"[to Achilles] If you stay in Larissa, you will find peace. You will find a wonderful woman, and you will have sons and daughters, who will have children. And they'll all love you and remember your name. But when your children are dead, and their children after them, your name will be lost. If you go to Troy, glory will be yours. They will write stories about your victories for thousands of years and the world will honor your name. But if you go to Troy, you will never come back, for your glory walks hand-in-hand with your doom. And I shall never see you again."

"[last words, as Greek soldiers plunder a temple] HAVE YOU NO HONOR?!"

"Even enemies can show respect."

"[to Hector] No father ever had a better son."

"I loved my boy from the moment he opened his eyes until the moment you closed them. Let me wash his body. Let me say the prayers. Let me place two coins on his eyes for the boatman."

"I have endured what no one on earth has endured before. I kissed the hands of the man who killed my son."

"[giving Paris the Sword of Troy] My father carried this sword, and his father before him, all the way back to the founding of Troy. The history of our people was written with this sword. Carry it with you tomorrow. The spirit of Troy is in that sword. So long as a Trojan carries it, our people have a future."

"I've fought many wars in my time. Some I've fought for land, some for power, some for glory. But I suppose fighting for love makes more sense than all the rest."

"[giving the Sword of Troy to Aeneas] As long as it remains in the hands of a Trojan, our people have a future. Take them, Aeneas. Find them a new home."

"[at the discovery of the wooden horse] Father, burn it!"

"Father, you are a great king, because you love your country so much. Every blade of grass, every grain of sand, every rock in the river - you love all of Troy. That is the way I love Helen."

"[to Helen] If you come, we'll never be safe. Men will hunt us, the gods will curse us, but I'll love you. Until the day they burn my body, I'll love you."

"If I die, I don't know how much longer Troy will stand."

"I'm 32, Mr. Dunn, and I'm here celebrating the fact that I spent another year scraping dishes and waitressing which is what I've been doing since 13, and according to you I'll be 37 before I can even throw a decent punch, which I have to admit, after working on this speed bag for a month may be the God's simple truth. Other truth is, my brother's in prison, my sister cheats on welfare by pretending one of her babies is still alive, my daddy's dead, and my momma weighs 312lbs. If I was thinking straight I'd go back home, find a used trailer, buy a deep fryer and some Oreos. Problem is, this the only thing I ever felt good doing. If I'm too old for this then I got nothing. That enough truth to suit you?"

"I saw your last fight Shawrelle. You spent so much face time on the canvas, you thought the canvas had titties."

"If there's magic in boxing, it's the magic of fighting battles beyond endurance, beyond cracked ribs, ruptured kidneys and detached retinas. It's the magic of risking everything for a dream that nobody sees but you."

"Anybody can lose one fight, anybody can lose once, you'll come back from this you'll be champion of the world."

"To make a fighter you gotta strip them down to bare wood: you can't just tell 'em to forget everything you know , you gotta make 'em forget even their bones... make 'em so tired they only listen to you, only hear your voice, only do what you say and nothing else... show 'em how to keep their balance and take it away from the other guy... how to generate momentum off their right toe and how to flex your knees when you fire a jab... how to fight backing up so that the other guy doesn't want to come after you. Then you gotta show 'em all over again. Over and over and over... till they think they're born that way."

"All fighters are pig-headed some way or another: some part of them always thinks they know better than you about something. Truth is: even if they're wrong, even if that one thing is going to be the ruin of them, if you can beat that last bad out of them... they ain't fighters at all."

"Frankie likes to say that boxing is an unnatural act, that everything in boxing is backwards: sometimes the best way to deliver a punch is to step back... But step back too far and you ain't fighting at all."

"Clint Eastwood - Frankie Dunn"

"Hilary Swank - Maggie Fitzgerald"

"Girlie, tough ain't enough."

"Morgan Freeman - Eddie Dupris"

"I want you to jab, right in the tits, until they turn blue and fall off."

"Benito Martinez - Billie's manager"

"Michael Peña - Omar"

"Riki Lindhome - Mardell Fitzgerald"

"Margo Martindale - Earline Fitzgerald"

"Anthony Mackie - Shawrelle Berry"

"Brian F. O'Byrne - Father Horvak"

"Lucia Rijker - Billie "The Blue Bear""

"Mike Colter - "Big" Willie Little"

"Jay Baruchel - Danger Barch"

"Lorraine Gary - Ellen Brody"

"Murray Hamilton - Mayor Larry Vaughn"

"Carl Gottlieb - Ben Meadows"

"Jeffrey Kramer - Deputy Leonard 'Lenny' Hendricks"

"[from TV spot] There is a creature alive today who has survived millions of years of evolution, without change, without passion and without logic. It lives to kill - a mindless eating machine. It will attack and devour anything. It is as if God created the Devil, and gave him Jaws."

"The terrifying motion picture from the terrifying No. 1 best seller."