Budd Schulberg Quotes

Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?

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

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

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

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

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 it anymore.

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.

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

Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.

Tell Papa I admire him but from now on I plan to admire him from as far away as I can get.

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

In English the expression 'ancient Greece' includes the meaning of 'finished,' whereas for us Greece goes on living, for better or for worse; it is in life, has not expired yet.

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

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 than if you compare it to a bloody brawl in an alley.