Most scenes together: Maggie Fitzgerald & Frankie Dunn (6)
Million Dollar Baby quotes
Page 1 of 2Sally, what am, I doing wrong? everytime I get close she's on me!
110, get a job punk.
You forgot the rule. Now, what is the rule?
Keep my left up?
Is to protect yourself at all times. Now, what is the rule?
Protect myself at all times.
Good. Good.
Father, that was a great sermon... made me weep.
Father Horvak What's confusing you this week?
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.
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?
How many eyes do you need to finish this fight?
She's tough, I can't go inside, I can't get close enough to hit her.
You know why that is?
Why?
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]
I've got nobody but you, Frankie.
Then you've got me.
Working the bag, boss.
I'm not your boss and that bag's working you.
You're gonna leave me again?
Never.
A movie is not good or bad because of its content, but because of how it handles its content. Million Dollar Baby is classical in the clean, clear, strong lines of its story and characters, and had an enormous emotional impact.
Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun Times)
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.
Anybody can lose one fight, anybody can lose once, you'll come back from this you'll be champion of the world.
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.
Girlie tough ain't enough.