I was the youngest world champion in history when I won the WSOP in 1989 at age 24.

Having been a world champion, I would love to go on and train a world champion too.

I would like to be the youngest UFC world champion. I believe I can accomplish that.

I've had the dream of being a world champion since I put on my first pair of gloves.

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

When Vince McMahon said I was going to be a future world champion, he didn't say when.

I've been world champion and number one at the same time, which is a brilliant feeling.

I'm proud of what my brother has done. His success motivates me. He's a world champion.

I'm a world champion, I've beaten everyone I've been in with and I want to test myself.

To have a heavyweight world champion from Manchester is something you can only dream of.

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

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

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

It's a huge deal to have the chance to be a four-division world champion at 26 years old.

My goal is to prosper and be a world champion and make money and retire and say I did it.

There is a world of difference between being a reality TV star and a world champion boxer.

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

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

I think Cormier's one of the greatest to ever do it. Two-time, two-division world champion.

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

I respect Haye as a man and for being a former two-weight world champion. But not as a boxer.

This is something nobody can take away from me. I'm a world champion. That's a crazy feeling.

The way I look at it is I had to retire as world champion with my last match at WrestleMania.

Being a world champion was great, don't get me wrong, but it also caused me a lot of problems.

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

Being a world champion is something I'm already proud of and can take for the rest of my life.

I think that the World Champion should try to defend the quality of play more than anyone else.

Listen, you can't just come in to boxing and be a world champion. You've got to be born with it.

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

I want people to say that Jack Swagger/Jake Hager is a world champion in MMA and in pro wrestling.

I got to world champion, No 1-rated fighter in the division and managed to earn from the defences.

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

Trout is no journeyman. He's a former world champion, someone who has a name and he comes to fight.

My parents can't always travel with me because my little brother is a world champion on dirt bikes.

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

I made a prediction when I was 11 that I would be world champion by the time I was 21, and I did it.

Being a world champion again is just a step closer toward my goal. I want to be a pay-per-view star.

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

I am a dreamer. And what I dream of is to become Olympic champion, world champion, world record holder.

I turned pro as a 20-year-old, won a world title a year later, and remained a world champion ever since.

I knew I had the ability to become a world champion, I knew I did. I knew I just needed the opportunity.

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

My goal and path is always to get to the mountaintop and be a world champion, and leave a fighting legacy.

Once I'm world Champion we can think about what fights are fun rather than fights that need to take place.

This has been a dream of mine since I was a kid... I'm passionate about being a world champion, believe me.

It's my job to show up, make weight, and prepare to be a world champion if that opportunity presents itself.

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

When I was 14, I told my careers adviser that I was going to be a world champion boxer. Of course she laughed.

My self-belief, really is what kept me going, I always believed I could be a great champion, a world champion.

By 2002 we might be championship challengers. But I want to race fast. I want to become world champion myself.

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