#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. ↗

— Sete Gibernau

#champion #difficult #difficult times #dreamed #good

If I would have listened to other people back in 2000 telling me I should have stopped playing basketball because of a kidney disease, I wouldn't have won a world championship. ↗

— Alonzo Mourning

#basketball #because #championship #disease #i

I wasn't happy with my performance at the World Championships in Daegu. I had an unbelievable race in the heats, but misjudged the semi and finished last. ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#finished #had #happy #heats #i

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. ↗

— Kimi Raikkonen

#any #become #champion #formula #formula 1

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 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 got to experience a world championship with some great teammates. ↗

— Kirk Gibson

#experience #got #great #i #some

Nowadays it would be reasonable to have an annual world championship. ↗

— Boris Spassky

#championship #nowadays #reasonable #world #world championship

On the other hand, chess is a mass sport now and for chess organisers shorter time control is obviously more attractive. But I think that this control does not suit World Championship matches. ↗

— Boris Spassky

#championship #chess #control #does #hand