Top 26 Lamotta Quotes
#1. There have been many great fighters like Jake LaMotta, Roberto Duran, and Ricky Hatton. Hatton was a great inside fighter.
Tyson Fury
#2. 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
#3. Besides Bob Satterfield, the only ones who ever hurt me were my ex-wives.
Jake LaMotta
#4. It is not deeds or acts that last: it is the written record of those deeds and acts.
Elbert Hubbard
#5. He's a man of few words, and he doesn't know what either of them means, people said, but not when he was within hearing.
Terry Pratchett
#7. But that was before she'd gotten that chest, before that slash of black hair had gone from something to pull on the bus to something to stroke in the dark.
Junot Diaz
#8. Other people have worked with big studios and maintained control over their movies. I see no reason why it wouldn't work for me.
Noah Baumbach
#9. A person never forgets the landscape of their childhood'.
Kate Morton
#10. I have almost forgotten the taste of fears: The time has been, my senses would have cool'd to hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir as life were in't: I have supt full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, cannot once start me.
William Shakespeare
#11. Once an individual shines bright walking in average light to some may appear as dim surroundings..
Victoria Addino
#12. I read the Romans had bread and circuses. We had home relief and boxing.
Jake LaMotta
#13. 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
#14. My parents were in the book business, my brothers still run the Dutton bookstores in Los Angeles, and I've been interested in editing books and journals all of my life.
Denis Dutton
#15. The history of colonisation cannot disappear.
Claire Denis
#16. Mobile use is growing faster than all of Google's internal predictions.
Eric Schmidt
#18. 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
#19. In my whole career, I've never really gotten hurt. The only ones that really hurt me were my wives.
Jake LaMotta
#20. I fought Sugar [Ray Robinson] so many times that I'm lucky I didn't get diabetes
Jake LaMotta
#21. But he was not a coward...not so much to the idea of pouring out human blood and life, but at the idea of waste of wearing out and eating up and shooting away material in any cause whatever.
William Faulkner
#22. If my mother knew I did this for a living, she'd kill me. She thinks I'm selling dope.
Henny Youngman
#23. Actually, as president of the Conference of Mayors, we passed the Simpson-Bowles plan as a template, as a template, as a frame work for moving forward and the president has done the same.
Antonio Villaraigosa
#24. I fought Sugar Ray so often, I almost got diabetes.
Jake LaMotta
#25. There's no way I'm goin' down. I don't go down for nobody.
Jake LaMotta
#26. 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
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