Quotes About Champion

I've been through so much damn adversity, I've had so much critiqued on me. From being the undefeated world champion to never really getting the love or the respect I feel I deserved when I was on top and then finally getting knocked down and then everybody jumping on top, trying to kick me while I was down.

I believe I'm destined to be a world champion and I'm getting closer to what I want. Part of it is developing a championship mentality and I feel I have that now.

I'm the type of guy where I feel like if you throw me in against the guy that's gonna be my hardest match-up, I think that's gonna bring out the best in me, and I know that the best of me can beat anybody on any given day to become the world champion.

That's my aim. To fight for a world title and become a world champion.

All I want is to be a world champion and I will take on anyone to achieve that.

I don't get why people look at me the way they do. They doubted me the first time I became a world champion. Then, I fought Sadam Ali, who was a boogeyman in the division at the time, and won my second title and they were still doubting me.

Trout is no journeyman. He's a former world champion, someone who has a name and he comes to fight.

I told my mother I was going to become a world champion and buy her a home.

All my life I've always wanted to be a world champion.

If I make history, I don't need to blab about it. My first concern is not 'making history,' it's myself and becoming world champion. That's all I care about.

I will be a world champion, I'm going to do it.

When I first started boxing, I said that I'd fight in The Olympics, become world champion, and retire undefeated.

Someone like Jessica Ennis-Hill having her first baby then bouncing back to become world champion in the space of the year. I maybe wouldn't have appreciated just how big an achievement that was until I had my own child. It's an incredible thing.

I think a lot of people clamored for me to be a world champion or to be in this position but that I needed to be more serious and fit a certain mold. One of my things as a performer is that what I learned in our journey was, honestly, it was so much more rewarding to do it our way.

Aljo has already beaten a former world champion in Renan Barao, and I thought he fought masterfully, using all these ranges beautifully. He's like the Black Panther showing the world who he is.

Obviously, if you're able to become a two division world champion - not many are world champions in their life or their career. I have the opportunity to do this.

Before I got in the UFC, I wrote down on a piece of paper a goal that I was going to make it to the UFC in 2015 and then I'll be the world champion before 2017 so I'm right on track. I pull out that piece of paper all the time and look at it. It's motivation.

Under two years in the UFC, I became a world champion. That's a fast track.

I went from the top of the world 11-0, 25 years old, world champion to a three-fight skid.

Ive won it once, and that might be enough for some people, but it isnt for me, he says. I want to do this again and again. I want to be called out as a multiple world champion, and spoken about like some of the greats of the game.

I don't mean any disrespect, but being world champion hasn't made me happy.

I'm not here to be mediocre. I'm not in the UFC just to get a paycheck and make a living. That's really not what I'm here for. If I wanted to make money, I would have gotten out of the sport and done something else. I want to be a world champion.

I'm here at Madison Square Garden as world champion and have a world champion's mentality, the pressures on to defend my belt - this is what champions do.

It's my dream to be a world champion and I will become a world champion.