Quotes About Champion

Everybody fights for money, of course, but I wanted to leave a legacy when I retired, get my name in the history. I don't think like that anymore. When I lost the belt, I saw how reality is. Champion means nothing.

I feel that's what a real champion needs to be doing, dare to take on the best fights possible.

Anybody who fights McGregor is going to have a good payday. He's one of the best guys in the UFC.

If I look forward to bigger fights, than the biggest fight for me is Manny Pacquiao.

On my way to winning the title, it was great for me, but once I won the title, it was tough for me to get fights.

Benson Henderson is a professional; he's a champion. He knows how to handle himself in the cage and he knows how to win fights.

Everyone dreams of winning a European Cup final, and I was lucky to do it at just 19.

Israel Adesanya will not be Eugene Bareman's final UFC champion.

The reason Tommaso Ciampa is NXT champion is because of me. I admitted that, and it's my mistake to fix.

I was 133-pounder all through college, and that's probably my natural fighting weight, but if it isn't broken, why fix it? I've been a champion at 145.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

I think a good MP is someone who cares for their community and becomes their champion, which is why I will make my home in any seat I am lucky enough to be selected for. Looks play no part in the equation, what matters is your ideas and connecting them to the electorate.

Ever since Mike Tyson was champ, twenty-something dudes have microwaved nachos, popped opened Natty Lights, watched sharks do unspeakable things on TV, and whispered a billion 'Whoa, dudes.'

That's my goal, I want to become the first undisputed super middleweight champion of all-time and whoever is in the way of that, it doesn't matter. You line them up and I'll knock them down.

My goal is to unify the division. Whoever's got those belts, that's who I want.

It would be silly for me to work almost two and a half years chomping out whoever they put in front of me and for me to not capture that belt.

Best matchup? You know, I don't really know. It doesn't really matter, and whoever has the belt would be fine for me.

I'm here to fight whoever. You have to make the right decisions and do it at the right time. That's what it's all about.

I feel like when the public, when the fans are ready to see me fight for the title, whoever they want to see me fight, then that's what I need to do cause that's my job.

I'll fight whoever I have to fight to prove that I'm the best.

In MMA you have to take one fight at a time but I want BJ Penn. The fans want to see it and, while I'll fight whoever the UFC tells me to, I want a shot at BJ.

I'm always drawn to the underdogs, to the people whose stories don't get told.

Becoming heavyweight champion and holding the top title is on my bucket list. That spot is always getting tighter and tighter, but why not? A man can always dream.

I do think I retired too soon. I just felt at that particular time in 2002, after winning a fifth world title belt, why not be one of the smart ones in boxing and get out.