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I started wrestling when I was 15 years old, and back when I was world champion, I was wrestling 7 nights a week.
From a young age, people have been touting me as a future world champion and it's nice to get that out of the way.
If you want to be that world champion, you have to be willing to beat anybody on this planet - no strings attached.
As the World Champion, every day is pretty much like Valentine's Day for me - as far as hooking up with the ladies.
I'm chasing gold. And whatever fight can get me closer to being a world champion, those are the fights that I want.
Everybody gets a bit tired now and then but that's what being a world champion is all about. You just deal with it.
My biggest moment was winning the World Series because everyone in my town was able to feel he was a world champion.
When you talk about somebody being your world champion, you couldn't ask for a better human being than Daniel Cormier.
All these nice people saying I'm going to be world champion won't make me any faster, you have to believe it yourself.
The biggest motivation for me is becoming a three-division world champion faster than any other boxer, male or female.
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 are plenty of massive fights out there for me, I know that, but the goals always going to become world champion.
I wanted to set new goals, because if you say, 'Oh, I'm world champion,' you don't grow, and you don't keep your level.
To become a world champion, to defeat Anderson Silva, to accomplish my goal in one night, it was a super surreal feeling.
I don't think I'll ever be out of wrestling, because I was that kid at 8 years old that dreamed of being a 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.
Since I've lived in Barcelona, I've played a bit of padel, so maybe I'll become World Champion at that - joking, of course!
I remember my first World Championships. I got zero turns, and I got turned multiple times, and I was still a World Champion.
I wanted to be a world champion of some sorts since I got into the industry, when I was 15 years old, and I was able to do that.
Building a better life for every child is a lot harder than becoming a world champion. Both goals take dedication and commitment.
Mayweather has been hit the least out of every world champion in history and that is the art of the sport; to hit and not get hit.
I have the most loyal fans that have been with me since I was 19 years old, when I was just a young guy becoming a world champion.
People never believe it when they find out I'm a karate world champion. They don't see me as the type because I'm small and blonde.
At the end of the day I'm still a four-time world champion at four different weight classes and I'll still be in the history books.
I'm going to be world champion and have a belt, and people will correctly be able to say I was the best instead of I was very good.
You don't forget who the real Iron Sheik is. Who the real world champion, hall of fame Jesus of the twitter is. Only one Iron Sheik.
I was three times AAU All-American World Champion and I had rough time. I was broke, no money and everything was bad for me until WWE.
My ultimate dream is just to become world champion, and not only once. So that's my dream, and it doesn't matter with which team it is.
To my mind ClickThings, and John Underwood are world champion caliber, and I am delighted to have the opportunity to partner with them.
I'm proud of my triumphs. I've dreamed of being world champion, I've had some difficult times and they've made me value the good times.
I played against men most of my life because our goal was that I wanted to reach the highest potential to be an absolute world champion.
When I become world champion, what do I need? I need opponents, I need someone to pick a venue, negotiate a date, and I need a promoter.
I have nothing bad to say about Briedis. His style is a bit boring, but I respect him. Briedis is a world champion, so he has to be good.
I don't want to go back to WWE and burn out within four or five months, and having another run as TNA world champion would feel just as good.
I don't want to become world champion and lose it immediately. I want to become world champion, take over the division and take it from there.
I feel like everybody's who fighting, young fighters and still learning and growing, that should be their goal - to be the UFC world champion.
I know deep down I'm destined to be a world champion and maybe it's to be attained in the most prestigious division in the UFC at welterweight.
I never really thought about the fact I wasn't world champion. It's all fake, so having a belt really means having extra weight in your luggage.
I made my debut on October 10, 2008, so it'll be seven years to the day that I could become world champion. That's a massive night to be crowned.
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 feel like it's harder because everyone knows I'm the three-time world champion - it's almost like people are waiting for something bad to happen.
I'm not going to say I was Britain's greatest ever world champion. I think Joe Calzaghe was the best - although I think I fought a lot better fighters.
Of course I will turn professional at some stage. Then I want to be a world champion and finish up a legend and be out of the sport by the time I am 27.
Crossing the line and being world champion, I've always dreamt about it, and now I've done it. It's quite a surreal feeling, but obviously very special.
My first goal was to become world champion and I did that against Ricky Burns at 135. Once I conquered that, I set myself another goal and another goal.
Muhammad Ali meant everything to me. He inspired me to box after watching re-runs of him winning a gold medal in the Olympics and being a world champion.
Being a fighter is no joke. Year in and year out. Especially as a world champion. All eyes are on you, and you can't go where you want, eat what you want.
I want people to look at me as a four-time world champion, in two weight categories, as a down-to-earth man of the people, not the joke that I had become.
I'm here at Madison Square Garden as world champion and have a world champion's mentality, the pressures on to defend my belt - this is what champions do.
I grew up watching the careers of Tyson and Bowe. I always wanted to follow in their footsteps in becoming a world champion. But I've always been my own man.