World Title Quotes

A guy like AJ Styles is obviously a great talent and he's going to go out there and put on a performance that's befitting of a man who is the World Champion.

To be in an Intercontinental title match at WrestleMania, that is the stuff dreams are made of.

It was always a goal of mine to bring a world title fight back to my city of Baltimore.

The toughest time was lying in a Tenerife hospital with no-one speaking English, next to a window with the sun beating down and my leg tied up, thinking I would never box again or even walk again. It took every bit of shine off winning the world title.

My first world title fight, it surprisingly came so fast, but we knew it would come sooner or later.

When I won the first world title in 2011 I was practising six, seven or even more hours a day.

I think all great players set a target for themselves in their careers. Mine was to win a world title with Brazil, which I did twice.

250,000 people turned up in Dublin to cheer me on an open-topped bus along O'Connell St after my world title winning fight in 1985. I'll never forget the sea of smiling faces that greeted me that day.

I'm looking to fight for a world title by the end of 2019.

You decide whether you want to box on, or not. And for me of course, I wasn't going to be leaving the business until becoming a world champion, and defending it numerous times.

I want to bring a world title back to Liverpool and I would love to defend my world title in my own city.

I turned pro to be a world champion. Obviously that's the first goal, but I want to be the best in the world.

It's never been Badou Jack or James DeGale that I want to fight, it's the World title that I want; it doesn't matter to me who it is.

When I was young, I used to dream about seeing myself with the world title, with the WBC belt.

Charles Martin, we watched him. He won the IBF championship of the world, but we don't think he is anything special.

I love to fight, and I'm looking forward to being back in the ring, getting the victory, and moving on to challenge for the World Heavyweight title.

Once I have beaten Mormeck, I don't feel there'll be anything left to prove. After winning the world title, I will be recognised as the No. 1 cruiserweight in the world.

WWE is something I'm looking at. Definitely have been throwing little feelers out there to get an opportunity. Because I have achieved everything that I have set out to do in every organization except the WWE. I didn't get the world title. I got everything else but that.

When I say I am going to win a world title, I mean it; when I say I'll fight the best, I mean it; I say I'll fight Joe Calzaghe because I wanted to. When he vacated, I lost sleep over that. It had nothing to do with money or the belt. He was renowned as the best super-middleweight in the world and that is what I want to be.

I knew Funkasaurus wasn't winning the World Championship, but I knew Brodus Clay could have.

When you are challenging for the world title, you've got to go into the lion's den to try and rip that belt away from the champion.

My first goal was to become world champion and I did that against Ricky Burns at 135. Once I conquered that, I set myself another goal and another goal.

It's so important for me to bring a world title back to Houston.

To be the first Puerto Rican to win a world title in four divisions would be an achievement. Gomez, Benitez, there have been a lot of good fighters from Puerto Rico before me. When I started boxing, Tito Trinidad was our big star.

At 19, I was European champion, and at 21, I was world champion. Let's just hope Amir Khan can follow in the same footsteps. I believe he can do it 100%; he's a fantastic talent.