Quotes About Ambition

At six years old, I told my dad that I would be world champion, and on Nov. 26, 2011, I am.

I always wanted to be a world champion, all my life. At 13, I told my mom I would be a world champion.

For a long time, I felt like my identity was to fight. My identity was to be a world champion. That almost defined me.

There's no better way to start a year than to become the first-ever three-time ROH World Champion.

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 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.

When I told people my plan was to knock everyone out in the amateurs and become world champion as quickly as I could as a professional, a lot of people said it was impossible.

I had the one goal to become world champion for so long and now that I've achieved it, I thought that it was the top of the mountain. But now that I'm up there, it's not.

Thankfully I still have things I want to achieve so I can just set more goals. Now I want to unify, I want to have big fights and then one day move up and become a two-weight world champion.

I turned pro to be a world champion. Obviously that's the first goal, but I want to be the best in the world.

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 started in boxing to be a British champion or a world champion. There are loads of world champions in Britain, and if you mention them to someone out there on the street, nobody knows who they are.

I want to be world champion, and that's why I've worked for an entire lifetime to get here.

Obviously, every fighter wants to be the world champion, and that's what I want to achieve.

At the end of the day, I want to be a world champion.

When I see Big E, I clearly see someone who could be world champion. The guy is on another level.

I know people didn't think I'd become a world champion - even people probably in my own camp, my own team, didn't think I'd become a world champion this quickly.

It's a quality you need to be a world champion; you have to have that killer instinct.

It's a dream of mine to be a mixed martial arts world champion.

It's not been a bad life, and I do know that I could never have been a world champion. All I ever wanted to do was be the best I could with what I had, which wasn't very much, really. And that's what I think I did.

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.

Financially, I've done very well doing what I do. I've got plenty of money in the bank. I've got gigs with FOX doing analyst work, media work. The UFC has been very kind to me. Ultimately, however, I want to be world champion. I have to achieve that to validate my entire career.

I worked in factories, slaughterhouses, as an upholsterer. I did demolition work, was a postman, was a tiler, a plasterer. I even sold double-glazing door-to-door. But I always dreamed of being a world champion, first of all as a boxer.