Budd Schulberg quotes:

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  • Hey, you want to hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.

  • Very 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.

  • Silence is the sure sign that you're on your way out in Hollywood.

  • 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.

  • 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 could have had class. I could have been a contender.

  • As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.

  • You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going

  • Unless we know people well, we sit around with our words and our minds starched, afraid of being ourselves for fear of wrinkling them.

  • Fights can be dumped in a dozen ways. Sometimes everybody but the fighter knows. Sometimes only the fighter knows.

  • Tell Papa I admire him but from now on I plan to admire him from as far away as I can get.

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

  • 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.

  • Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on.

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

  • It's queer to think how many little guys there are like that, with more ability than push, sucked in by one wave and hurled out by the next, for every Sammy Glick who slips through and over the waves like a porpoise.

  • Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?

  • I suppose it's too bad people can't be a little more consistent. But if they were, maybe they would stop being people.

  • Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on.

  • You can't eat your friends and have them too

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