Budd Schulberg Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You can't eat your friends and have them too

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.

I'm amazed that Fitzgerald's books now sell millions, ... Nobody believed in him then. It was so sad. He was about 40, but I thought of him as an old man.

Darryl Zanuck turned us down at Twentieth Century-Fox. He told us no one is going to care about a lot of sweaty longshoremen.

I ran the newspaper, at Dartmouth, and there was a marble quarry strike about 40 miles away,

He thought they were the new art form.

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.

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.

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

Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.

You know what's wrong with our waterfront? It's the love of a lousy buck. It's making the love of a buck, the cushy job, more important than the love of man. It's forgetting that every fellow down here's your brother in Christ.

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

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 to be said about the society while being as entertaining as possible. Because if you don’t entertain, nobody’s listening.

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

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.

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

Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?