Joe Calzaghe Quotes

When you start boxing when you're 7 years old, that's your dream, to become world champion, and after that you want to become something bigger than world champion.

After doing boxing a little bit, I knew that I wanted to achieve what the other boxers were achieving: the championship and whatever comes with the championships.

I'm really excited about my future plans, as I'm doing things differently and currently training like a Trojan in pursuit of becoming heavyweight champion of the world.

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.

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.

Yes, I think about having a career in boxing, but I want to start from the bottom, start from zero. I want to get ranked and one day fight for a belt. I don't want to fight just to fight, for money, to go after big fights and challenge a great champion.

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 always thought I would be a boxing champion.

When I told people my plan was to knock everyone out in the amateurs and become world champion as quickly as I could as a professional, a lot of people said it was impossible.

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

I don't want to say 'grateful.' I don't want to sound like I'm just coming for the opportunity and to say I boxed in front of this many people at AT&T Stadium. I'm coming there to win and bring the title back home.

We came to 135 to snatch a belt, and I felt like I definitely wanted to do that. I'd be a two division, three-time world champion. So I thought it was a great idea to do, so we did it.

I wanted to be a world champion.

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

Since I was a boy of five or six, I had it in my mind I would be a world boxing champion.

The Commonwealth is one of three belts I want to win before going for a world title.

When I was 13 my dream was to play the U.S. Open. Now it's to win it.

I was born to be champion of the world.

My main goal was to win all the belts, and I have done that.

Flipping through the 'Toronto Star' one day in 2008, I noticed a piece about a phenomenal boxer from the Philippines who had won several different titles in several different weight divisions. Manny Pacquiao's rise from heart-crushing poverty to the top ranks of his sport was astounding.

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

My dream was always, when I was a little girl, to be number one and to win grand slams as the number one.

There are plenty of massive fights out there for me, I know that, but the goals always going to become world champion.

I'm a five-time world champion in two different weight classes. Man, it's amazing.

I could be a world champion.