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DAVID RUDISHA I ran like a champion. It is a great consolation to show how dominant I am. I am the Olympic champio...
JUSTIN GATLIN I will not be the world champion. But I will be the Olympic champion.
ANTOINE DENERIAZ I want to be a world and Olympic champion as an amateur.
AMIR KHAN The time would have been faster and the world record would have been threatened. But I still would h...
JUSTIN GATLIN This team is the world champion and the Olympic champion. We didn't get that for free.
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JUSTIN GATLIN I am very glad not only to complete the grand slam, but to become Olympic champion alone makes me ha...
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FERNANDO ALONSO It's not true. I'm ready to fight against everyone. I am world champion.
VITALI KLITSCHKO I want to be an Olympic champion.
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GRAEME DOTT I have one more title to defend. Every year there is a wok sliding championship. I am a two-time wor...
GEORG HACKL I definitely will be the heavyweight champion of the world, ... I am taking this boxing match very ...
CALVIN BROCK I can be a world champion. I know I can.
BRIAN JOUBERT All I know is, I can and will be the world champion.
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HULK HOGAN Coach Hart told me I could be Olympic champion.
JEREMY WARINER I want to be the light heavyweight champion of the world.
ANDRE WARD I'm not going to let my opponent take something away from me. I want it more than anyone else, and a...
MAUREEN SHEA I am after the big killers in the heavyweight division. I want to retire as the heavyweight champion...
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JOANNA HAYES He always said Mark was going to be a world champion.
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LAILA ALI If the world champion falls, they get a minus-3.
CHARLIE CYR What the United States thinks about him doesn't matter. He's the Olympic champion. So he's right.
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DRAYTON MCLANE I never looked at it that way, that I would be the first black champion. It would just be cool to be...
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I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an ...
DOROTHY HAMILL Most authoritarian regimes try to control what their citizens read and do online, but China is far a...
LUCIE MORILLON Luan is a good fighter who landed many good shots against me. I want to be thee world champion, not ...
LAMON BREWSTER I made my debut on October 10, 2008, so it'll be seven years to the day that I could become worl...
LIAM SMITH Austria is a ski nation, and everybody wants to talk or to be with an Olympic champion. It's a great...
FRITZ STROBL Yes, I am the Olympic champion, but this is not the end of it. I want all the gold that there is out...
ADELINA SOTNIKOVA Even though the symbols of my victories are being sold, what I will always retain is the knowledge t...
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They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.
JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE Act like a champion, and then become one.
STEVE BACKLEY I was quite nervous out there. I haven't been on the (Melbourne) track for almost a year now, so I n...
ASAFA POWELL I don't need a belt to make me. I make the belt. I feel great and that's all that matters. I'm still...
JAMES TONEY I don't need a belt to make me. I make the belt, ... I feel great and that's all that matters. I'm s...
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When I become champion, you know, I'll never stop being a firefighter.
STIPE MIOCIC![]()
I want to be the champion. I am confident I can do it.
LIN DAN No one expected me to become a champion.
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JANUSZ BEDNARSKI I can't even imagine what it's like and right now I'm like in shock, I can't believe...
TARA LIPINSKI Serena, for me, is one of the best players in the world. She is a great person and a great champion.
ANGELIQUE KERBER I wasn't born to be champion - I fought to be champion.
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CHAD LE CLOS I've been thinking of nothing else for the past year. It's incredible. I'm Olympic champion.
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What could be better than walking down any street in any city and knowing you're the heavyweight cha...
ROCKY MARCIANO If you're the UFC champion, you're the best in the world at what you do, and I get the oppor...
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REY MYSTERIO I have stated many times that one of my goals was to become K-1 champion. K-1 is, in our country Hol...
ALISTAIR OVEREEM Say it: “I am a champion. I am highly blessed and favored. I am sowing seeds. I am a giver. I am r...
JOHN DI LEMME![]()
Creating emotion was what my career was all about. I wanted people to laugh at me; I wanted people t...
JOHNNY WEIR![]()
As six-time world karate champion and then a movie star, I put too much trust in who I was, what I c...
CHUCK NORRIS![]()
That feeling is one of the things that keep me going. On July 6, 1998, I became the WCW heavyweight ...
BILL GOLDBERG Being a champion can become a habit. So let's establish that thing and see what it feels like to bec...
ADAM BURISH I was leery, skeptical, but the more I thought about it, the title says 'world' champion, ... What m...
LAMON BREWSTER After the Olympics and being on such a high and then losing in the World Championships, I was distra...
JADE JONES I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream
NEIL YOUNG
DAVID RUDISHA I ran like a champion. It is a great consolation to show how dominant I am. I am the Olympic champio...
JUSTIN GATLIN I will not be the world champion. But I will be the Olympic champion.
ANTOINE DENERIAZ I want to be a world and Olympic champion as an amateur.
AMIR KHAN The time would have been faster and the world record would have been threatened. But I still would h...
JUSTIN GATLIN This team is the world champion and the Olympic champion. We didn't get that for free.
HIGINIO VELEZ But the heat was loaded - the Olympic champion, world champion and European champion were all in it....
LEE MCCONNELL It would be a great time to try for the 100m world record. I'm the world champion. Of course I want ...
JUSTIN GATLIN I am very glad not only to complete the grand slam, but to become Olympic champion alone makes me ha...
MA LONG They are the current world record holder, the current world champions and the two-time Olympic champ...
ROCH PILON The mission I set out on in the beginning - to become heavyweight champion of the world, undisputed,...
LENNOX LEWIS
A player cannot become a world champion overnight. To become a champion, a player has to sacrifice a... JAHANGIR KHAN He reminds me of how Maurice did that. He showed he deserves to be the Olympic champion, now he's th...
JOHN SMITH [So what does it feel like to be the youngest ever champion?] How do I feel? ... For sure, it is a d...
FERNANDO ALONSO It's not true. I'm ready to fight against everyone. I am world champion.
VITALI KLITSCHKO I want to be an Olympic champion.
MARION JONES If I'm able to win the world championships when I'm not even at my best, then with another y...
BIANCA WALKDEN
I wanted to be a world champion. MANNY PACQUIAO I've always been working just to be a world champion and it's a dream come true.
YOHAN BLAKE In the Olympics, everything goes back to square one. The world champion or the world record holder o...
CESAR CIELO
I never really felt I had the same respect as my male team-mates. My opinion wasn't worth as muc... VICTORIA PENDLETON It's definitely a joy to be Olympic champion. To be Olympic champion you have to go out and earn it....
JENNIFER HEIL To win it is absolutely unbelievable. All next year I will be introduced as the world champion and i...
GRAEME DOTT I have one more title to defend. Every year there is a wok sliding championship. I am a two-time wor...
GEORG HACKL I definitely will be the heavyweight champion of the world, ... I am taking this boxing match very ...
CALVIN BROCK I can be a world champion. I know I can.
BRIAN JOUBERT All I know is, I can and will be the world champion.
JOE MESI
I'm the world heavyweight champion. I consider myself a citizen of the whole world. GEORGE FOREMAN
Hopefully I can become the Babe Ruth of the World Wrestling Federation and be the champion at the sa... HULK HOGAN Coach Hart told me I could be Olympic champion.
JEREMY WARINER I want to be the light heavyweight champion of the world.
ANDRE WARD I'm not going to let my opponent take something away from me. I want it more than anyone else, and a...
MAUREEN SHEA I am after the big killers in the heavyweight division. I want to retire as the heavyweight champion...
ANTONIO TARVER I definitely will be the heavyweight champion of
the world, ... I am taking this boxing match ...
CALVIN BROCK
I set out in the beginning to be the heavyweight champion of the world. From a very young age, I was... TYSON FURY I don't really realize that I am the Olympic champion. I still don't feel it. I still feel tense. I ...
WANG MENG
When I was a boxer, I wanted to be champion of the world, not the richest man in the world. GEORGE FOREMAN My personal story has always been about perseverance and always getting up when I fall. Maybe I'...
JEREMY ABBOTT
My dream is to be World Lightweight Champion in the UFC. Have more money than I know what to do with... CONOR MCGREGOR
I love short track. I competed in short track, I was a world champion in 1986 but at that point in t... BONNIE BLAIR
I never started in boxing to be a British champion or a world champion. There are loads of world cha... TYSON FURY
I am not the champion of lost causes, but the champion of causes not yet won. NORMAN THOMAS He's an Olympic champion, so he's right.
ERBEN WENNEMARS Say it - “I am a champion. I am a champion chooser. I choose to commit to change because I’m wil...
JOHN DI LEMME
I believe in myself. I want to be a fighter. I want to be heavyweight champion of the world. GERRY COONEY
As an Olympic champion gymnast, I have always stayed involved in my sport. NADIA COMANECI
I was a world champion on the trampoline at an international level, and gymnastics competitor. DAN MILLMAN
My goal is to be the undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the World. EVANDER HOLYFIELD I can learn a lot from Paul. I need him to get his opinions. There are other good runners ? the Olym...
HAILE GEBRSELASSIE I have been used to that. It happened frequently. It is normal to have the Olympic champion tested.
LIU XIANG
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. GEORGE SANTAYANA Whoever wins this is the world real basketball champion.
BEN WALLACE
Upon awakening in the morning, I wondered if the proceedings of the night before had been a dream. I... GENE TUNNEY When I am in that lane, and I hear, 'Caster Semenya from South Africa,' I always know I am d...
CASTER SEMENYA
Whatever luck I had, I made. I was never a natural athlete, but I paid my dues in sweat and concentr... CHUCK NORRIS
We have a new, real world champion here today, GARRY KASPAROV What I can tell them is the way you become an Olympic champion is to start working now. I tell them ...
RAFER JOHNSON It was not meant for me to be the world champion. If I was going to get beat, I was going to beat on...
JOANNA HAYES He always said Mark was going to be a world champion.
HENRY RAMIREZ Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be th...
DALEY THOMPSON It's an honour to be a world champion, and it can never be taken away from you.
CAROLINE BUCHANAN
I'm a professional world champion. Of course if you're a world champion, you're working ... LAILA ALI If the world champion falls, they get a minus-3.
CHARLIE CYR What the United States thinks about him doesn't matter. He's the Olympic champion. So he's right.
ERBEN WENNEMARS I think that the World Champion should try to defend the quality of play more than anyone else.
BORIS SPASSKY We're very, very excited about Preston Wilson. His enthusiasm is as sky high as ours is. He wants to...
DRAYTON MCLANE I never looked at it that way, that I would be the first black champion. It would just be cool to be...
ANTRON BROWN
I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an ... DOROTHY HAMILL Most authoritarian regimes try to control what their citizens read and do online, but China is far a...
LUCIE MORILLON Luan is a good fighter who landed many good shots against me. I want to be thee world champion, not ...
LAMON BREWSTER I made my debut on October 10, 2008, so it'll be seven years to the day that I could become worl...
LIAM SMITH Austria is a ski nation, and everybody wants to talk or to be with an Olympic champion. It's a great...
FRITZ STROBL Yes, I am the Olympic champion, but this is not the end of it. I want all the gold that there is out...
ADELINA SOTNIKOVA Even though the symbols of my victories are being sold, what I will always retain is the knowledge t...
BJORN BORG
They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World. JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE Act like a champion, and then become one.
STEVE BACKLEY I was quite nervous out there. I haven't been on the (Melbourne) track for almost a year now, so I n...
ASAFA POWELL I don't need a belt to make me. I make the belt. I feel great and that's all that matters. I'm still...
JAMES TONEY I don't need a belt to make me. I make the belt, ... I feel great and that's all that matters. I'm s...
JAMES TONEY
When I become champion, you know, I'll never stop being a firefighter. STIPE MIOCIC
I want to be the champion. I am confident I can do it. LIN DAN No one expected me to become a champion.
FEDOR EMELIANENKO All [of the] team has to step up ... of course our kids who are experienced - we have an Olympic Cha...
JANUSZ BEDNARSKI I can't even imagine what it's like and right now I'm like in shock, I can't believe...
TARA LIPINSKI Serena, for me, is one of the best players in the world. She is a great person and a great champion.
ANGELIQUE KERBER I wasn't born to be champion - I fought to be champion.
BECKY LYNCH
An Olympic medal is much better than a world record, and so is a world championship or Commonwealth ... CHAD LE CLOS I've been thinking of nothing else for the past year. It's incredible. I'm Olympic champion.
ANTOINE DENERIAZ
What could be better than walking down any street in any city and knowing you're the heavyweight cha... ROCKY MARCIANO If you're the UFC champion, you're the best in the world at what you do, and I get the oppor...
DANIEL CORMIER
For me, the people who doubt me only fuel me to prove them wrong. I want to prove to them that I am ... REY MYSTERIO I have stated many times that one of my goals was to become K-1 champion. K-1 is, in our country Hol...
ALISTAIR OVEREEM Say it: “I am a champion. I am highly blessed and favored. I am sowing seeds. I am a giver. I am r...
JOHN DI LEMME
Creating emotion was what my career was all about. I wanted people to laugh at me; I wanted people t... JOHNNY WEIR
As six-time world karate champion and then a movie star, I put too much trust in who I was, what I c... CHUCK NORRIS
That feeling is one of the things that keep me going. On July 6, 1998, I became the WCW heavyweight ... BILL GOLDBERG Being a champion can become a habit. So let's establish that thing and see what it feels like to bec...
ADAM BURISH I was leery, skeptical, but the more I thought about it, the title says 'world' champion, ... What m...
LAMON BREWSTER After the Olympics and being on such a high and then losing in the World Championships, I was distra...
JADE JONES I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream
NEIL YOUNG
