Rocky

Apollo Creed:
Stay in school and use your brain. Be a doctor, be a lawyer, carry a leather briefcase. Forget about sports as a profession. Sports make ya grunt and smell. See, be a thinker, not a stinker.

Apollo Creed:
Ain't gonna be no rematch.

Rocky:
Don't want one.

Rocky:
I been comin' here for six years, and for six years ya been stickin' it to me, an' I wanna know how come!

Mickey:
Ya don't wanna know!

Rocky:
I wanna know how come!

Mickey:
Ya wanna know?

Rocky:
I WANNA KNOW HOW!

Mickey:
OK, I'm gonna tell ya! You had the talent to become a good fighter, but instead of that, you become a legbreaker to some cheap, second rate loanshark!

Rocky:
I can't do it.

Adrian:
What?

Rocky:
I can't beat him.

Adrian:
Apollo?

Rocky:
Yeah. I been out there walkin' around, thinkin'. I mean, who am I kiddin'? I ain't even in the guy's league.

Adrian:
What are we gonna do?

Rocky:
I don't know.

Adrian:
You worked so hard.

Rocky:
Yeah, that don't matter. 'Cause I was nobody before.

Adrian:
Don't say that.

Rocky:
Ah come on, Adrian, it's true. I was nobody. But that don't matter either, you know? 'Cause I was thinkin', it really don't matter if I lose this fight. It really don't matter if this guy opens my head, either. 'Cause 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 standin', I'm gonna know for the first time in my life, see, that I weren't just another bum from the neighborhood.

Jergens:
Balboa, George Jergens. Take a chair please. Mr. Balboa.

Rocky:
Call me Rocky sir.

Jergens:
Tell me Rocky, you've got any representation of a manager?

Rocky:
No just me.

Jergens:
Rocky I've got a proposition I'd like to make to you.

Rocky:
Sparring?

Jergens:
I beg your pardon?

Rocky:
Well, I'm interested. I know you're looking for sparring partners and I just want to say I'm very available you know.

Jergens:
I'm sure you are.

Rocky:
Absolutely. Sparring with the champ would be an honor and you know what, Mr. Jergens?

Jergens:
What?

Rocky:
I wouldn't take no cheap shots either. I'd be a really good sparring partner.

Jergens:
You don't understand me, Rocky. My proposition is this. Would you be interested in fighting Apollo Creed for the World Heavyweight Championship?

Rocky:
No.

Jergens:
Listen Rocky, Apollo's seen you fight. He likes you and he wants to fight you.

Rocky:
It's just that you see I fight in clubs you know. I'm really a ham-and-egger and this guy's the best. It wouldn't be such a good fight. Thank you very much though, I appreciate it.

Jergens:
Rocky, do you believe that America is the land of opportunity?

Rocky:
Yes.

Jergens:
Apollo Creed does. He's going to prove it to the whole world by giving an unknown a shot at the title and that unknown is you. He picked you, Rocky. Rocky it's the chance of a lifetime. You can't pass it by. What do you say?