Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Rocky Graziano

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American athlete Rocky Graziano.
Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Rocky Graziano

Thomas Rocco Barbella, better known as Rocky Graziano, was an American professional boxer and actor who held the World Middleweight title. Graziano is considered one of the greatest knockout artists in boxing history, often displaying the capacity to take his opponent out with a single punch. He was ranked 23rd on The Ring magazine list of the greatest punchers of all time. He fought many of the best middleweights of the era including Sugar Ray Robinson. His turbulent and violent life story was the basis of the 1956 Oscar-winning drama film, Somebody Up There Likes Me, based on his 1955 autobiography of the same title.

I quit school in the sixth grade because of pneumonia. Not because I had it, but because I couldn't spell it.
It took me nine years to get through the fourth grade. When I got into television commercials, I had to take a crash course in reading. I was 32 years old, and I couldn't read the cue cards.
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.
Hey ma, your bad boy did good! — © Rocky Graziano
Hey ma, your bad boy did good!
The fight for survival is the fight
I give in to nothing or nobody. Cut me, break my bones, it was all the same.
I never stole nuttin' unless it began with an 'A' - A truck, a car, a payroll...!
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?
Everybody who is young is promising. The world should sue the young for breach of promise.
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