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Everyone is at their best against the champions.

I'm a professional world champion. Of course if you're a world champion, you're working harder than everybody else. You're making the commitment, and you're making the sacrifices. If it were easy, everybody would be able to do it. Everybody would be able to be world champion, but everybody can't be. Everybody doesn't have it in them.

It's an honour to be a world champion, and it can never be taken away from you.

The player can only compete with the best internationally when they've committed themselves to this goal. They have to be properly supported until that point.

The World Cup is a very important way to measure the good players, and the great ones. It is a test of a great player.

I'm world champion, so if I'm not ready for another fighter at 154, I don't deserve to be world champion. That's the way I look at it and what I firmly believe.

To finally become world champion after losing out in three previous finals is very satisfying. It shows that if you stick to your goals and work hard, you can achieve them in the end.

Only one guy can be world champion, and so if everyone else thought they were failures you'd have no one left on the grid.

I think every player should think that he's a difference maker.

It's important we win and because of the players we have we should win some matches in style.