Ranking System Quotes

I'm the former lightweight champion. I want to fight one of the top guys. I don't want to fight a guy who isn't ranked.

You can be world champion, but ranked No 6 in the world, with there being four champions.

As a World Champion, it is important that you face the #1 contender. That is what makes it sport and not entertainment; otherwise, what are the girls fighting at 145 lbs. training to work towards if they know they will never be given a title shot, even if they become the best in the world?

The more games I will play, the faster I will be back on a top spot in the world rankings.

I don't care where I'm at in the heavyweight division. As long as I win enough, so they keep me. That's about it.

Being world No 1 would be fantastic but you'd like to do it by finishing the year as No 1 without anything happening off the table to someone else's ranking.

For me right now I think being the world number one is a bigger deal than being the world champion because I think it shows better who plays the best chess. That sounds self-serving but I think it's also right.

Nobody can really dominate like Stephen Hendry or Steve Davis. The players are just too good for that.

I'd rather have too many good guys than not enough. It's a nice problem. They sort themselves out because when guys fight each other, they determine who deserves the title shot, not me.

I've never thought too much of 'Rolling Stone.' The first thing I'd do is look at about 50 or 60 of the drummers they have ahead of me and go, 'Oh yeah, right!'

I don't necessarily know about the rankings. I always like to look at it as, it's the person with the belt, and it's everybody else.

It's amazing to go World No. 1 on a win. I think is something I've always wanted to do.

I've been on a 1-15 team.

As a 9th grader, I competed with the high school kids and out of 600 people, I finished 10th.

People confuse being world No. 1 with winning a Major championship.

There are so many really good players in the men's game that no one person can dominate year after year.

I win by submissions, knockouts. There's guys ranked above me, but no one's interested in seeing them fight. They want to see me fight.

Goals? I've achieved the main ones of winning the World Championship and being world number one.

It sounds strange to be world champion at the Crucible.

I know lots of people who climb very high in the rankings without winning a single title.

A fighter is a fighter and once they're in the top five in the world, you can't say one might not be ready.

The bad thing about the [tennis] calendar is how it is made and obligates you to play tournaments all year. If you want to achieve the most you can (and) go as high up (in the rankings) as you can, you have to play from the start to the finish because there are important tournaments from the beginning to the end.

I don't believe in rankings. Sometimes the rankings surprise me. I don't think it's fair to judge a team on the basis of rankings.

There's no point in fighting guys when there's no structure, there's no rhyme or reason to who gets the title shot.

They should just put 'two' beside everybody's name, you know? Because there's only No. 1 guy out there, and that's the champion.