Budd Schulberg Quotes
- Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?
- Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on.
- As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.
- Unless we know people well, we sit around with our words and our minds starched, afraid of being ourselves for fear of wrinkling them.
- Fights can be dumped in a dozen ways. Sometimes everybody but the fighter knows. Sometimes only the fighter knows.
- I’d like to be remembered as someone who used their ability as a novelist or as a dramatist to say the things he felt needed…
- I suppose it's too bad people can't be a little more consistent. But if they were, maybe they would stop being people.
- I coulda' had class. I coulda' been a contender! But instead I got a one way ticket to Palookaville.
- Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got…
- Boxing is a mental sport. Think of a prizefight as a chess game of mind and body, and you are a little closer to it…
- You can't eat your friends and have them too
- You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going
- Silence is the sure sign that youre on your way out in Hollywood.
- Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.
- Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on.
- I could have had class. I could have been a contender.
- Hey, you want to hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.