Quotes About Competition

I want to stay active and busy. I don't just want to fight a no-name opponent. I want a decent name or a big name or a world champion, somebody who is going to challenge me. That's just it.

I want to be the European, Olympic, Commonwealth and world champion. I want the full set.

We need strong personalities and only one world champion to attract sponsors.

For me, it doesn't matter if you are fighting a world champion or not.

I was a world champion on the trampoline at an international level, and gymnastics competitor.

You can be world champion, but ranked No 6 in the world, with there being four champions.

I love short track. I competed in short track, I was a world champion in 1986 but at that point in time it wasn't in the Olympic Games so I moved into long track. Short track is a blast to skate and it's a blast to watch.

Only one guy can be world champion, and so if everyone else thought they were failures you'd have no one left on the grid.

I trained and trained and went up against Kurt, then being a world champion in '94, and after that I did Tommy's tour and then my tour and all this stuff and just trying to deal with it all. And now, I've just kind of backed off a little.

I would love to earn another fight with Ronda Rousey again. She's the best in the world, and as a competitor you want to go up against the best. She's demolished everyone and I think I'm the only one that has taken her into the third round. I'm going to keep fighting and try to earn another fight with her. I'd love to become the UFC World Champion.

I'm a two-time world champion in jiu-jitsu. I can try to submit you.

Do you have any ambitions outside racing? My main ambition at the moment, whether inside or outside racing, is to become Formula 1 World Champion.

I never expected to compete at home in a UCI women's race - let alone as world champion.

I am European Games champion now as well as Olympic champion, European champion, and world champion.

I've been laughing with my brothers about it. Paul and Stephen both won the British title before me, but I'm going to be the first world champion in the family.

I'm world champion, so if I'm not ready for another fighter at 154, I don't deserve to be world champion. That's the way I look at it and what I firmly believe.

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.

When I first came in, I won a world championship pretty fast. Then I worked with John Morrison and Daniel Bryan, became King of the Ring, went back to 'SmackDown,' became the world champion again, won the Rumble, did a lot of things, went away after an injury.

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 didn't become world champion to fight Jimmy Kelly.

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.