Quotes About Champion

When I got into the sport and wrote down my goals, it was never to be a UFC main event or to be a on a UFC main card. It was to be the UFC champion.

Middleweight is my category.

To be in the UFC would mean to go back to where I already won the belt, to go back to where I was a champion at 24 years old, and try to cement my legacy as an MMA fighter.

I'm going to show the difference between the champ and second place.

Werdum's the champ for a reason. He's good at jiu jitsu; like he says, he's gotten better on his feet.

To take the belt from the champ you need to finish him.

I'm the champ for a reason.

I want to be a multi-division champ.

I'm the world champ! I'm the world champ!

Shlemenko wants to make his name off of Tito Ortiz. He's not the first person ever to do this. People have been trying to use my name ever since I was the champ.

When I left NXT, I was kind of mad that I was never NXT champ, so when I got to the main roster, that was my first goal.

I'm the people's champ.

I'm not fighting just to fight. I'm fighting to be the world champ.

Look, when my career is over and done with, I'm the one who can look back and say that I was the champ.

For me, the biggest thing with Overeem, he's a K-1 champ, Strikeforce champ, DREAM champ, you name it. He's had every belt in there.

I'm a butcher champ, I don't care what I eat, I don't care what I cut, I just want to get cutting.

Every single fighter in the UFC dreams to be the champ.

To be a great champion, you have to believe that you are the best, and if you aren't, then you have to act as though you are.

To be ECW champion is something that I take very, very seriously.

I really believe if I put my mind in the right place, if I train very hard, if I have good support by my side, I can be the champion again and stay there for a long time.

No one expected me to become a champion.

In your career, to walk away champion of the Greatest Royal Rumble would be something people will take with them for a lifetime.

There's people that tried to celebrate when I lost that got nothing to do with it. That's not the sign of a champion.

Since I was a boy of five or six, I had it in my mind I would be a world boxing champion.