![]() So when I hear something stupid, I act like I didn't hear it. Why think of bad things when you can think of good things? There's nothing you can do about bad things that already happened. The more the blood circulates, the better you're gonna feel and the healthier you're gonna be. What happens happens when you least expect it. The way I saw it, the best defense is a great offense. If you break your hand, try not to think about it - just go forward. ![]() You're forced to learn whether you want to or not. You're the uncrowned champ when nobody wants to fight you. When you finally analyze the whole situation, you realize the arguments were stupid in the first place. If you don't give in, you're giving in to not having sex. If it doesn't mean that much to you, give in to your wife. Most of the time husbands and wives argue about stupid, foolish things. If you've got a beautiful, lovely, gorgeous wife and she loves you and you love her, then it's only natural. There's an old saying that when you get old, you can't function. I'm ninety and I'm still doing pretty good. If I was, I wouldn't be talking to you coherently. I wasn't getting hurt like people thought I was. If you move the same way when a fist comes at you, it takes away more than 50 percent of the power. That slight movement saves you from taking a hard blow. I explain taking a punch this way: In baseball, when someone throws a hardball at you and you don't have a glove, if you want to catch it, your palm moves back with the ball at the last second. The idea is not to take unnecessary punishment. You don't fight six times unless they're close. He had more than a hundred fights without a loss. Sugar Ray was the greatest fighter who ever lived. I fought Sugar Ray Robinson so many times, it's a wonder I don't have diabetes. I might've gotten cut, stitches over my eyes. I was able to convince my body that I could take it and nobody could hurt me. The producer said, "Jake, you're not the type." Good thing there's a Robert De Niro. I told the producer that I wanted to play myself in the movie. I started out at seven, fighting in the street, fighting to give a few bucks to my father to help pay the rent. Last July, he starred in a biographical off-Broadway show, Lady and the Champ.įighting is all I ever knew. The first boxer to beat Sugar Ray Robinson, LaMotta was World Middleweight Champion from 1949 to 1951.
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