Champion Quote by Joe Calzaghe

I knew I wanted to be a performer and do comedy at 5 years old. My dad's wife, Marlene Rosenbaum, was boiling water and…

— Sandra Bernhard

When I was, like, 15, I realized there could be a career in making people laugh - like, you could get paid to do…

— Matthew Perry

At 15, I went to boxing. That's when I really wanted to be a champion, so that gave me a goal in life, so…

— Gegard Mousasi

I remember, one teacher in Year 11 asked the class what everyone wanted to do when they grow up, and I said, 'I want…

— Buddy Murphy

When the kids were growing up, I think they thought the worst thing about me being a mom is that I would laugh at…

— Micah Perks

When I was 14, I told my mother I was going to drop out of high school and go do stand-up comedy. All she…

— Margaret Cho

If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going…

— Helen Reddy

I was the only woman fooling around with a camera in the streets and all the reporters laughed at me. So I became a…

— Lola Alvarez Bravo

Yeah, I thought I could be heavyweight champion of the world when I was working with Ali and Joe Frazier and Earnie Shavers and…

— Larry Holmes

And my daughter said, 'Why are you yelling at us?' and I said, 'I'm trying to discipline you!' And then she looked up at…

— Stephen Colbert

When I was younger, my sister thought it was funny to pretend to punch me in the face because my mom was concerned about…

— Amy Adams

If my mother hadn't laughed at the funny things I did, I probably wouldn't be a comic actor. After she had her first heart…

— Gene Wilder