As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it. |
Boxing is a mental sport. Think of a prizefight as a chess game of mind and body, and you are a little closer to it than if you compare it to a bloody brawl in an alley. |
Darryl Zanuck turned us down at Twentieth Century-Fox. He told us no one is going to care about a lot of sweaty longshoremen. |
Fights can be dumped in a dozen ways. Sometimes everybody but the fighter knows. Sometimes only the fighter knows. |
I could have had class. I could have been a contender. |
Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on |
Silence is the sure sign that you're on your way out in Hollywood. |
Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore. |
You can't eat your friends and have them too. |
You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going. |