Quotes from
Rocky III (1982)
Interviewer: Do you hate Rocky?Clubber Lang: No, I don't hate Balboa. I pity the fool.
Interviewer: What's your prediction for the fight?
Clubber Lang: My prediction? Pain.
Rocky Balboa: How did you get so tough?
Adrian: live with a fighter.
Apollo Creed: Now, when we fought, you had that eye of the tiger, man; the edge! And now you gotta get it back, and the way to get it back is to go back to the beginning. You know what I mean?
Apollo Creed: See that look in their eyes, Rock? You gotta get that look back, Rock. Eye of the tiger, man.
Rocky Balboa: I said why you doin' this?
Mickey: Because you can't win, Rock! This guy will kill you to death inside of three rounds!
Rocky Balboa: You're crazy.
Mickey: What else is new?
Rocky Balboa: He's just another fighter.
Mickey: No, he ain't just another fighter! This guy is a wrecking machine! And he's hungry! Hell, you haven't been hungry since you won that belt.
Rocky Balboa: What are you talkin' about? I had ten title defenses.
Mickey: That was easy.
Rocky Balboa: What you mean, "easy"?
Mickey: They was hand-picked!
Rocky Balboa: Setups?
Mickey: No, they weren't setups. They was good fighters but they wasn't killers like this guy. He'll knock you to tomorrow, Rock!
Clubber Lang: I reject the challenge, 'cause Balboa is no challenge, but I'll be happy to beat up on him some more.
Mickey: You can't win, Rock. This guy'll kill you to death inside o' three rounds.
Clubber Lang: I'm the baddest man in the world.
Rocky Balboa: You don't look so bad to me.
Clubber Lang: What did you say, Paper Champion? I'll beat you like a dog, a dog, you hear?
Thunderlips: To all my love slaves out there: Thunderlips is here. In the flesh, baby. The ultimate male versus... the ultimate meatball. Ha, ha, ha.
Clubber Lang: I'm gonna torture him. I'm gonna crucify him. Real bad.
Rocky Balboa: You ain't so bad, you ain't so bad, you ain't nothin'. C'mon, champ, hit me in the face! My mom hits harder than you!
Mickey: The worst thing that happened to you, that can happen to any fighter: you got civilized.
Apollo Creed: You thought I was tough? This chump will kill you!
Rocky Balboa: [getting his picture taken with Thunderlips] Boy, sometimes charity really hurts!
Apollo Creed: You know Stallion?
Rocky Balboa: What?
Apollo Creed: It's too bad we've got to get old.
Clubber Lang: I'm going to bust you up.
Rocky Balboa: Go for it.
Clubber Lang: Dead meat!
Apollo Creed: Now, when you beat me, you beat me by one... ONE... second. Now do you know what something like that does to a man of my intelligence?
Rocky Balboa: I thought you said you got over it.
Apollo Creed: I lied.
Rocky Balboa: Nothing is real if you don't believe in who you are!
Apollo Creed: Can he swim?
Paulie: With a name like "Rock"!
Paulie: Don't listen to it, Rock.
Apollo Creed: No, do listen to it. Because when it's over, everybody's gonna owe you an engraved apology. And you're gonna owe me a favor.
Rocky Balboa: What favor?
[Rocky is about to fight Thunderlips]
Mickey: Call the fight off!
Rocky Balboa: It's for the charity.
Mickey: Nobody would do something like this for charity.
Rocky Balboa: Bob Hope would.
[Rocky and Thunderlips have completed their exhibition match, which has been more violent than Rocky expected]
Thunderlips: Good match.
Rocky Balboa: Hey why'd you get so crazy on me out there?
Thunderlips: That's the name of the game.
Apollo Creed: [during the rematch with Lang] He's gettin' killed out there!
Paulie: No, no, no! He ain't gettin' killed; he's gettin' mad!
Mickey: [Mickey is not pleased with Rocky's exhibition match with Thunderlips] What's the matter with you? Why do you wanna fight this guy? Does anything normal go through your head?
Rocky Balboa: Nothing that I remember.
Mickey: I seen wrestlers as big as dinosaurs. You ever fought a dinosaur, kid?
Rocky Balboa: Not lately.
Mickey: They can inflict a variety of damage!
Thunderlips: No one can believe the superhuman strength of Thunderlips!
Apollo Creed: If you stand toe-to-toe with this bum, he'll kill you. It doesn't take a man to stand there and get your head beat off...! He's just a man, Rock, so be MORE man than him! Go get him; Eye Of the Tiger!
Clubber Lang's manager: [to Clubber] Don't go wasting your punches! He's gotta come to you; you're the Champ! Don't try to take him out with one punch! Use your head; wear him down!
Clubber Lang: [before the rematch] Hey, boy! Hey, Creed! When I get through with this chump, I'm comin' after you next!
Apollo Creed: Get out of my face, chump!
[Turns his back on Lang]
Clubber Lang: Don't turn your back on me!
[Shoves Creed and a melee breaks out]
Rocky Balboa: [after the scuffle is broken up] I thought you said we had to be cool!
Apollo Creed: That was cool!
[Thunderlips makes his entrance into the arena]
Mickey: Let's get out of here.
Rocky Balboa: Aw c'mon Mick, it's for charity.
Mickey: You're wearing your anatomy out for charity. Nobody else does this much for charity.
Rocky Balboa: Bob Hope would.
Mickey: [pause; nods] That's true.
Paulie: [referring to African-Americans ] I don't like these people.
Rocky Balboa: You don't like em'? Well maybe they don't like you either Paulie.
Paulie: [in awe] What'd I ever do to them?
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