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.
Clubber Lang: [rejecting Apollo's attempt at a handshake] Get out of my face! I don't need no has-beens in my corner. And you better wipe that look off your face before I knock it off. You wanna jump, jump!
Apollo: [quietly, to Rocky] Do everybody a favor and knock this chump out.
I have this theory that Burgess Meredith had some kind of Twilight Zone supernatural ability to make any actor in a scene with him better. Adam West. John Wayne. Gregory Peck. Jack Lemmon. I don't care who they were he elevated them when they were on camera together.