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I did my first recording. It was called The Champ. -- Jimmy Smith
The jabroni beating, pie eating, trail-blazin', eyebrow raisin', all around, smack it down People's Champ, The Rock! -- Dwayne Johnson
My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.' -- Joe Biden
Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray. -- Matthew Arnold
It just meant a lot because it's something I've always wanted to do. I've always wanted to be a Senior National Champ. I was Junior National Champ in 2002, so now to be the senior champ is great. -- Carly Patterson
I was an avid swimmer and was state champ at age 12. -- Apolo Ohno
To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will. -- Sugar Ray Robinson
People could see in me who I am now, an Olympic champ, the best in the world. -- Cathy Freeman
Gymnastics is my whole life, and I dream of going to the Olympics and being a world champ. -- Aly Raisman
You don't know what it is to be heavyweight champ of the world until you become the heavyweight champ of the world. -- George Foreman
I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington. -- Muhammad Ali
I want to be like the athletes who seem stuck in time. When you see them at 50, you say they probably can still run like a champ. -- Tyra Banks
Ever since Mike Tyson was champ, twenty-something dudes have microwaved nachos, popped opened Natty Lights, watched sharks do unspeakable things on TV, and whispered a billion 'Whoa, dudes.' -- Stephen Rodrick
I wanted to be champ of the world, but I kept hoping something would happen to Frazier. I didn't want to fight him. Nobody wanted to fight Joe Frazier. -- George Foreman
When I won the Golden Gloves in 1960, that made me realize I had a chance. And when I won at the Olympics, that sealed it: I was the champ. -- Muhammad Ali
I wanted to become a champ - I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood - and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity. -- Olivier Martinez
Joe Frazier's life didn't start with Ali. I was a Golden Gloves champ. Gold medal in Tokyo '64. Heavyweight champion of the world long before I fought Ali in the Garden. -- Joe Frazier
People try to live vicariously through fighters, but it's one-on-one; it's primal. There's no other feeling like it. The problem for me was accepting it - that nothing compares to being champ. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We're from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers. -- Olivier Martinez
I never got into training to be an All-Ireland boxing champ or to win a belt. At the start, I just got into it to learn how to defend myself when I got into situations. -- Conor McGregor
For your friends and family, you are always a champion, but for the media and sponsors, not until you show a spark. Making a champ is more important than celebrating one. I want to be there for youngsters and help them do their best. -- Gagan Narang
I really loved the 'Sopranos' but didn't have HBO. So someone would send me tapes of the show with three or four episodes. I would watch one episode and go: 'Oh my God, I've got to watch one more.' I'd watch the whole tape and champ at the bit for the next one. -- Ted Sarandos
The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world - Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon - there are more Muhammads than anything else. When I joined the Nation of Islam and became a Muslim, they gave me the most famous name because I was the champ. -- Muhammad Ali
So when do I meet the champ? -- Chuck Wepner
He's too ugly to be the champ! -- Muhammad Ali
The world's champ should be pretty like me! -- Muhammad Ali
Play like a champ. Win like a champ. Act like a champ. -- Jordan Henderson
Kickin', ass takin' names, cashing checks, and breakin necks, the champ is here. -- John Cena
Being intercontinental champion doesn't mean you're a champ. It means you're the future. -- Cody Rhodes
This vehicle is performing like a champ. I've got a super spaceship under me. -- Robert Crippen
Clap for the heavy weight champ ME But I couldn't do it all alone WE -- Nicki Minaj
See yourself confronting your fears in your mind's eye and handling those fears like a champ. -- Les Brown
I tried to do the impossible on paper -- beat the middleweight champ coming up from 130 pounds. -- Oscar De La Hoya
Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run away when you lose. -- Nancy Kerrigan
Tape is the archiving champ and has been for decades. Reliable, less expensive than disks and available in large-scale robotic systems that store petabytes. -- Robert Harris
I was competitive in the ring and hip-hop is competitive too... I think rappers condition themselves like boxers, so they all kind of feel like they're the champ. -- Curtis Jackson
I'm definitely gonna be the People's champion ... but I just ain't gonna be the champ the way you want me to be the champ. I'm gonna be the champ the way I wanna be. -- Muhammad Ali

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