I dreamed of becoming a world champion, I dreamed of becoming France's champion.
When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.
I'm not after the money or the fame. I'm after the world championship, and that's it.
Having different people come together and be on a team and win a world championship is literally, I think, the definition of being American.
You always want to have good balance. That's the key to winning a Super Bowl. You look at the teams who have won championships, you got to have balance. So, to be able to run the ball effectively and throw the ball effectively is what gives you the chance to win a world championship.
A half marathon is a good way to have a bit of fun and race against those girls and learn a bit more about them. The world half marathon is a world championship at the end of the day and it's important. I've win it twice and it's a quality event.
No world championship has been easy for me.
I became number one just after the World Championships in India. I was very young then, and I remember it was just a great feeling, my first World Championship.
The first time I won the Ring of Honor World Championship, I was a kid - I was 23 years old.
If somebody ask me to do something for my country, I will. If there's a world championship, I go.
That's my main goal: to win a world championship.
It wasn't until '79 I won my first amateur championship, and then, by '81, I was 14, and I won my first world championship, which was amazing to me, and in a very real sense, that was the first real victory I had.
Athens is a great place for me. It is my second home. It's where I won my first world championship medal, it's where I set my world record.
When I first came in, I won a world championship pretty fast. Then I worked with John Morrison and Daniel Bryan, became King of the Ring, went back to 'SmackDown,' became the world champion again, won the Rumble, did a lot of things, went away after an injury.
Who would have ever thought that, within a couple months of getting into the WWE, that I'd be wrestling in the main event for the world championship? Then, nine months after getting here, actually being the world champion.
The world championship is what I am here for.
Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.
Guess what? The world changes. eBay has defined e-commerce.
As long as karma exists, the world changes. There will always be karma to be taken care of.
People don't buy horses to ride around any more for transportation. I just think the world changes. As a business, we have to make the proper adjustments.
