Jake LaMotta Quotes
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You couldn't drop me! You never dropped me.
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I always needed money when I was younger. I had different ways of getting it. A lot of the ways I don't like to talk about.
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There's no pensions for old prize fighters.
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Fear is unnecessary.
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Even when I was hurt, I was always the aggressor, no matter what.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to fight Joe Louis. But I think if I had seen Mike Tyson at that time, I would have said, 'Nah, I don't want to fight him.' He's deadly. He could have been one of the great heavyweight champions. But he goofed.
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I ask for personal appearance fees because I've earned them. I deserve them. My presence at events is what they need, so they ought to pay for it.
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When you break bones, they heal up and come back even stronger.
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I wanted to get punished, and I took unnecessary punishment when I was fighting.
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All my life, I wanted to be champion.
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I been in jail twice. The first time was reform school: they got me for carrying burglar's tools, something like that. The morals charge was a frame-up.
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I forget stuff. Guess I took a few too many punches.
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My nose was broken six times, my hands six times, a few fractured ribs. Fifty stitches over my eyes. But the only place I got hurt was out of the ring.
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Besides Bob Satterfield, the only ones who ever hurt me were my ex-wives.
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I was a no-good bastard.
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Forward, always moving forward, from the time I can remember - a kid. I was short, and the big guys would take advantage; I had to turn myself into a body puncher. By that time I was in reform school, they'd have a boxing match every week; they'd bring guys in from outside to fight me.
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I play solitaire and wait for something to happen.
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Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.
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There's a lot of people all over the world that talked about me.
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God's been pretty good to me. He made me duck all those punches that were supposed to land.
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Most people aren't good or bad. They're naive.
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Punches never bothered me that much.
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I'm the Godfather of Boxing. Everything is out in the open with me. What you see is what you get.
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I guess God blessed me with a hard head, because I really didn't feel punches.