Radio personality Bobby Bones is crediting good, old fashioned hard work for winning the season 27 finale of "Dancing With the Stars."
Bones and his pro partner, Sharna Burgess, appeared live on "Good Morning America" alongside finalists Milo Manheim, Alexis Ren and Evanna Lynch just hours after Bones' big win.
"To everyone who is told 'no,' I just want to say that it doesn't matter where you're coming from because we came from the lowest spot," Bones said on "GMA." "It wasn't that we were looking to weeks or looking to even the finale, it was practice by practice and every single practice, when we finished practice, we were like, 'OK, today is done.' We did it one day at a time, one climb at a time."
He went on, "I've never danced before and every single person on this is a better dancer than me, including George [Stephanopoulos]."
Throughout the competition, Bones and Burgess were never among the highest-scoring couples but they eventually emerged as fan favorites. The judges saluted Bones as "the people's champion" and praised his ability to entertain.
Bones' only perfect scores of the competition came after his and Burgess' freestyle to the song "The Greatest Show."
"I had the best coach and best teammate who figured out how to teach me," Bones said of Burgess. "I didn't know what I was doing at all and she taught me and we're here because of that."
Burgess said she and Bones were not focused on being the best dancers on the floor.
"Like Bobby said, it was week to week, practice to practice, are we getting better and what more can we do?" she said. "I love that Bobby really lives up to that. Fail until you don't. That was really our message the whole season."
Bones once joked that if he made it far on "DWTS," ABC would offer him "The Bachelor" next.
"I'm in," he said.
ABC News' Andrea Dresdale contributed to this report.