![]() How much you can take and keep moving forward. It’s about how hard you can get it and keep moving forward. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. It’s a very mean and nasty place and I don’t care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. ![]() The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. “Let me tell you something you already know. After having a stomach full of his boy telling him how he’s failed in life because of the shadow cast over him by his famous father, Rocky dishes out some tough love and tells Robert (Milo Ventimiglia), that somewhere along the way he stopped being true to himself and “Let people stick a finger in your face and tell you you’re no good.” Rocky then begins to really wax lyrical and delivers the sort of words everyone needs at times when they’re thinking of throwing in the towel. The back street brawler’s inner bar room philosopher comes into his own in Rocky Balboa with a father to son speech that is second to none. Although never the most articulate tool in the box, the Italian Stallion has always been something of a bar-room philosopher and boasts a strangely beautiful, albeit broken way with words. Although the crown of the rhyming and styling king of the ring would most definitely go to Muhammad Ali, you’d have to go a long way to find a better pugilist poet than Rocky Balboa.
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