Champion Mindset Quotes

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

Experiencing pain in your muscles and aching, that's what makes the muscle grow. and that divides one from being a champion and one from not being a champion. If you can go through this pain barrier, you may get to be a champion. If You can't go through it, forget it.

What it is saying is that someone who was a world champion and who takes care of himself with a 17-year rest and applies the proper training techniques and perseverance could be successful.

Experiencing this pain in my muscles and aching and going on and on is my challenge. The last three or four reps is what makes the muscles grow. This area of pain divides a champion from someone who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens. I have no fear of fainting. I do squats until I fall over and pass out. So what? It's not going to kill me. I wake up five minutes later and I'm OK. A lot of other athletes are afraid of this. So they don't pass out. They don't go on.

Seeing myself as a champion in WWE is something I've seen from the first day I stepped into the Universe and the realm of the company.

When you're champion, you feel you're the center of the world.

As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.

Retiring as the champion and being the only athlete to ever do that, I think goals like that are set in the mind. I want to make that happen.

Look, I never enjoy risking my tournament life with a marginal hand, but if you want to be a poker champion, that's exactly what needs to be done. Just don't do it too often!

I have dreamed of being a champion in WWE, and there's nothing I won't do, no length I won't go to, in order to keep it that way.

This is what champions do: champions defend. They always say you're not a champion until you defend your title.

Ali was a legend of our sport. For me as a kid, he inspired me to represent myself like a champion in and out of the ring.

My dad was a three-time world heavyweight champion, so I want to be a three-time world heavyweight champion.

The environment that creates winners is almost always made up of winners.

Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits.

There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.

Americans love winners, so if we win we know we'll get a lot of support.

I’m just a big, hairy, American winning machine!

What I've learned in life is that you can't always win, especially in sport, but you can be a true champion for everything you did to get there.

To win takes a complete commitment of mind and body. When you can't make that commitment, they don't call you a champion anymore.

I didn't become world champion to fight Jimmy Kelly.

Carry yourself like a champion now so when you get there, it's not a surprise.

I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.

All the world loves a winner and has no time for a loser.

Listen, you can't just come in to boxing and be a world champion. You've got to be born with it.