Rocky Balboa

[to Paulie] You know I think if you live some place long enough, you are that place.

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Martin: You got everything money can buy, except what it can't. It's pride. Pride is what got your ass out of here, and losing is what brought ya back. But people like you, they need to be tested. They need a challenge. Mason 'The Line' Dixon: But you know that ain't never gonna happen. There ain't anybody out there, Martin. Martin: There's always somebody out there. Always. And when that time comes and you find something standing in front of you, something that ain't running and ain't backing up and is hitting on you and you're too damn tired to breathe. You find that situation on you. That's good, 'cause that's baptism under fire! Oh, you get through that and you find the only kind of respect that matters in this damn world: self-respect.

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Rocky: Yo, don't I got some rights? Boxing Commissioner: What rights do you think you're referring to? Rocky: Rights, like in that official piece of paper they wrote down the street there? Boxing Commissioner: That's the Bill of Rights. Rocky: Yeah yeah, the Bill of Rights. Don't it say something about going after what makes you happy? Boxing Commissioner: No, that's the pursuit of happiness. But what's your point? Rocky: My point is, I'm pursuing something and nobody looks too happy about it. Boxing Commissioner: But, we're just looking out for your interests. Rocky: I appreciate that, but maybe you're looking out for your interests just a little bit more. I mean you shouldn't be asking people to come down here and pay the freight on something they paid, it still ain't good enough, I mean you think that's right? I mean maybe you're doing your job but why you gotta stop me from doing mine? Cause if you're willing to go through all the battling you got to go through to get where you wan

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Paulie: Are you still mad that Adrian left you? Rocky: She didn't leave, Paulie. She [voice breaks] died.

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Duke: You know all there is to know about fighting, so there's no sense us going down that same old road again. To beat this guy, you need speed - you don't have it. And your knees can't take the pounding, so hard running is out. And you got arthritis in your neck, and you've got calcium deposits on most of your joints, so sparring is out. Paulie: I had that problem. [Rocky nods at him and looks back at Duke] Duke: So, what we'll be calling on is good ol’ fashion blunt-force trauma. Horsepower. Heavy-duty, cast-iron, piledriving punches that will have to hurt so much they'll rattle his ancestors. Every time you hit him with a shot, it's gotta feel like he tried kissing the express train. [cracks neck] Yeah! Let's start building some hurtin' bombs!

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Mason 'The Line' Dixon: It's already over. Rocky: Nothing's over 'til it's over. Dixon: What's that from, the 80's? Rocky: That's probably the 70's.

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