Rocky Graziano famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I quit school in the sixth grade because of pneumonia. Not because I had it, but because I couldn't spell it.
-- Rocky Graziano

#Sports #School #Pneumonia
I give in to nothing or nobody. Cut me, break my bones, it was all the same.
-- Rocky Graziano

#Cutting #Giving #Bones
I never stole nuttin' unless it began with an 'A' - A truck, a car, a payroll...!
-- Rocky Graziano

#Car #Truck #Payroll
Hey ma, your bad boy did good!
-- Rocky Graziano

#Boys #Boxing #Hey
I was the best street fighter in history when I was growing up on the Lower East Side. Hell, I never lost a street fight. Never. I thought I could lick Jack Dempsey or Joe Louis or anybody. I was fantastic.
-- Rocky Graziano

#Growing Up #Fighting #East
The fight for survival is the fight
-- Rocky Graziano

#Fighting #Boxing #Survival
Everybody who is young is promising. The world should sue the young for breach of promise.
-- Rocky Graziano

#Promise #World #Young
I don't know, I'm not from this neighborhood."-to Jake LaMotta after a night of drinking when LaMotta asked "is that the sun or the moon?
-- Rocky Graziano

#Drinking #Moon #Night

The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.
I wouldn't give one iota to make a trip from the cradle to the grave unless I could live in a competitive world.
The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isnâ€™t wishful thinking. Itâ€™s the rule.
Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
Only after realising that routine immunisations were dangerous did I achieve a substantial drop in infant death rates. The worst vaccine of all is the whooping cough vaccine... it is responsible for a lot of deaths and for a lot of infants suffering irreversible brain damage. In susceptible infants, it knocks their immune systems about, leading to irreparable brain damage, or severe attacks or even deaths from diseases like pneumonia or gastro-enteritis and so on.
We used to say in the black community that if somebody else caught a cold, we caught pneumonia.
Of course WE never had to do nude scenes. I'm glad, too, because I'm susceptible to pneumonia.
I would spend more time with my children. I would make my money before spending it. I would learn the joys of wine instead of hard liquor. I would not smoke cigarettes when I had pneumonia. I would not marry a fifth time.
All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia.
Pneumococcus is a fairly common cause of pneumonia and [raises the] risk of death in older adults.

Rocky Graziano famous quotes

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