Quotes About Perseverance

I want to be a champion.

I tried all my life to be a champion.

No matter what happens, I will always be the champion.

What I want is to leave this sport as champion. I want to be the only featherweight champion. That's when I'll leave the sport.

I want to be the middleweight champion.

What I've learned in life is that you can't always win, especially in sport, but you can be a true champion for everything you did to get there.

The goal of this, I would like to think, for everybody, is to become champion.

I want the chance to show Barrera and the world that I am a true champion.

I don't want to lose to an average champion. I want to lose to a great champion.

Will I become a UFC champion some day? I know I will.

In order to be the champion, you've got to play the best, you've got to beat the best.

I'm Joanna Champion.

My goal is to be the best champion possible and to do that I have to go against the best.

I want to retire as champion, and I will make that happen.

I'm a champion and I fight like a champion with or without that belt.

At the end of the day, great champions can take a good loss and great champions can take a good win, just like they take a loss.

We will only celebrate when we are champions and not before.

In difficult moments, champions come through, and not by listening to what is being said.

It seems easy, but to win three Champions Leagues in four years is incredible.

When you are in the second position and you want to be champions, you are always under pressure.

If you are champions, you have to work harder than before.

We just must make sure we give everything we can to become champions.

People always say, 'Oh, there haven't been many black champions,' but on the other hand, there are a whole lot of white people that never won a belt either.

I was like 'You know what? I'm training with these champions. Guys like Georges St-Pierre, Rashad Evans, Nate Marquardt... Let me give this MMA thing a shot.'