Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris: 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 b...
Frankie Dunn: What's she sayin'? Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris: Wants to know what you're readin'. Frankie Dunn: It's Yeats. [turns to Maggie] Frankie Dunn: Keep your head back. Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris: Why don't you talk a little Yeats to her? Show her wh...
[repeated line] Frankie Dunn: I don't train girls.
Maggie Fitzgerald: You got any family, boss? Frankie Dunn: What? Maggie Fitzgerald: You're spending so much time with me. I didn't know if you had any. Frankie Dunn: Well, I've got a daughter, Katie. Maggie Fitzgerald: Well that's family. Frankie Dun...
Frankie Dunn: [Reads a script from a book in Gaelic] Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris: What the hell kind of language is that? Frankie Dunn: What do you want? Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris: I just thought you should know you got a fighter out there not talking to a...
Frankie Dunn: I'm gonna get you out of here. These doctors around here don't know squat. Otherwise, why would they be living out here in the desert? As soon as you're able to be moved, we'll find someplace where they've actually studied medicine,
Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris: She grew up knowing one thing: she was trash.
Frankie Dunn: [about Danger] He paid his dues? Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris: Dues? The boy can't afford pants, you want him to pay dues? Frankie Dunn: Get out of my office!
Frankie Dunn: Don't call me Boss. I'm not your boss and don't you be calling me that. Maggie Fitzgerald: If I stop callin' you Boss, will you train me? Frankie Dunn: No. Maggie Fitzgerald: Then I might as well just keep callin you it!
Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris: Yeah right, you're the smart one. You're the one learning Greek. Frankie Dunn: It's Gaelic. Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris: Well you just protected yourself out of a championship fight! How do you say that in Gaelic?
Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris: [narrator/Dupris] "Maggie always did like taking 'em out in the first round."
Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris: I have HBO.
Danger Barch: Oh, look, I'm Shawrelle! I'm humping the canvas!
Danger Barch: [Repeated line; yelling] And I challenge the "Motor City Cobra", Thomas "Hit Man" Hearns to fight me for the Welterweight Championship of the whole world!
Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris: Boxing is an unnatural act. Cos everything in it is backwards. You wanna move to the left, you don't step left, you push on the right toe. To move right, you use your left toe. Instead of running from the pain - like a sane p...
Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris: [about Maggie's decision to go by air and back by car] She made her return trip by ambulance.
Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris: Damndest thing. So, What's the plan? I know you got one, so you might as well tell me what it is. Frankie Dunn: It's your fault. Yeah, it's your fault she's lying in there like that. You kept after me until I trained her. I k...
Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris: Boxing is about respect. Getting it for yourself, and taking it away from the other guy.