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.
A.J. Styles
That's my main goal: to win a world championship.
Aaron Donald
One and done, Home Run Derby champion. It was a cool experience. I enjoyed it all, but I don't think I really need to go out there and do it again.
Aaron Judge
It's always been something I've wanted to try and do, to take Wales to a major championship.
Aaron Ramsey
You have to give 100 percent in the Champions League, as you're up against the biggest teams.
I grew up watching the Olympics and did some athletics for my school, winning the Welsh pentathlon championship.
Senator Wyden continues to be the Senate's truest champion of an open Internet.
Aaron Swartz
Planned Parenthood has consistently claimed to 'care' for women 'no matter what' and champion 'women's rights' - yet they frantically silence any woman who thinks women deserve better than Planned Parenthood.
Abby Johnson
To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
Abby Wambach
As soon as I started to realize that I could make a living playing professional soccer, I went to that place where I could torture myself because I knew it would make me better for the championship game.
I don't care how many championships you've won or how many records you've broken - if you've had a hand in pushing forward not only a game but women in sport's movement, then I think that's pretty darn good.
Having different people come together and be on a team and win a world championship is literally, I think, the definition of being American.
The minute you step off that podium is the minute you start preparing for the next world championship. That's kind of how I work. You celebrate for a brief moment, then you move on.
A club that plays in the Champions League is the goal, but I don't have a particular one in mind.
Abdoulaye Doucoure
I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.
Action Bronson
People wonder what you are going to do after you've won the Champions League three times? Win it again, if I can.
Ada Hegerberg
Generally speaking, ROH championship matches are hard fought and grueling, and the fans are really into it. The ROH Championship means a lot to me for those reasons.
Adam Cole
When you look back at the former Ring of Honor world champions, whether it be Daniel Bryan, CM Punk, Samoa Joe, Nigel McGuiness, the list goes on and on. These are the guys that built the lineage and importance of the Ring of Honor world championship.
The first time I won the Ring of Honor World Championship, I was a kid - I was 23 years old.
There's no better way to start a year than to become the first-ever three-time ROH World Champion.
The list of guys who have held the ROH championship, that's an elite group of guys.
But when it comes down to it, I'm a guy who feels like I should be a champion in NXT.
Being the first-ever three-time ROH world champion is pretty surreal.
To win a major championship - I think, at the end of the day, that's what a golfer's career is based upon.
Coinbase is 'the' brand in the Bitcoin space. Their founder Brian Armstrong was amongst the first good entrepreneurs to emerge in this space. While others championed ideological or underground/illicit interests, Brian saw an opportunity to change the world for the better and build a big business out of it.
Originals are nonconformists, people who not only have new ideas but take action to champion them. They are people who stand out and speak up. Originals drive creativity and change in the world. They're the people you want to bet on.
Dad used to reminisce about the good old days when Everton won the old first division championship and the FA Cup back in the 1970s and 80s but they weren't quite so good when I started supporting them.
As China's retailing champion, Alibaba makes Amazon look like a company that carefully picks its spots. Sure, Amazon does e-tailing. So does Alibaba.
Olympic champions should be 100 per cent athletes who have made the sacrifices.
In a day and age when there are so many culinary competitions - ranging from contests of taste to those of technique - The World Food Championships will be the ultimate food competition.
I like being the people's champion when it comes to dining.
I have no great urge to be minister of this or minister of that, but instead would feel incredible blessed to have the opportunity to be a champion for a constituency and fight for their cause.
I think a good MP is someone who cares for their community and becomes their champion, which is why I will make my home in any seat I am lucky enough to be selected for. Looks play no part in the equation, what matters is your ideas and connecting them to the electorate.
1988 Olympic Champion Brian Boitano was famous for doing a Lutz with one arm over his head. And I wanted to build on that.
We know how hard it is to get to the playoffs in general, and then to get to the NFC Championship Game. You just never know if you'll have the opportunity again, so you really want to make the most of it.
Money is good and everything, but championships are what it's about.
On teams that have won championships and got to the big game, there's a certain vibe and feel in that locker room. Everyone talks about how there's a brotherhood in that locker room, there's not a lot of dissent, there's not guys that go off on their own. It's a team atmosphere.
Yes, I am the Olympic champion, but this is not the end of it. I want all the gold that there is out there, everything that exists in figure skating. In all events, in all competitions.
Since the age of four, I've been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger.
Sure, there's pressure when you have one dart at double top when there's a world 'championship to be won, but real 'pressure is what our troops are doing in 'Afghanistan.
I was very proud after winning the World Championship the first time, so to win it three times, and consecutively, would be great.
I think that winning a third World Championship would really take me up to another level in the sport.
The worst I encountered was Peter Manley talking behind me as I threw during our world championship quarter-final back in 2006.
It was very hard when the newspapers were chasing me. It was also very weird. I know I'd just become world champion but shouldn't they be following someone who has done something wrong?
I'm two times world champion, I've got nothing to prove to anybody.
Everybody gets a bit tired now and then but that's what being a world champion is all about. You just deal with it.
One World Championship is not enough. Probably eight is not enough. I've set a target of 10 and I'd like between eight and 10.
I always wanted to be a world champion, all my life. At 13, I told my mom I would be a world champion.
At the end of the day, great champions can take a good loss and great champions can take a good win, just like they take a loss.
I came from nothing and I have a chance to do something that happens once in a lifetime. There are only a couple people who can wake up and say that they're a world champion, a multimillionaire, and a successful superstar.
