#world champion

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've always been working just to be a world champion and it's a dream come true. ↗

— Yohan Blake

#been #champion #come #dream #i

Liverpool have won everything but never a World Championship. I am sure in the future they will once again make the effort to win the tournament. They have had good rhythm in the Premier League this season. ↗

— Sepp Blatter

#am #championship #effort #everything #future

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. ↗

— Bobby Fischer

#championship #country #football #had #i

I think that the World Champion should try to defend the quality of play more than anyone else. ↗

— Boris Spassky

#champion #defend #else #i #i think

I've enjoyed winning races in both 500cc and MotoGP and enjoyed leading the world championship and contesting it right up until the end. ↗

— Sete Gibernau

#championship #end #enjoyed #i #leading

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 somebody asks me whether I'd rather sink the winning putt in the Ryder Cup or win a major, it's the major every day. World championship or Ryder Cup? Win a world championship. At the end of the day you're going to be remembered for what you achieve in an individual sport. ↗

— Rory McIlroy

#asks #championship #cup #day #end

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