The ultimate goal of any athlete in any sport is to become a true world champion.

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

I don't mean any disrespect, but being world champion hasn't made me happy.

All I want is to be a world champion and I will take on anyone to achieve that.

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.

I wanted to be a world champion.

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

I think I could have become an outstanding professional baseball player, but I don't think I could have reached the heights that I have in football - being one of the very top players in the game, being a world champion.

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

I'm chasing gold. And whatever fight can get me closer to being a world champion, those are the fights that I want.

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

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.

We came to 135 to snatch a belt, and I felt like I definitely wanted to do that. I'd be a two division, three-time world champion. So I thought it was a great idea to do, so we did it.

I'm a grown man, a professional, and a world champion.

For me it was a normality having a father who was a world champion. I grew up with that, so it was never extra pressure. And I've never felt the need to emerge from his shadow.

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

I do Thai boxing Mondays, jujitsu Tuesdays and Thursdays, and Wednesdays I do boxing with Mark - he was a world champion at one point. I absolutely love it. I actually have a punching bag outside in my garden. I'm obsessed with working out. I eat like a pig, so it kind of makes up for that.

I didn't have to win, and winning wasn't important to me. Being world champion wasn't important to me. What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.

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.