Amateur Quote by Rodney Mullen

I remember my first World Championships. I got zero turns, and I got turned multiple times, and I was still a World Champion.

— Jordan Burroughs

The first time I won the Ring of Honor World Championship, I was a kid - I was 23 years old.

— Adam Cole

It was a tough year for me, '89, losing two Slam finals and losing another five finals. It wasn't until I won the Masters,…

— Stefan Edberg

I made my first World Championships team at 12.

— Ellie Simmonds

Everything started coming into my head, ... I was the youngest world champ and now I'm the oldest world champ; it's been seven years…

— Kelly Slater

I think my first World Championships, I handled it well. My goal, just like any other meet, was to come out and win.

— Christian Coleman

In the late '80s and early '90s, I took success for granted, winning four or five tournaments a year. I just expected to win…

— Stephen Hendry

The first win came very quick, and I didn't know what it meant to win a major championship. I was a teenager, I was…

— Inbee Park

We surprised ourselves in '84 when we thought we could win a major tournament but hadn't yet until we won the gold medal.

— Karch Kiraly

Winning the Intercontinental Title for the first time, in 2010, was a real milestone, as I grew up living off some of those Intercontinental…

— Dolph Ziggler

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

— Phil Taylor

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