American - Athlete | July 10, 1922 - September 19, 2017
Everybody has a temper, but mine was set on a hair trigger.
Jake LaMotta
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You know what's the greatest sin in the world? Hurting your fellow man.
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I play solitaire and wait for something to happen.
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Besides being a slum kid with no great education in anything except how to fight and stay alive and steal, I also had this temper.
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I had such a crazy life. How I got away with it, I don't know.
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You have to treat everybody the right way. Otherwise, you'll have a short life. God bless.
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Something's bound to happen to you in a tough fight: cut eye, broken nose or broken hand or something like that. So you could make excuses out of anything, you know, but you got to keep on going if you're a champ or you're a contender.
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Fear is unnecessary.
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My nose was broken six times, my hands six times, a few fractured ribs. Fifty stitches over my eyes. But the only place I got hurt was out of the ring.
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When you break bones, they heal up and come back even stronger.
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You can't fight if you have any compassion or anything like that.
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God's been pretty good to me. He made me duck all those punches that were supposed to land.
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