I coulda' had class. I coulda' been a contender! But instead I got a one way ticket to Palookaville.

Silence is the sure sign that youre on your way out in Hollywood.

Boxing 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.

Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.

I don't like the country. The crickets make me nervous.

In 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.

You 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.