Quotes from Jake LaMotta

You have to treat everybody the right way. Otherwise, you'll have a short life. God bless.

Everybody has a temper, but mine was set on a hair trigger.

I been in jail twice. The first time was reform school: they got me for carrying burglar's tools, something like that. The morals charge was a frame-up.

Most people aren't good or bad. They're naive.

You can't go into the ring and be a nice guy.

I was able to convince my body that I could take it and nobody could hurt me. I might've gotten cut, stitches over my eyes. Broken nose. Broken hands. But I never really got hurt.

I wanted to get punished, and I took unnecessary punishment when I was fighting.

Lot of guys can take punches. The idea is not to take unnecessary punishment.

Fear is unnecessary.

My greatest defense was my offense. Very few guys did that.

When you break bones, they heal up and come back even stronger.

I hypnotized myself so in my subconscious, I believed I couldn't get hurt. And I don't mean 'believe' - I mean believe believe believe.

Even when I was hurt, I was always the aggressor, no matter what.

I was a sick animal. I was jealous. I was vicious.

The three toughest fighters I ever fought were Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson and Sugar Ray Robinson. I fought Sugar so many times, I'm surprised I'm not diabetic.