Champion Quote by Stephen Thompson Download Open image “A lot of people think you're not the champion until you defend it one time.” — Stephen Thompson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Champion Defend People Think Time
This is what champions do: champions defend. They always say you're not a champion until you defend your title. — Max Holloway Copy Share Image
Winning the belt is one thing. But you're not really a champion until you defend it. — Forrest Griffin Copy Share Image
I already had many opportunities to play tournaments as a defending champion and for me it's not about defending something. It's about giving everything… — Iga Swiatek 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 your title,… — Naseem Hamed Copy Share Image
Even when people didn't think I was the real champion, I got called out anyway. So now when you get a good win the… — Danny Garcia Copy Share Image
For every champion, after you win the belt, you want to defend it as many times as possible. — Demetrious Johnson Copy Share Image
In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning… — Althea Gibson Copy Share Image
When you are the champion, you are there to be shot at. It doesn't bother me what people say. — Kell Brook Copy Share Image
There's a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are. — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
I understand it's part of the sport, part of the game to have people who like you and people who don't. — Stephen Thompson Copy Share Image
Everybody asks me, 'Hey, what's your most memorable fight?' For me, it's definitely the Matt Brown fight. — Stephen Thompson Copy Share Image
To be honest with you, Conor McGregor at 170, I think he's just going to be thrown around like a little rag doll. — Stephen Thompson Copy Share Image
I know that pretty much everybody I face is going to wind up wanting to take me down eventually. — Stephen Thompson Copy Share Image
I rage playing video games. I think that's the only time you will ever hear me say a cuss word. — Stephen Thompson Copy Share Image
I was like 'You know what? I'm training with these champions. Guys like Georges St-Pierre, Rashad Evans, Nate Marquardt... Let me give this MMA… — Stephen Thompson Copy Share Image
In kickboxing, if I walked around at 185 pounds, I fought at 185 pounds. — Stephen Thompson Copy Share Image
When you're out there in the octagon and you've got thousands of people, millions across the world, either cheering for you to win or… — Stephen Thompson Copy Share Image
You gotta be ready in this game. Like when Michael Bisping knocked out Luke Rockhold. I thought... everybody thought that Luke Rockhold would go… — Stephen Thompson Copy Share Image
We kind of understand at this level of the game when you work your way up to the top there's a possibility you may… — Stephen Thompson Copy Share Image
Before I debuted, it was my goal to make my debut, and afterwards, I aimed at winning champion titles on television music shows, and… — Hyuna Copy Share Image
As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion. — Marion Jones Copy Share Image
Grit, determination, the right amount of crazy, self belief - everything it takes to be a champion. I have that. — Dustin Poirier Copy Share Image
If I can beat a proven champion like Canelo, that will take my career to a different level. — Gennady Golovkin Copy Share Image
I still have to unify my division and basically become the undefeated welterweight champion of the world. I can't lose. It is more added… — Errol Spence Jr Copy Share Image
Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died, we buried… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Bernie [Ecclestone] is the commercial rights holder so the more outgoing the champion is, the better. Of course. I also do think about our… — Bernie Ecclestone Copy Share Image
I think cricket is there in Usain Bolt's blood. Since I got to watch from close quarters, it was amazing to see him run… — Harbhajan Singh Copy Share Image
It's interesting that the greatest minds of computer science, the founding fathers, like Alan Turing and Claude Shannon and Norbert Wiener, they all looked… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
![“Bernie [Ecclestone] is the commercial rights holder so the more outgoing the champion is, the better. Of course. I also do think about our sport and want to make an effort - but in my own way. I am Nico [Rosberg] and not Lewis [Hamilton]!” quote by Bernie Ecclestone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/15c/bernie-ecclestone-8452_champion_bernie-ecclestone-is-the-commercial-righ_2948.jpg)
