When It Gets Hard We Get Back Up and Do It Again

Let me tell you lot something you already know. The earth own't all sunshine and rainbows. Information technology's a very hateful and nasty identify, and I don't care how tough you are, information technology will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if y'all let it.

You, me, or nobody is gonna hit equally hard as life. But it ain't about how hard yous hit. It's virtually how difficult you can become hit and go on moving forrad; how much you can accept and go on moving forrard. That'southward how winning is washed!

Rocky Balboa is a 2006 film from written and directed past and starring Sylvester Stallone as underdog boxer Rocky Balboa. It is the sixth film in the Rocky serial, which began with the Oscar-winning Rocky 30 years earlier in 1976; it was followed by Creed, in 2015. Balboa, a retired widower living in Kensington, Philadelphia, owns and operates an Italian restaurant in the city called "Adrian's", named after his tardily married woman. He decides to try his manus at 1 concluding match, ending up in an exhibition against the reigning champ.

Rocky Balboa

• [confronted by his son over taking on Mason Dixon] Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It'south a very hateful and nasty place, and I don't care how tough you are, it volition beat you to your knees and go on you there permanently if y'all let it. Y'all, me, or nobody is gonna hitting as difficult as life. Simply it own't about how hard you lot hit. Information technology'southward about how hard y'all can get hit and keep moving forward; how much you tin take and go along moving forward. That'south how winning is done! Now if you know what you're worth, then get out and get what you're worth, but you lot gotta be willing to have the hits, and not pointing fingers proverb you own't where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain't you. Yous're better than that! I'm always gonna love you, no matter what. No matter what happens. You're my son and you're my claret. You're the all-time thing in my life. But until you lot offset assertive in yourself, yous ain't gonna have a life. Don't forget to visit your female parent.

Dialogue

Martin: You got everything money tin buy, except what information technology can't. It'south pride. Pride is what got your donkey out of here, and losing is what brought ya back. Only people like yous, they need to be tested. They need a challenge.

Stonemason 'The Line' Dixon: But you know that ain't never gonna happen. There ain't anybody out at that place, Martin.

Martin: There'due south ever somebody out there. Always. And when that fourth dimension comes and you observe something standing in front of y'all, something that ain't running and ain't bankroll up and is striking on you and you're too damn tired to breathe. Yous find that situation on you. That'southward practiced, 'cause that's baptism under fire! Oh, you lot become through that and you discover the only kind of respect that matters in this damn globe: self-respect.

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Rocky: Yo, don't I got some rights?

Boxing Commissioner: What rights practice you lot recall you're referring to?

Rocky: Rights, like in that official piece of paper they wrote down the street there?

Boxing Commissioner: That's the Beak of Rights.

Rocky: Yep yeah, the Bill of Rights. Don't it say something about going later what makes you happy?

Boxing Commissioner: No, that's the pursuit of happiness. Simply what's your indicate?

Rocky: My point is, I'chiliad pursuing something and nobody looks as well happy about it.

Battle Commissioner: But, we're just looking out for your interests.

Rocky: I capeesh that, just maybe you're looking out for your interests merely a trivial bit more. I hateful y'all shouldn't be asking people to come up down here and pay the freight on something they paid, it still own't good plenty, I mean you call up that's right? I mean maybe you're doing your job only why you gotta stop me from doing mine? Cause if y'all're willing to go through all the battling you got to become through to get where you desire to get, who's got the correct to end you? I mean mayhap some of you guys got something yous never finished, something you really desire to exercise, something you never said to someone, something... and you're told no, fifty-fifty after yous paid your dues? Who's got the right to tell yous that, who? Nobody! It's your right to mind to your gut, it ain't nobody's right to say no afterward you lot earned the right to be where you lot want to be and do what you lot want to practise!... You know, the older I get the more things I gotta leave behind, that'south life. The but thing I'm asking yous guys to exit on the table... is what's right.

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Paulie: Are you nevertheless mad that Adrian left you?

Rocky: She didn't exit, Paulie. She [voice breaks] died.

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[Knuckles rationalizes Rocky's training program for the Dixon fight]

Duke: You know all there is to know nigh fighting, so there's no sense the states going downwards that same quondam road once again. To beat this guy, you lot demand speed - you don't accept it. And your knees tin't take the pounding, so hard running is out. And y'all got arthritis in your neck, and y'all've got calcium deposits on nearly of your joints, and then sparring is out.

Paulie: I had that trouble. [Rocky nods at him and looks back at Duke]

Duke: So, what we'll be calling on is good ol' fashion blunt-strength trauma. Horsepower. Heavy-duty, cast-fe, piledriving punches that will take to hurt and so much they'll rattle his ancestors. Every time yous hitting him with a shot, it's gotta feel like he tried kissing the express train. [cracks neck] Aye! Let's start building some hurtin' bombs!

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Mason 'The Line' Dixon: It's already over.

Rocky: Nothing's over 'til it's over.

Dixon: What's that from, the 80'due south?

Rocky: That'southward probably the 70's.

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Rocky: Hey yo, gnaw, aren't you a petty scared?

Mason 'The Line' Dixon: I don't get scared. [walks away]

Rocky: [turns and walks away with his son] You know, I call up you lot try harder when you're scared. This is...that'southward when information technology's worked best for me.

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Rocky: [to a ESPN commentator earlier the fight with Dixon] How you doin'?

ESPN Commentator: [to his colleagues] Rocky Balboa merely asked me how I'm doing. Now, I grew up watching this guy. I never thought that I would exist calling one of his fights! Unbelievable. I'm a fan, I can't help it.

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Mason 'The Line' Dixon: [before the final circular] You are one crazy old man.

Rocky: You lot'll get there.

Tagline

• Courage. Integrity. Religion. Victory.
• It own't over 'til it's over.

Cast

• Sylvester Stallone - Rocky Balboa
• Antonio Traver - Stonemason "The Line Dixon"
• Milo Ventimiglia - Robert Balboa
• Tony Burton - Tony "Knuckles" Evers
• Burt Young - Paulie Pennino

External links

• Rocky Balboa quotes at the Cyberspace Picture Database
• Rocky Balboa at Rotten Tomatoes

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