I have only prepared properly for the World Championship three or four times in my life. If I had gone about it professionally I would have won the title 10 times.
I've been on a team that won the world championship of barbecue. But barbecue's interesting, because it's one of these cult foods like chili, or bouillabaisse. Various parts of the world will have a cult food that people get enormously attached to - there's tremendous traditions; there's secrecy.
Beating Chris Eubank in 1997 was a great win and the toughest fight of my life, and beating Jeff Lacy was great, too. But Mikkel Kessler topped it, winning all the belts and fighting in front of all those fans in my home town.
When I won the first world title in 2011 I was practising six, seven or even more hours a day.
Billy Konchellah with his World Championship titles, Paul Ereng with his Olympic gold and Wilson Kipketer with his World records are my role models.
Taking part and helping West Indies win the World T20 in 2012 - I'll never forget the feeling. The celebrations afterwards were crazy, a massive all-nighter.
Having different people come together and be on a team and win a world championship is literally, I think, the definition of being American.
That's my main goal: to win a world championship.
It wasn't until '79 I won my first amateur championship, and then, by '81, I was 14, and I won my first world championship, which was amazing to me, and in a very real sense, that was the first real victory I had.
Michael [Schumacher] was a phenomenal driver but for me, Ayrton Senna was the greatest ever. If I could get one world championship that would be great; if I could win three, the same number as Ayrton did, that would be a dream. But I want to be the best driver there has ever been.
The greatest single moment Ive ever known in Detroit was Jim Northrups triple in the seventh game of the World Series in St. Louis. It was a stunning moment because not only were the Tigers winning a world championship that meant so much to an entire city, they were beating the best pitcher I ever saw-Bob Gibson.
Athens is a great place for me. It is my second home. It's where I won my first world championship medal, it's where I set my world record.
I think that winning a third World Championship would really take me up to another level in the sport.
I was making a film on Muhammad Ali in 1964, and I went to Miami to film everything around the fight for the world championship with Sonny Liston. I had the good luck of flying down to Miami, and there was one empty seat, and the guy sitting next to this empty seat was Malcolm X.
I expect The Rock would want to keep his pretty face intact for Hollywood. He better stay away from me in the ring. But honestly, anybody who wants to get into the ring with me and take the world title, just try!
Who would have ever thought that, within a couple months of getting into the WWE, that I'd be wrestling in the main event for the world championship? Then, nine months after getting here, actually being the world champion.
The world championship is what I am here for.
That feeling is the same whether you're on either side of the hundredths. Obviously, it's great to win the world championship, but if you put down that kind of skiing, it's awesome either way.
It's never been Badou Jack or James DeGale that I want to fight, it's the World title that I want; it doesn't matter to me who it is.
It doesn't matter how much experience Jayson Velez has, whether he fought for a world title or not. I'm going to see how he fights, and I'll know what to do.
It's so important for me to bring a world title back to Houston.
When you are challenging for the world title, you've got to go into the lion's den to try and rip that belt away from the champion.
When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.
An Olympic medal is much better than a world record, and so is a world championship or Commonwealth Games medal.
Charles Martin, we watched him. He won the IBF championship of the world, but we don't think he is anything special.
