Vasyl Lomachenko Quotes

There's a lot of ways to win a belt, but taking it from a champion is very important to me.

The best part about being a champion is going out and defending your belt, so that's what I plan on doing and doing it many times.

Getting the title shot was huge.

I'm definitely an active champion. I'm looking forward to defending my belt as many times as possible.

Any time you get a title shot, you always try to wait for it the best you can.

It means a lot to defend my title.

I don't want people to think I'm not happy when we win - I am. But there's a difference between being happy for the feeling of accomplishing something and being overjoyed and feeling, 'This is it - we conquered the world.' We didn't. We just won a game.

I'm not worried about trying to guarantee a fight for the belt, because that's automatic; it will happen.

It took me 10 fights to get the damn interim title shot and then 11 to get an undisputed shot.

Ronda knows what's like to have this belt, she knows the power this belt has.

Its Not a Belt, its a Championship Title!

I always say that every win has something that is special.

You know, you want to win and you want a ring. But when you win and you get the ring, you never really wear it.

I'm not one who's big on accolades and all those things. I did my job and I'm proud of what I did and how I did it.

You don't really work for awards, but when they come it's... nice.

Even if my film does well, you will not see me blowing my own trumpet. There is no time to sit and dwell on whether it's done well or not done well.

There would be nothing more thrilling than to win a championship.

Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I don't look at it that way.

I would never say one was more important or more gratifying than the next because there's a tremendous amount of work, as you know, that goes into winning a cup.

The joy I get from winning a major championship doesn't even compare to the feeling I get when a kid writes a letter saying: 'Thank you so much. You have changed my life.'

I turned pro as a 20-year-old, won a world title a year later, and remained a world champion ever since.

You know you've reached true success the day you become truly humble. That's the day you stop needing to prove to the world - and yourself - that you've accomplished something meaningful.

I want the real title. I can't express it enough that I want to fight for the real title. The interim title, from what I've seen... people get it, and then they take it away in a month. I just don't want to be that person.

I never thought I would get a National Award. For me, it was huge, and I got complacent.

I want to fight for the real belt, not the interim title.