Jake LaMotta

I fought Sugar Ray six times. Pound for pound the greatest fighter who ever lived.

You can't think about the past anymore.

Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest, pound-for-pound, ever. He fought most of his career with just one loss, and that was to me. He had 131 fights with one loss.

Ask most guys what their ambition is, and they'll say they want to get rich. But when they get rich, they discover it's not what they wanted at all. I don't want to be rich.

My nose was broken six times, my hands six times, a few fractured ribs. Fifty stitches over my eyes. But the only place I got hurt was out of the ring.

I fought Sugar Ray Robinson so many times, it's a wonder I don't have diabetes.

Whenever I did have a lot of money, I got in trouble.

Big money causes me too much trouble with my ex-wives and the government. All I want is to keep busy and to be comfortable.

I don't know how to back up.

When you break bones, they heal up and come back even stronger.

I used to psyche myself out. Only, back then, we didn't know the word 'psyche.'

I fought from the time I was eight years old, sometimes three, four fights a night. We did it to eat, and we did it because we were just tough kids.