I wantcha to stick and move...He doesn't know it's a damn show. He
thinks it's a damn fight. Now finish this bum and let's go home.
Rocky Balboa
Sylvester Stallone · 33 quotes
Mickey Goldmill
Burgess Meredith · 10 quotes
Adrian
Talia Shire · 9 quotes
Apollo Creed
Carl Weathers · 9 quotes
Paulie
Burt Young · 8 quotes
Jergens
Thayer David · 4 quotes
Most scenes together: Rocky Balboa & Adrian (8), Rocky Balboa & Mickey Goldmill (5), Rocky Balboa & Paulie (2)
Rocky quotes
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Gazzo [to Rocky]
Ya know, you ain't never had any luck. But I think this time
Lady Luck may be in your corner. Whaddya think?
Einstein flunked out of school - twice.
Is that so?
Yeah. Beethoven was deaf, Helen Keller was blind. I think Rocky's got a good
chance.
Why do you fight?
Cause I can't sing or dance.
Andy
Will you take a look at that guy? I mean, where are the real fighters gonna come
from, the pros? What we got today are Canadian jig clowns.
Clown?
Andy
That's right, clown.
Ya callin' Apollo Creed a clown?
Andy
Well, what else, look at him.
Hey, Andy, are you crazy? This man is champion of the world. He took his best
shot and become champ. Huh? What shot did you ever take?
Andy
Hey, Rocky, you're not happy with your life. It's nice. But me, I've got a
business going, I don't have to take no shots.
A snow-white underdog, and I'm gonna put his face on this poster with me. And I
tell ya why. Because I'm sentimental. And a lot of other people in this country are just as
sentimental, and they're nothin' they'd like better than to see Apollo Creed give a local
Philadelphia boy a shot at the greatest title in the world on this country's biggest birthday. Now
that's the way I see it. And that's the way it's gonna be!
Apollo, I like it. It's very American.
No, Jergens, it's very smart.
Ain't gonna be no rematch.
Don't want one.
Bodyguard
Did ya get the license number?
Of what?
Bodyguard
The truck that run over your face.
Duke [watching Rocky punch meat on the TV]
Hey, Apollo. You better come see this.
Duke This guy, the one you want to fight, he looks serious.
Yeah, yeah. [not even looking at the TV] I'm serious, too.
Gazzo When you don't do what I tell you to do, you make me look bad, Rock.
I figure if, look, I figure if I break the guy's thumb, he gets laid off, right?
He can't make no more money...
Gazzo Yeah, well, don't figure. Let me do the figurin'. OK, Rock? From here on, just
let me do the figurin'. You know? These guys think that we're runnin' some kind of charity or
somethin', that they're gonna get off light. From here on in, do what I tell ya to do, because
it's bad for my reputation. Ya understand?
Balboa, George Jergens. Take a chair please. Mr. Balboa.
Call me Rocky sir.
Tell me Rocky, you've got any representation of a manager?
No just me.
Rocky I've got a proposition I'd like to make to you.
Sparring?
I beg your pardon?
Well, I'm interested. I know you're looking for sparring partners and I just want to say I'm very available you know.
I'm sure you are.
Absolutely. Sparring with the champ would be an honor and you know what, Mr. Jergens?
What?
I wouldn't take no cheap shots either. I'd be a really good sparring partner.
You don't understand me, Rocky. My proposition is this. Would you be interested in fighting Apollo Creed for the World Heavyweight Championship?
No.
Listen Rocky, Apollo's seen you fight. He likes you and he wants to fight you.
It's just that you see I fight in clubs you know. I'm really a ham-and-egger and this guy's the best. It wouldn't be such a good fight. Thank you very much though, I appreciate it.
Rocky, do you believe that America is the land of opportunity?
Yes.
Apollo Creed does. He's going to prove it to the whole world by giving an unknown a shot at the title and that unknown is you. He picked you, Rocky. Rocky it's the chance of a lifetime. You can't pass it by. What do you say?
Dipper's a contender. He's a climber. You know what you are?
What?
A tomato.
A tomato?
Yeah, let's face it. I run a business here, not a god-damn soup kitchen.
I'm here to warn ya, that ya gotta be very careful about this shot that you got
at the title. Because, like the Bible sez, you ain't gonna get a second chance...Well, what ya
need is a manager. A manager, listen to me. I know, because I've been in this racket for fifty
years...I've seen it all, all of it. Ya know what I've done?...I have done it all...[He holds a
bare lightbulb in front of his face] I've got twenty-one stitches over this left eye. I've got
thirty-four stitches over this eye. Do ya know that I had my nose busted seventeen times?...[He
glances at Rocky's poster of Rocky Marciano] Ya kinda remind me of the Rock, ya know
that?...Ya move like him, ya got heart like he did...I got all this knowledge, I got it up here
now, I wanna give it to you...I wanna take care of ya, I wanna make sure that all this shit that
happened to me doesn't happen to you...Ya can't buy what I'm gonna give ya.
I needed your help about ten years ago, right? Ten years ago, ya never helped me
none. You didn't care...I asked, but you never heard nothin'...What about my prime, Mick? At least
you had a prime! I had no prime, I've had nothin'....And you wanna be ringside and see it, do ya?
Ya wanna help me out?...Go on, fight the champ. Yeah, I'll fight 'im - I'll get my face kicked
in.
I'm here to warn ya, that ya gotta be very careful about this shot that you got at the title. Because, like the Bible sez, you ain't gonna get a second chance...Well, what ya need is a manager. A manager, listen to me. I know, because I've been in this racket for 50 years...I've seen it all, all of it. Ya know what I've done? I have done it all. [He holds a bare lightbulb in front of his face] I've got 21 stitches over this left eye. I've got 34 stitches over this eye. Do ya know that I had my nose busted 17 times? [He glances at Rocky's poster of Rocky Marciano] Ya kinda remind me of the Rock, ya know that? Ya move like him, ya got heart like he did...I got all this knowledge, I got it up here now, I wanna give it to you...I wanna take care of ya, I wanna make sure that all this shit that happened to me doesn't happen to you...Ya can't buy what I'm gonna give ya. I've got pain and I've got experience.
Well, I've got pain, and I've got experience too.
Listen, kid.
Hey, Mick.
What?
I needed your help about ten years ago, right? Ten years ago?
Right.
Ten years ago, ya never helped me none. You didn't care.
Well, if you wanted help... I say, if you wanted help, why didn't you ask? Why didn't you just ask me, kid?
Look, I asked, but you never heard nothin'
Well, I, uh, I know I, I'm 76 years old...and uh well, where the hell is... [walks out because Rocky wouldn't even entertain him]
[as Mickey is revealed to be just outside the room but eventually leaves]
Took you long enough to get here. Took you ten years to come to my house. Huh, what's the matter? You don't like my house? Does my house stink? That's right it stinks! I didn't ask no favours from you! Don't slum around me! Talking about your prime. What about my prime Mick!? Least you had a prime! I didn't have no prime, I didn't have nothin'. Leg's are goin', everythin's goin'. Nobody's gettin' no nothin'. Guy comes up, offers me a fight. Big deal, you wanna fight the fight? Yeah I'll fight the big fight. I'm gonna go and fight that big fight and you know what's going to happen to me? I'm gonna get that! [punches mattress] I'm gonna get that! [punches mattress] And you wanna be ringside and see it? Do ya? You wanna help me out? Huh!? Do you wanna see me get my face kicked in!? Leg's ain't workin'. Nothin's workin'. They go "Go on fight the champ". Yeah I'll fight him. Get my face kicked in. And you come around here, you wanna move in here with me? Come on in it's a nice house! Real nice! Come on in and move! It stinks! This whole place stinks! You wanna help me out? Well help me out! Come on help me out, I'm standing here!
You wanna know?
I wanna know!
Because you had the talent to become a good fighter, and instead of that you
became a leg-breaker for some cheap, second-rate loan shark.
It's a living.
It's a waste of life!