Quotes About Champion

Even though I say to myself that I was seven-times World Champion, the voice in my head says, 'You can't play this shot.' It's completely mental - quite literally. My confidence is sapped every time this happens.

Maybe I wish I could be out there on the big occasions playing like I did at my peak, but I certainly don't miss the six and seven hours a day practice that went hand in hand with being world champion in the nineties - or losing to guys knowing that it would never have happened when I was at my best.

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.

A guy like AJ Styles is obviously a great talent and he's going to go out there and put on a performance that's befitting of a man who is the World Champion.

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.

I got to world champion, No 1-rated fighter in the division and managed to earn from the defences.

There are plenty of massive fights out there for me, I know that, but the goals always going to become world champion.

When you talk about somebody being your world champion, you couldn't ask for a better human being than Daniel Cormier.

I grew up watching the careers of Tyson and Bowe. I always wanted to follow in their footsteps in becoming a world champion. But I've always been my own man.

So much of boxing is to do with your mental state. Evander Holyfield talks about spirit. I definitely have that spirit and feel like I've got something special inside me. It's about me bringing it out, controlling it and using it to become world champion.

My goal and path is always to get to the mountaintop and be a world champion, and leave a fighting legacy.

I'm chasing gold. And whatever fight can get me closer to being a world champion, those are the fights that I want.

My goal is to prosper and be a world champion and make money and retire and say I did it.

I think being world number one and world champion, pressure comes with that.

The biggest motivation for me is becoming a three-division world champion faster than any other boxer, male or female.

This has been a dream of mine since I was a kid... I'm passionate about being a world champion, believe me.

To have a heavyweight world champion from Manchester is something you can only dream of.

I'm not going to say I was Britain's greatest ever world champion. I think Joe Calzaghe was the best - although I think I fought a lot better fighters.

I'm going to be world champion and have a belt, and people will correctly be able to say I was the best instead of I was very good.

I've been asked many times, do you regret never having been the world champion, you know? I kind of laugh. I say well, you know, this business is a work. It's like, none of those guys are ever really the world wrestling champion. The titles are props in this business.

It sounds strange to be world champion at the Crucible.

Mayweather has been hit the least out of every world champion in history and that is the art of the sport; to hit and not get hit.

To become a world champion, to defeat Anderson Silva, to accomplish my goal in one night, it was a super surreal feeling.