 years old, I wanted to become the lightweight champion of the world.

— B. J. Penn

I was 25 years old, a world champion.

— Cody Garbrandt

I wanted to be a world champion of some sorts since I got into the industry, when I was 15 years old, and I…

— Cody Rhodes

Yeah, I thought I could be heavyweight champion of the world when I was working with Ali and Joe Frazier and Earnie Shavers and…

— Larry Holmes

When I was five years in, I was the UFC heavyweight champion, and all I could think about was fighting.

— Josh Barnett

My career progressed slowly. Real slow at a time. The irony of it was I had the best part of my career between when…

— Fred Funk

I never contemplated retiring but when I was a teenager I never thought I'd play past 30 years old. I thought I'd win a…

— Mats Wilander

Since I was 9 years old, I've been training to be a champion.

— Kell Brook

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.

— Judd Trump

I made a prediction when I was 11 that I would be world champion by the time I was 21, and I did it.

— Naseem Hamed

I was only 18 and I'd be 22 if I was competing at London. I'm stronger and more experienced and I know I would…

— Billy Joe Saunders