The Champ (1979) Poster

(1979)

Jon Voight: Billy Flynn

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  • [Billy just sees Annie after 7 years] 

    Billy : You know what I told him? I told him that you died, that you were killed in a car wreck. That you were a tramp and we're better off without you. You're dead! Do you understand that? You're dead! The kid's got no mother!

    Annie : I am his mother.

    Billy : You're dead! He's got no mother!

    Annie : I'm here, I am his mother.

  • Billy : [SPOILER] 

    [the Champ is dying after winning the big fight] 

    Billy : T.J. - T.J., where are you?

    T.J. : Here I am.

    Billy : Yeah. T.J. - Annie was here tonight, T.J. Wasn't that a nice thing?

    T.J. : Yeah.

    Billy : You invited her, didn't you? Huh?

    T.J. : I wrote to her. You said to.

    Billy : Yeah. It was nice of her to come. You know, TJ, you know, you're... Annie and me. We did some silly things. Who knows why people do what they do? Nobody knows that, but she's... she's a good person. You know that. You happy, kid? I won the fight. You happy?

    T.J. : Yeah.

    Billy : Yeah.

    T.J. : The Champ...

    Billy : Yeah.

    T.J. : Always comes through.

    Billy : That's right. That's right. Right.

    [he dies] 

  • [Billy and T.J. are playing in the ocean] 

    T.J. : Champ, did you love her?

    Billy : Who?

    T.J. : Annie.

    Billy : Of course I loved her, that's why we had you.

  • Billy : No smoking in the barn area. What do you want?

    Annie : T.J.'s Timmy, isn't he?

    Billy : Yeah, T.J. is Timmy. So you figured it out, so what? Even a dumb horse knows her own foal.

  • Billy : Comeback? Comeback's for has beens.

  • Annie : I'm not an angel in heaven.

    Billy : Who says?

    Annie : I'm not. I'm real. I'm here. I'm a woman who - suffers.

  • Billy : What about my heart! What about my mind! What about me! What about me? Billy Flynn. Me! You know, what about me? I'm real too!

    Annie : What's the matter, Billy? What is it?

    Billy : You could always come back. We"ll take you back You... We'll give you a second chance.

  • Billy : A man who can't take off his own pants, ain't a man.

  • T.J. : I've been going crazy!

    Billy : Of course, you've been going crazy. You know why you're going crazy? Because - its hereditary! Its in your blood. You got a crazy father.

  • Billy : Hey, do you know what? You looked pretty good up there. I couldn't figure out what the hell you were talking about, but you got it across pretty good.

    Annie : Billy...

    Billy : You're a big shot, now.

    Annie : Billy, do you know what? There aren't any big shots.

  • Billy : You know, you always did have a head on your shoulders. That's one of the things I liked about you. That you had a head on your shoulders.

    Annie : Until I wanted to use it.

  • Annie : How's the horse? Is the horse alright?

    Billy : The horse is just fine. In five minutes they'll probably shoot it.

  • T.J. : Okay, Champ.

    Billy : I don't want you to call me Champ no more.

    T.J. : Why?

    Billy : A Champ don't use his fists nowhere but in the ring.

  • Billy : Get your pants on! We're gonna be arrested for nude bathing!

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