we are the champions

• freddie'nin şarkı hakkındaki orijinal yorumu:
  
  freddie mercury (1978) :
  "it’s the most egotistical and arrogant song i’ve ever written. certainly it's 'a relationship that could be, but i was thinking about football when i wrote it. i wanted a participation song, something the fans could latch on to. it was aimed at the masses; i thought we'd see how they took it. it worked a treat. when we performed it at a private concert in london, the fans actually broke into a football chant between numbers. of course, i've given it more theatrical subtlety than an ordinary football chant. you know me. i certainly wasn't thinking about the press when i wrote it. i never think about the british music press these days. it was really meant to be offered the musicians the same as the fans. i suppose it could also be construed as my version of i did it my way. we have made it, and it certainly wasn't easy. no bed of roses as the song says. and it's still not easy."