Quotes About Victory

There was a question in my mind, because I am black, if the fans would accept a black world champion. 'Bash at the Bash' was a topsy-turvy night. Finally, when the 1-2-3 came, the fans erupted. All my questions were answered; they really did want to see me win.

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.

That's what a true professional is - a true world champion, so to everybody out there listening, especially the fighters that want to fight me... they'll get knocked out, sparko.

To me, being heavyweight world champion and Olympic sprint champion are the two greatest prizes in sport.

For me, back in Sydney, it was just being there and going out and beating Alexander Karelin, 13-time world champion and Olympic gold medalist. It was everything for me.

I made my debut on October 10, 2008, so it'll be seven years to the day that I could become world champion. That's a massive night to be crowned.

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.

The ultimate goal of any athlete in any sport is to become a true world champion.

I know who I am. I'm a former world champion.

I am dying to be a world champion, a single's world champion.

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.

I was K-1 world champion.

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.

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.

My goal is to become a world champion.

I could be a 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.

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.