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: [Seeing "Shamrock Meats" on Rocky's robe] 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!
Employment Office Counselor Can I be honest? No one's going to offer you an office job. There's too much competition. Why don't you fight? I read somewhere you're a very good fighter.
Rocky Balboa: Yeah, well, was ya ever punched in the face 500 times a night? It stings after a while, ya know?
Apollo Creed: Now, when you beat me, you beat me by one second. Now. do you know what something like that does to a man of my intelligence?
Rocky Balboa: I thought you said you got over it.
Apollo Creed: I lied.
Rocky: Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place. And I don’t care how tough you are—it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it.
Mickey [to Rocky]: If you wasn't here, I probably wouldn't be alive today. The fact that you're here and doin' as well as you're doin' gives me, what do you call it, a motivization, huh, to stay alive. Cuz I think that people die sometimes when they don't wanna live no more.