Quotes About Determination

I turned pro to be a world champion. Obviously that's the first goal, but I want to be the best in the world.

I never started in boxing to be a British champion or a world champion. There are loads of world champions in Britain, and if you mention them to someone out there on the street, nobody knows who they are.

I am European Games champion now as well as Olympic champion, European champion, and world champion.

I'm world champion, so if I'm not ready for another fighter at 154, I don't deserve to be world champion. That's the way I look at it and what I firmly believe.

People said I didn't deserve to be World Champion, but I think I've proved it.

I've had ups and downs in my career, and if you look at it as a bookmaker, the odds of me becoming a world champion were never in my favour, but I never stopped believing in myself and never stopped trying.

When I started boxing, people laughed at me and said, 'What can women do in boxing?' I took it as a challenge. If men can do it, why can't women? And I became a world champion before my marriage.

When I see Big E, I clearly see someone who could be world champion. The guy is on another level.

I know people didn't think I'd become a world champion - even people probably in my own camp, my own team, didn't think I'd become a world champion this quickly.

It's a quality you need to be a world champion; you have to have that killer instinct.

I think that every single fight you have is to prove yourself. Even if you're the world champion, the UFC champion of the world, you're still proving yourself; people are coming to beat you.

I didn't become world champion to fight Jimmy Kelly.

I'm a five-time world champion in two different weight classes. Man, it's amazing.

If you want to be that world champion, you have to be willing to beat anybody on this planet - no strings attached.

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

Going from a two-year-old Polish boy, who practically came to Germany with nothing more than a football under his arm, to a world champion - it's more than I could have ever imagined.

To be a world champion from Oklahoma is something that really pushes me.

When you become a world champion and you defend your title for five or six years, and you have fifteen defences of your title, and you round up most of the other belts - and you feel you're the best of your generation at the time - nobody can take that away from you.

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

When I was about 12, I realised I wasn't going to make it as a top footballer, but I won my first British ABA title at 13. From then on, I wanted to be a world champion.

I wanted to set new goals, because if you say, 'Oh, I'm world champion,' you don't grow, and you don't keep your level.

You decide whether you want to box on, or not. And for me of course, I wasn't going to be leaving the business until becoming a world champion, and defending it numerous times.

Carl Froch is a strong, seasoned world champion and there's no quit in him.

My first goal was to become world champion and I did that against Ricky Burns at 135. Once I conquered that, I set myself another goal and another goal.