Quotes from Jake LaMotta

I lost a lot of money, lost my wife and kids.

I've learned a lot about life besides how to take a punch. And I've taken quite a few in and out of the ring.

I guess God blessed me with a hard head, because I really didn't feel punches.

Punches never bothered me that much.

I forget stuff. Guess I took a few too many punches.

I fought in Detroit 23 times.

I fought from the time I was eight years old, sometimes three, four fights a night. We did it to eat, and we did it because we were just tough kids.

You don't compare a guy with 30 or 40 fights with a guy who had 200 fights and fought over 25 years.

The world knows me as the Raging Bull.

I'm the Godfather of Boxing. Everything is out in the open with me. What you see is what you get.

Most of the time, husbands and wives argue about stupid, foolish things. If it doesn't mean that much to you, give in to your wife.

Counting amateur fights, I have over a thousand bouts.

Ask most guys what their ambition is, and they'll say they want to get rich. But when they get rich, they discover it's not what they wanted at all. I don't want to be rich.

I fought Sugar Ray Robinson so many times, it's a wonder I don't have diabetes.

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.

I purposely lost a fight to Billy Fox because they promised me that I would get a shot to fight for the title if I did.

Subconsciously - I didn't know it then, I realize it today when I know a little bit more about the mind and the brain - I fought like I didn't deserve to live.

Cooking's my hobby.

I had such a crazy life. How I got away with it, I don't know.

All my life I made a living out of hurting people. Now, I make a living out of making people laugh.

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.

The three toughest fighters I fought were Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Sugar Ray Robinson.

You know what's the greatest sin in the world? Hurting your fellow man.

I was tough at a very young age, where I was just fighting all the time.