Fights can be dumped in a dozen ways. Sometimes everybody but the fighter knows. Sometimes only the fighter knows.
Budd SchulbergBoxing is a mental sport. Think of a prizefight as a chess game of mind and body, and you are a little closer to it than if you compare it to a bloody brawl in an alley.
Budd SchulbergI coulda' had class. I coulda' been a contender! But instead I got a one way ticket to Palookaville.
Budd SchulbergYou know what's wrong with our waterfront? It's the love of a lousy buck. It's making the love of a buck, the cushy job, more important than the love of man. It's forgetting that every fellow down here's your brother in Christ.
Budd SchulbergTell Papa I admire him but from now on I plan to admire him from as far away as I can get.
Budd SchulbergIn English the expression 'ancient Greece' includes the meaning of 'finished,' whereas for us Greece goes on living, for better or for worse; it is in life, has not expired yet.
Budd SchulbergI’d like to be remembered as someone who used their ability as a novelist or as a dramatist to say the things he felt needed to be said about the society while being as entertaining as possible. Because if you don’t entertain, nobody’s listening.
Budd SchulbergI suppose it's too bad people can't be a little more consistent. But if they were, maybe they would stop being people.
Budd SchulbergYou either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going
Budd SchulbergVery few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore.
Budd Schulberg