Lee Haney Quotes

I'd like to go out on top, preferably breaking a new world record on the Fourth of July.

I made a prediction when I was 11 that I would be world champion by the time I was 21, and I did it.

I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.

Being a world champion is something I'm already proud of and can take for the rest of my life.

I hoped to win a medal and hoped it would be gold. I knew I was good but didn't know I would be the one to score something that had never been done before.

I do want to go out on top, as a winner.

I had more pressure when I competed in Moscow. I had no pressure in Montreal because I only went to do my routines and hoping I didn't mess it up when I was on the bar. When I came back, 10,000 people were at the airport and I thought, 'Why?' because, in my mind, I hadn't done anything different from what I used to do in my gym.

I love championships. That's when I want to be at my best. I love those environments. It brings the best out of me.

Look at all the champs over time once they get the belt - they just fall off. I'm not one of those guys. The belt isn't my ultimate prize, it just looks good with all my other gold, chains, and diamonds.

Winning the second grand slam, it was a bit different. I don't have anything to prove anymore. I am at the top: number one.

I could be a world champion.

It's a huge deal to have the chance to be a four-division world champion at 26 years old.

I'm a world champion, I've beaten everyone I've been in with and I want to test myself.

It's hard being on the best team in the world.

I've experienced success, I've experienced failure, I've been a world champion, I've fought all over the world; I think I've experienced enough that I won't get in front of a million people and get gunshy.

I love being world champion.

I was world's champion in every aspect of the life. Whether it was sitting in a steak house eating a steak or getting onto the edge of the ring with two or three people standing there, it was all the same to me. I was world's champion, and for that reason, I was world's champion.

The first championship in 2005 will always be the most special but winning this fifth one was by far my best performance because of the strength of the field.

Sometimes, it doesn't matter if you're the world champ or not.

I train to be the champion.

From a very young age people have been touting me as a world champion. So it can be tough, playing in the spotlight and people expecting big things from you all the time.

From a young age, people have been touting me as a future world champion and it's nice to get that out of the way.

When I leave the game, I want to go out on top.

This is something nobody can take away from me. I'm a world champion. That's a crazy feeling.

Only when I saw I could be the first one to win five world cup races in a row did I get some extra motivation to go for it. And after winning five, I said to myself, 'Why not win them all?' The icing on the cake was the World Championship at the end.