My top ten favorite quotes from the Rocky films:
10. “You had the talent to become a good fighter, but instead of that, you become a leg breaker to some cheap, second rate loan shark!” – Mick
9. “I was wonderin’ if, uh, you wouldn’t mind marryin’ me very much.”
– Rocky
8. “No, maybe I can’t win, maybe the only thing I can do is just take everything he’s got. But to beat me, he’s gonna have to kill me, and to kill me, he’s gonna have to have the heart to stand in front of me, and to do that, he’s gotta be willing to die himself and I don’t know if he’s ready to do that. I don’t know, I don’t know.” – Rocky
7. Rocky: “Cut me Mick”
Mick: “You don’t wanna do it kid!”
Rocky: “Cut me.”
6. “Yo, Adrian, we did it.” – Rocky
5. “Now when we fought, you had that eye of the tiger, man, the edge! And now you gotta get it back, and the way to get it back is to go back to the beginning. You know what I mean?” – Apollo Creed
4. “Who am I kiddin’? I ain’t even in the guy’s league…It don’t matter, ’cause I was nobody before…I was nobody. That don’t matter either, ya know…It really don’t matter if I lose this fight. It really don’t matter if this guy opens my head, either. ‘Cause all I wanna do is go the distance. Nobody’s ever gone the distance with Creed. And if I can go that distance, ya see, and that bell rings, ya know, and I’m still standin’, I’m gonna know for the first time in my life, ya see, that I weren’t just another bum from the neighborhood.” – Rocky
3. “We always have to be in the middle of the action ’cause we’re the warriors. And without some challenge, without some war to fight then the warriors might as well be dead, Stallion. Now I’m asking you – as a friend – stand by my side this one last time.” – Apollo Creed
2. “The worst thing that happened to you, that can happen to any fighter: you got civilized.” – Mick
1. “Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t how hard you hit; it’s about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. How much you can take, and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done. Now, if you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hit, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you are because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain’t you. You’re better than that!” – Rocky