Championship Status Quotes

I beat Olympians.

You can be world champion, but ranked No 6 in the world, with there being four champions.

I want the Intercontinental title to be seen as more than just a 'mid-card belt.' The Intercontinental Champion used to be seen as a threat to the WWE Champion. My goal is to return the Intercontinental Championship to that level of importance.

I want to set myself as a real legend in the sport, like Phelps and Mark Spitz are remembered worldwide. I want people to say, like they say of Ronaldo that he is the best soccer player in the world, I want them to say Chad Le Clos is the best swimmer in the world.

You can't be considered a great player unless you win Wimbledon. That's the way it is.

Honestly, to me, the WWE championship and the Universal championship are the same thing. They're the top championships on the respective brands.

The top 10 is really a media thing anyway unless you're the champion, but otherwise, it's always speculation.

People view you differently when you're a world champion.

Anytime you can be the face of the UFC is so huge, a great honor, and I would do everything I could to keep it that way.

People gotta realize as a fighter you want to become a champion because you get paid way more money. So the belt is very intriguing for that reason.

Once you're a NASCAR champion, you're kind of in another elite division instead of just being a competitor or a race winner.

The Masters, while it has slowly gained equal importance as a major, isn't really the championship of anything.

You can win a world title now ranked as seven, eight or nine in the world, and say you are a champion, because you have a version of it.