Rocky (1976)

Burgess Meredith: Mickey

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Quotes 

• Mickey : You're gonna eat lightnin' and you're gonna crap thunder!

• Mickey : Your nose is broken.

  Rocky : How does it look?

  Mickey : Ah, it's an improvement.

• Rocky : I been comin' here for six years, and for six years ya been stickin' it to me, an' I wanna know how come!

  Mickey : Ya don't wanna know!

  Rocky : I wanna know how come!

  Mickey : Ya wanna know?

  Rocky : *I wanna know how*!

  Mickey : OK, I'm gonna tell ya! You had the talent to become a good fighter, but instead of that, you become a legbreaker to some cheap, second rate loanshark!

  Rocky : It's a living.

  Mickey : *It's a waste of life*!

• Mickey : Women weaken legs!

• Mickey : [to Rocky, after round 1 with Apollo]  Keep hittin' 'em in the ribs ya see? Don't let that bastard breathe!

• Mickey : Down! Down! Stay Down!

• Mickey : You know what you are?

  Rocky : No, what?

  Mickey : A tomato.

  Rocky : A tomato?

  Mickey : Yeah, and I'm running a business here, not a goddamn soup kitchen.

• Mickey : Get out of here! Don't ya ever interrupt me while I'm conductin' business. Move your little chicken asses out.

• Mickey : [Upon seeing the name of Paulie's workplace displayed on Rocky's robe, just before the fight]  Hey. What the hell is that? I trained you to be a fighter, not a billboard!

  Rocky : I'm doing it for a friend.

  Mickey : Well, what do you get out of it?

  Rocky : Paulie gets three grand. I get the robe.

  Mickey : Shrewd!

• Mickey : You're a bum, Rock. You're a bum.

  Rocky : I ain't no bum, Mick. I ain't no bum.

• Mickey : What do you want?

  Rocky : How you feeling today?

  Mickey : What?

  Rocky : How you feeling?

  Mickey : Are you a doctor or something?