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Facing New Challenges in a Comfortable Life
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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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Rocky Challenges His Opponent's Toughness
Rocky Balboa
You ain't so bad, you ain't so bad, you ain't nothin'. C'mon, champ, hit me in the face! My mother hits harder than that!
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A Fighter's Journey to Greatness
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A Fighter. A Lover. A Legend. The Greatest Challenge.
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Emotions Run High in the Ring
Apollo
He's getting killed out there!
[Rocky keeps getting hit by Clubber]
Paulie
Oh, no, no. He's not getting killed, he's getting MAD!
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The Essence of Strength and Charisma
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The Excitement... The Power... The Man...
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The Greatest Challenge Ahead
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The greatest challenge.
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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
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.
[crowd shouts]
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
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!
[exits through the crowd]
Clubber
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.
[to Adrian]
Rocky
YOU WANT IT, YOU GOT IT!
[angrily]
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Tension Builds Before the Fight
Clubber
Hey, fool! You ready for another beatin'? You should've never came back!
Apollo
Don't look at him. Let's just be cool.
Clubber
Hey, boy. Hey, boy. After I crucify him, you next.
[to Apollo]
Apollo
Just stay outta my face, chump.
Clubber
Don't turn yo back on me, sucka!!
[furiously]
Nahan
We got a brawl before the bell!
Clubber
I'm-a get you! I'm-a get you! Let him go! I want him!
Rocky
I thought you said "be cool"!
Apollo
That was cool!
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The Return of the Italian Stallion
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The legend continues...The Italian Stallion is back!!
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Call for Help in Rocky III
Paulie
Rocky, you better call Bob Hope.
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The Importance of Self-Belief
Rocky Balboa
Nothing is real if you don't believe in who you are!
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