Quote of the Month Archive

June 04:

Adrian: Einstein flunked out of school, twice.
Paulie: Is that so?
Adrian: Yeah. Beethoven was deaf. Helen Keller was blind. I think Rocky's got a good chance.

July 04:

Rocky: Listen I've been thinking, if you don't want me messing with Creed no more we'll make out some other kinda living you know.
Adrian: There's one thing I want you to do for me.
Rocky: What?

Adrian: Win. Win!

Mickey: What are we waitin for!

August 04

Apollo Creed: Now, when you beat me, you beat me by one... ONE... second. Now do you know what something like that does to a man of my intelligence?

Rocky Balboa: I thought you said you got over it.

Apollo Creed: I lied.

September 04

Adrian : It's suicide. You've seen him, you know how strong he is. You can't win

Rocky : Oh, Adrian. Adrian always tells the truth. 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 going to 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 got to be willing to die himself. I don't know if he's ready to do that. I don't know.

October 04

Apollo :We always have to be in the middle of the action cause we're the warriors. And without some challenge, without some damn 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.

November/December 04

Duke: He doesn't know it's supposed to be a show! He thinks it's a damn fight!

January 05

Rocky: I been comin' here for six years, and for six years ya been stickin' it to me, and I wanna know how come!
Mickey: Ya don't wanna know!
Rocky: I wanna know how come!
Mickey: Ya wanna know?
Rocky: I wanna know how!
Mickey: OK, I'm gonna tell ya! 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!

February 05

Mickey: This guy just don't want to win you know. He wants to bury you, he wants to humiliate you, he wants to prove to the whole world that you was nothing but some kind of a... a freak the first time out.

March 05

Apollo: Stay in school and use your brain. Be a doctor, be a lawyer, carry a leather briefcase. Forget about sports as a profession. Sports make you grunt and smell. See, be a thinker, not a stinker.

April 05

(Before match with Thunderlips)

Mickey:  What's the matter with you? Why do you wanna fight this guy? Does anything normal go through your head?
Rocky Balboa: Nothing that I remember.
Mickey: I seen wrestlers as big as dinosaurs. You ever fought a dinosaur, kid?
Rocky Balboa: Not lately
Mickey: They can inflict a variety of damage!

June 05

Duke: You're gonna have to go through hell, worse than any nightmare you've ever dreamed. But when it's over, I know you'll be the one standing. You know what you have to do. Do it.

July 05

Rocky: Going in one more round when you don't think you can - that's what makes all the difference in your life.

August 05

Rocky: I was thinkin', 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, you see, and that bell rings and I'm still standin', I'm gonna know for the first time in my life, see, that I weren't just another bum from the neighbourhood.

September 05

Duke: [to Rocky] You see? You see? He's not a machine, he's a man, he's a man.
Drago: [to his own trainer] He's not human. He's like a piece of iron.

October 05

Mickey: You know, kid, I know how you feel about this fight that's comin' up, because I was young once too. And I tell you somethin': Well, if you wasn't here, I probably wouldn't be alive today. The fact that you're here and doin' as well as you're doin' gives me, what do you call it, a "motivization" huh, to stay alive? 'Cause I think that people die sometimes when they don't wanna live no more.

November 05

Adrian:   All those fighters you beat, you beat them with heart, not muscle. That's what Mickey knew, that's why Mickey and you were special. But Mickey's dead! If there's something that you want to pass on, pass it on to your son! For God's sakes, your son is lost! He needs you! I know Tommy makes you feel great-he makes you feel like you're winning again. But you're losing us! Rocky, you're losing your family!

December 05

[to Apollo about a rematch with Rocky]

Duke: He's all wrong for us, baby. I saw you beat that man like I never saw no man get beat before, and the man kept coming after you. Now we don't need no man like that in our lives.

January 06

Apollo: Apollo Creed vs. The Italian Stallion. Sounds like a damn monster movie!

February 06

[Apollo's funeral]
Rocky: There's a lot I could say about this man, but I don't know if it matters now. I guess what matters is what he stood for, what he lived for, and what he died for. You always did everything the way you wanted it. And I didn't understand that, but now I understand. I'll never forget you, Apollo. You're the best."

March 06

Manager: Can I be honest? No one's going to offer you an office job. There's too much competition. Why don't you fight? I read somewhere you're a very good fighter.
Rocky: Yeah, well. Was ya ever punched in the face 500 times a night? It stings after a while ya know.

April 06

Duke: Hey, champ, you oughta come and look at this boy you're gonna fight on TV. It looks like he means business.
Apollo: Yeah, yeah. I mean business too.

May 06

Paulie:  know sometimes I act stupid and I say stupid things, but you kept me around and other people would have said "drop that bum". You give me respect. You know it's kinda hard for me to say these kinda things, cuz it ain't my way, but if I could just unzip myself and step out and be someone else, I'd wanna be you. You're all heart, Rock.

June 06

Rocky: It's Apollo.
Mickey: Who were you expecting?
Rocky:  I was hoping he wouldn't show