Jake Lamotta was an American professional boxer who held the world middleweight championship twice. He was known for his ferocious fighting style, which earned him the nickname the bull from boxing promoter Bob Arum. Lamotta also appeared in the 1970 Martin Scorsese film Raging Bull, playing opposite Robert De Niro as self-destructive boxer Jake LaMotta. In this blog post, we’ll take a closer look at Lamotta’s life and career inside and outside of the ring.
Here are the strongest Sugar, Life, Hurt, Fighting, Punch quotes from Jake Lamotta, and much more.
I fought Sugar Ray so many times, I’m surprised I’m not diabetic. โ Jake Lamotta
I fought Sugar Ray Robinson so many times, it’s a wonder I don’t have diabetes. โ Jake Lamotta
The three toughest fighters I ever fought were Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson and Sugar Ray Robinson. I fought Sugar so many times, I’m surprised I’m not diabetic. โ Jake Lamotta
I fought Sugar Ray six times. Pound for pound the greatest fighter who ever lived. โ Jake Lamotta
JAKE LAMOTTA QUOTES ABOUT FIGHTING
Counting amateur fights, I have over a thousand bouts. โ Jake Lamotta
You can’t fight if you have any compassion or anything like that. โ Jake Lamotta
You don’t compare a guy with 30 or 40 fights with a guy who had 200 fights and fought over 25 years. โ Jake Lamotta
Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest, poundโforโpound, ever. He fought most of his career with just one loss, and that was to me. He had 131 fights with one loss. โ Jake Lamotta
Besides being a slum kid with no great education in anything except how to fight and stay alive and steal, I also had this temper. โ Jake Lamotta
I fought from the time I was eight years old, sometimes three, four fights a night. We did it to eat, and we did it because we were just tough kids. โ Jake Lamotta
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I purposely lost a fight to Billy Fox because they promised me that I would get a shot to fight for the title if I did. โ Jake Lamotta
I’m the Godfather of Boxing. Everything is out in the open with me. What you see is what you get. โ Jake Lamotta
JAKE LAMOTTA QUOTES ON HURT
I conditioned myself many years ago that nobody could hurt me. โ Jake Lamotta
People get in auto accidents, they’re paralyzed for life. I got hurt worse getting married. โ Jake Lamotta
My nose was broken six times, my hands six times, a few fractured ribs. Fifty stitches over my eyes. But the only place I got hurt was out of the ring. โ Jake Lamotta
I was able to convince my body that I could take it and nobody could hurt me. I might’ve gotten cut, stitches over my eyes. Broken nose. Broken hands. But I never really got hurt. โ Jake Lamotta
Inspiring Phrases From Jake Lamotta
Fear is unnecessary. โ Jake Lamotta
Big money causes me too much trouble with my exโwives and the government. All I want is to keep busy and to be comfortable. โ Jake Lamotta
I always needed money when I was younger. I had different ways of getting it. A lot of the ways I don’t like to talk about. โ Jake Lamotta
I lost a lot of money, lost my wife and kids. โ Jake Lamotta
I play solitaire and wait for something to happen. โ Jake Lamotta
There’s no way I’m goin’ down. I don’t go down for nobody. โ Jake Lamotta
Whenever I did have a lot of money, I got in trouble. โ Jake Lamotta