Jake Lamotta Quotes

#1. On the way here this guy steps up to us and says, 'Would you like to join Jehovah's Witnesses?' and Rocky (Graziano) says 'I didn't see nuttin!'

Jake LaMotta

#2. There's no way I'm goin' down. I don't go down for nobody.

Jake LaMotta

#3. I fought Sugar Ray so often, I almost got diabetes.

Jake LaMotta

#4. I don't know, I'm not from this neighborhood."-to Jake LaMotta after a night of drinking when LaMotta asked "is that the sun or the moon?

Rocky Graziano

#5. By the time the Freedom Flights, to use the US description, came to an end, more than 260,000 Cubans had been airlifted to the United States, every one of them registered by the Swiss before they left Cuba.

Clare O'Dea

#6. I always wanted to see people's lives transformed from depression and anxiety to joy and peace.

David D. Burns

#7. I fought Sugar [Ray Robinson] so many times that I'm lucky I didn't get diabetes

Jake LaMotta

#8. In my whole career, I've never really gotten hurt. The only ones that really hurt me were my wives.

Jake LaMotta

#9. The three toughest fighters I ever fought were Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson and Sugar Ray Robinson. I fought Sugar so many times, I'm surprised I'm not diabetic.

Jake LaMotta

#10. Flies trouble us not by their strength but by their multitudes.

Nancy B. Brewer

#11. You punch like you take it up the ass.

Jake LaMotta

#12. I feel like I don't understand time in novels, really. I bumble forward, is all.

Elizabeth McCracken

#13. That's right, fall in one pit and start over from the beginning! Well, thankfully my buddies practically tied me to my chair until I put in extra lives and I'm glad they did.

David Crane

#14. There have been many great fighters like Jake LaMotta, Roberto Duran, and Ricky Hatton. Hatton was a great inside fighter.

Tyson Fury

#15. Think of everybody you talk to as having a flashing sign on their chest saying: Make me feel special!

Arthur L. Williams Jr.

#16. You... You make me want to be good, for you...

Anna Todd

#17. You can't go into the ring and be a nice guy. I would go a month, two months, without having sex. It worked for me because it made me a vicious animal. You can't fight if you have any compassion or anything like that.

Jake LaMotta

#18. I read the Romans had bread and circuses. We had home relief and boxing.

Jake LaMotta

#19. Plato said, be kind to everyone you meet for we are all fighting difficult battles.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#20. You're a monster that mothers threaten children with and you're still touchy as an ugly girl in a pretty dress.

Caitlin Kittredge

#21. Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.

Larry Wall

#22. Ridiculous. You guys are going to have the most boring documentary on earth," I said and stormed inside.
"Could you walk in the building again, but slower and don't slam the door," Hugo called after me.

Heather O'Neill

#23. Some feel as though the world is their oyster; others feel as though they were the oyster itself, plucked from the ocean, cracked open, and robbed of all that is precious to them.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#24. Besides Bob Satterfield, the only ones who ever hurt me were my ex-wives.

Jake LaMotta