Million Dollar Baby quotes

28 total quotes

Eddie Dupris
Frankie Dunn
Maggie Fitzgerald
Quotes about Million Dollar Baby

View Quote Frankie likes to say that boxing is an unnatural act, that everything in boxing is backwards: sometimes the best way to deliver a punch is to step back... But step back too far and you ain't fighting at all.

View Quote Frankie Dunn: You forgot the rule. Now, what is the rule?
Maggie Fitzgerald: Keep my left up?
Frankie: Is to protect yourself at all times. Now, what is the rule?
Maggie: Protect myself at all times.
Frankie: Good. Good.

View Quote Anybody can lose one fight, anybody can lose once, you'll come back from this you'll be champion of the world.

View Quote Maggie: Working the bag, boss.
Frankie: I'm not your boss and that bag's working you.

View Quote Maggie: (getting pushed into the stool on her corner. Her opponent had just scored at least two direct punches that popped her head back) She's tough, I can't go inside, I can't get close enough to hit her.
Frankie: You know why that is?
Maggie: Why?
Frankie: Cause she's a better fighter than you are, that's why. She's younger, she's stronger, and she's more experienced. Now, what are you gonna do about it?
[Next round starts. Maggie knocks her out in few seconds]

View Quote All fighters are pig-headed some way or another: some part of them always thinks they know better than you about something. Truth is: even if they're wrong, even if that one thing is going to be the ruin of them, if you can beat that last bad out of them... they ain't fighters at all.

View Quote Frankie: Father, that was a great sermon... made me weep.
Father Horvak: What's confusing you this week?
Frankie: Oh, it's the same old, 'one God-three God' thing.
Father Horvak: Frankie, most people figure out by kindergarten that it's about faith.
Frankie: Is it sort of like Snap Crackle and Pop, all rolled into one big box?
Father Horvak: You're standing outside my church, comparing God to Rice Krispies?

View Quote I saw your last fight Shawrelle. You spent so much face time on the canvas, you thought the canvas had titties.

View Quote 110, get a job punk.

View Quote (Argues) I ain't doing great, I'm losing!!!

View Quote Girlie tough ain't enough.

View Quote If there's magic in boxing, it's the magic of fighting battles beyond endurance, beyond cracked ribs, ruptured kidneys and detached retinas. It's the magic of risking everything for a dream that nobody sees but you.

View Quote Maggie: I've got nobody but you, Frankie.
Frankie: Then you've got me.

View Quote (retreating to her corner after trading punches with her opponent. Sadly, the amount she received was more than that of which she threw) Sally, what am, I doing wrong? everytime I get close she's on me!

View Quote I had what I wanted.. I had it all ..