#world champion

I vowed I would do everything I could to stop the Isle of Man counting towards the world championship. And it was stopped, so they love me in the Isle of Man. ↗

— Barry Sheene

#could #counting #everything #i #isle

I trained and trained and went up against Kurt, then being a world champion in '94, and after that I did Tommy's tour and then my tour and all this stuff and just trying to deal with it all. And now, I've just kind of backed off a little. ↗

— Elvis Stojko

#against #backed #being #champion #deal

I want to thank America. You opened your heart so I could enter. Thank you everybody who lives in the United States, who saw me grow into becoming a world champion. ↗

— Roberto Duran

#becoming #champion #could #enter #everybody

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. ↗

— Dwayne Johnson

#awesome #being #champion #doing #entertaining

It's torturous what my siblings put me through. I can take any Olympic final, I can fight in a world championship and fall behind and win in sudden death, but when it comes to my siblings, it's out of my control. There's not much I can do. ↗

— Steven Lopez

#behind #championship #comes #control #death

I wanted to be a world champion. ↗

— Manny Pacquiao

#i #wanted #world #world champion

They were ridiculous times. After I won my world championship in 1976, I went to Japan. ↗

— Barry Sheene

#championship #i #japan #ridiculous #times

I love short track. I competed in short track, I was a world champion in 1986 but at that point in time it wasn't in the Olympic Games so I moved into long track. Short track is a blast to skate and it's a blast to watch. ↗

— Bonnie Blair

#champion #competed #games #i #i love

My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#championships #father #fun #gave #good

I've always been working just to be a world champion and it's a dream come true. ↗

— Yohan Blake

#been #champion #come #dream #i