Rocky Quotes

You’re gonna eat lightning and you’re gonna crap thunder![to Rocky]

You wanna dance, you gotta pay the band. You understand? You wanna borrow, you gotta pay the man.[to Bob]

You hang out with nice people, you get nice friends, you understand? You hang out with smart people, you get smart friends. You hang out with yo-yo people, you get yo-yo friends. You see, it’s simple mathematics.[to Marie]

You can’t buy what I’m gonna give you. I mean, I’ve got pain and I’ve got experience.[to Rocky]

Yeah, to you, but to me it’s Thursday.[Adrian: It was Thanksgiving.]

She’s got gaps, I got gaps. Together we fill gaps.[about Adrian]

It really don’t matter if I lose this fight. It really don’t matter if this guy opens my head, either. Because all I wanna do is go the distance. Nobody’s ever gone the distance with Creed. And if I can go that distance, you see, and that bell rings and I’m still standing, I’m gonna know for the first time in my life, see, that I weren’t just another bum from the neighbourhood.[to Adrian]

Inventing jokes ain’t so easy sometimes.

I just want to say hi to my girlfriend, OK? Yo, Adrian! It’s me, Rocky.

Hey, you gotta be a moron. You gotta be a moron to wanna be a fighter, you know what I mean?[Adrian: I don’t understand why anybody would wanna be a fighter.]

Don’t you ever interrupt me while I’m conducting business.

Don’t want one.[Apollo Creed: Ain’t gonna be no rematch. Ain’t gonna be no rematch.]