Budd Schulberg

I coulda' had class. I coulda' been a contender! But instead I got a one way ticket to Palookaville.

— Budd Schulberg

In English the expression 'ancient Greece' includes the meaning of 'finished,' whereas for us Greece goes on living, for better or for…

— Budd Schulberg

As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.

— Budd Schulberg

“They looked at each other until they weren't acquaintances any longer.”

— Budd Schulberg

Fights can be dumped in a dozen ways. Sometimes everybody but the fighter knows. Sometimes only the fighter knows.

— Budd Schulberg

“It made me uncomfortable. I guess I've always been afraid of people who can be agile without grace.”

— Budd Schulberg

“Most of us are ready to greet our worst enemies like long-lost brothers if we think they can show us a good…

— Budd Schulberg

You can't eat your friends and have them too

— Budd Schulberg

Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.

— Budd Schulberg

Hey, you want to hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.

— Budd Schulberg

Boxing is a mental sport. Think of a prizefight as a chess game of mind and body, and you are a little…

— Budd Schulberg

I don't like the country. The crickets make me nervous.

— Budd Schulberg

You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very…

— Budd Schulberg

I’d like to be remembered as someone who used their ability as a novelist or as a dramatist to say the things…

— Budd Schulberg

“I thought of Sammy Glick rocking in his cradle of hate, malnutrition, prejudice, suspicions, amorality, the anarchy of the poor; I thought…

— Budd Schulberg

I suppose it's too bad people can't be a little more consistent. But if they were, maybe they would stop being people.

— Budd Schulberg

Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on.

— Budd Schulberg

Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?

— Budd Schulberg

I could have had class. I could have been a contender.

— Budd Schulberg

Silence is the sure sign that youre on your way out in Hollywood.

— Budd Schulberg

Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when…

— Budd Schulberg

“I believed him because the truth is never hard to recognize. Nothing is ever quite so drab and repetitious and forlorn and…

— Budd Schulberg

Silence is the sure sign that you're on your way out in Hollywood.

— Budd Schulberg

Unless we know people well, we sit around with our words and our minds starched, afraid of being ourselves for fear of…

— Budd Schulberg

Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on.

— Budd Schulberg