Rocky III Page #5

...and your untiring participation

in this city's many charity functions...

...it is with great honour

that we present this memorial...

...which will stand always as a celebration

to the indomitable spirit of man.

Philadelphia salutes

its favourite son... Rocky Balboa!

(cheering)

- It's beautiful.

- Definitely a thing of beauty.

(chanting) Rocky! Rocky!

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

I don't know, what... what do you say

to something like this?

About three years ago...

...this city...

really took me inside, you know?

And I wanna thank you very much

for that. I really do.

And I been thinking... I wasn't gonna

bring this up, but I might as well now.

I would never do anything

to hurt this sport...

...that has been... so really good to me.

I been talkin' it over

with my wife and my manager.

We think that...

It's really hard to do this. I feel like, uh...

I'm thinkin' maybe it's time

that I should, uh...

...step down maybe and... retire.

(shouts of protest)

Gettin' out while you can? Don't give

this sucker no statue. Give him guts!

I told you I wasn't goin' away.

You got your shot. Now gimme mine.

- Why don't you get the hell outta there?

- Shut up, old man!

Tell these folks why you've ducked me.

Politics, man!

This country wants to keep me down.

They don't want a man like me to have

the title because I'm not a puppet like you.

- You know, you've got a big mouth.

- Why don't you close it, Balboa?

- Any time.

- The guy's crazy. Don't listen to him.

The little man don't wanna come to me,

so I'll lay out the truth.

I am ranked number one. One!

That means I'm the best.

But this bum takes the easy matches,

fights other bums.

I'm tellin' you and everybody here. I'll

fight him anywhere, any time... for nothin'.

(heckling)

But you people ain't gonna see that,

cos he's gonna retire.

You see, he don't fight no real man.

He fight them set-ups.

- What?

- You're a disgrace to this sport.

Shut up, old man!

You don't know where I came from.

Balboa, your family doin' real nice.

You call yourself a fighter, prove it.

Give me the same chance.

The way you been duckin' is a disgrace.

If he ain't no coward,

why don't he fight me?

- I can't listen to this...

- I don't care what you're ranked.

- You don't get no shot, and I mean that!

- What are you doin'? I wanna fight him.

Well, you got him.

But you fight him without me.

- What are you sayin'?

- It's finished. I don't want no more of this.

I don't want no more of it.

You understand? None of it!

It's over with!

Hey, woman! Hey, woman. Listen here.

Since your old man ain't got no heart,

maybe you wanna see a real man?

I bet you stay up every night

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