Crowning Moment Quotes

The thing with crowns is, it isn't the putting them on that's the problem, it's the taking them off.

Winning a championship, really - that's the main goal, so if you don't do that then you can't really say that you succeeded.

Breaking news: there is only one Missy.

Becoming Miss America was one of those things. It immediately changed what I thought I was going to do with the rest of my life.

I prepared myself for Miss Universe for a very long time, for years, and I would always try to imagine what it would be like to introduce myself as Pia Wurtzbach, Miss Universe.

Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally.

When I won Miss World, I wasn't even 18, and I only remember, like, I thought of it as a day in the races or something. It didn't feel like it was Miss World of the Millennium Year, the change of the century. I didn't understand the magnitude of it for at least a couple of years.

Hosting the Miss America Pageant is a job all TV hosts dream of one day holding.

I'm glad that I get to take my final walk as the princess of 2012. ...there's nothing wrong with winning an Oscar!

To be brutally honest, when you win a title like Miss Universe, your entire life turns topsy-turvy for one year.

I was held up at gunpoint a month after I won Miss South Africa.

What makes a champion great is how he dethrones the guy before him. Look at Mike Tyson against Trevor Berbick and how he crushed him. You have to rip the title away from him.

I remember I was a dark horse at Miss Universe. No one saw Miss India coming from a mile and suddenly there she was!

Miss World victory is something very personal to me.

One minute I was a PR intern, the next I was Miss South Africa.

The Miss World journey has been incredible.

After winning the Miss India title at the age of 16, I resumed my studies.

When you are winning and go to finals, you want to win the finals.

The role of Miss World is one that my daughter has fulfilled to the best of her abilities.

Then Frodo came forward and took the crown from Faramir and bore it to Gandalf; and Aragorn knelt, and Gandalf set the White Crown upon his head and said: Now come the days of the King, and may they be blessed while the thrones of the Valar endure!

I was Miss Chicago in 1946.

I may now carry the sash of Miss Universe, but I'll forever be your Miss Philippines.

I made my debut on October 10, 2008, so it'll be seven years to the day that I could become world champion. That's a massive night to be crowned.

I think there is no set formula and there is no one path that can be taken to the crown as every one has their own way. Even when you look at past winners of Miss World, everyone was unique.

Just because my reign had already ended doesn't mean that I have to forget the things I have done as Miss Universe.