Rocky III (1982) - Quotes

The Greatest Challenge Ahead

Taglines: The greatest challenge.

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The Essence of Strength and Charisma

Taglines: The Excitement... The Power... The Man...

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A Fighter's Journey to Greatness

Taglines: A Fighter. A Lover. A Legend. The Greatest Challenge.

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Facing New Challenges in a Comfortable Life

Taglines: His life is happy, his fights have seemed easy. Now a young upstart is going to make him prove just how far he can still go...

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The Return of the Italian Stallion

Taglines: The legend continues...The Italian Stallion is back!!

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Emotions Run High in the Ring

Apollo: [Rocky keeps getting hit by Clubber] He's getting killed out there!

Paulie: Oh, no, no. He's not getting killed, he's getting MAD!

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Confrontation Over Title and Guts

Clubber: Gettin out while you can?! Don't give this sucker no statue. Give him guts! I told you I wasn't goin away. You got your shot. Now, give me mine.

Mickey: Why don't you get the fuck outta there?

Clubber: Shut up, old man! I ain't goin nowhere. And why don't you tell all these nice folks why you been duckin me? Politics, man! This country wants to keep me down. Keep everybody weak. They don't want a man like me to have the title, because I'm not a puppet like that fool up there.

Rocky: You know, you've got a big mouth. Y'know?

Clubber: Why don't you come down here and close it, Balboa? C'mon! C'mon!

Rocky: Anytime.

Mickey: This guy's crazy. Don't listen to him.

Clubber: [crowd shouts] The little man don't wanna come to me, then I'll come to you people and lay out the truth. I am ranked #1. 1! That means I'm the best. But this bum been takin the easy matches. Fightin other bums. I'm telling you and everybody here. I'll fight him anywhere, anytime, for nothin'! But you people ain't never gonna see that happen, because he's gonna retire. You see, he don't fight no real man. He fight them setups.

Rocky: What?

Mickey: You're a disgrace to this sport!

Clubber: Shut up, old man! You and that chump don't know what I had to come from! Balboa, your family doin real nice, ain't it? You call yourself a fighter? Prove it now. Gimme that same chance! The way you been duckin is a disgrace. If he ain't no coward, why don't he fight me, then?

Rocky: I can't listen to anymore of this bullshit. Hey, anytime you--

Mickey: I don't care what you're ranked! You don't get no shot and I mean that!

Clubber: I'm glad you people are seein this here.

Rocky: What are you doin'? I wanna fight this guy.

Mickey: Well, you got him. But you'll fight him without me.

Rocky: What are you saying?

Mickey: [exits through the crowd] It's finished. Yes. I'm finished. I don't want no more of this. I don't want no more of it! You understand? None of it! It's over with!

Clubber: [to Adrian] Judge me by my fight record. Hey, woman! Hey, woman! Listen here. Since your ol man here ain't got no heart, maybe you like to see a real man. I bet you stay up late at night dreamin you had a real man, don't ya? I tell you what? Bring your pretty, little self over to my apartment tonight, and I'll show you a real man.

Rocky: [angrily] YOU WANT IT, YOU GOT IT!

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