"If there's magic in boxing, it's the magic of fighting battles beyond endurance, beyond cracked ribs, ruptured kidney…"

"To make a fighter you gotta strip them down to bare wood: you can't just tell 'em to forget everything you know , you…"

"All fighters are pig-headed some way or another: some part of them always thinks they know better than you about some…"

"Frankie likes to say that boxing is an unnatural act, that everything in boxing is backwards: sometimes the best way …"

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

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

"I'm 32, Mr. Dunn, and I'm here celebrating the fact that I spent another year scraping dishes and waitressing which i…"

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

"Girlie, tough ain't enough."

"Hilary Swank - Maggie Fitzgerald"