Fight For Life

09-01-2008

Adrian: Can I talk to you? I want to ask you something important and I want you to tell me the truth.
Rocky: What?
Adrian: Why did you come here?
Rocky: I just don't want it no more.
Adrian: If it's over because you want it to be over, I'm glad.
Rocky: I do.
Adrian: It's just... you've never quit anything since I know you.
Rocky: I don't know what you want me to say. I mean,I...what, what happen? How as everything that is so good is so bad?
Adrian: What's so bad? Tell me, what?
Rocky: I wrecked everything for not thinking for myself. I mean, Why couldn't Mickey tell me where I really was right from the start? I didn't need him to take care of me and lie to me for me to think that I was better when I wasn't.
Adrian: He never lied.
Rocky: Those fights weren't right. They weren't, Adrian.Never fought anybody that was on their prime. There was some angle to hold on to the title longer than I should had it. Do you understand what I'm sayin' here?
Adrian: I understand, but you got to understand that he loved you and that was his job, protecting you.
Rocky: Look, that protection doesn't help nothing. It all make things worse. You wake up after a few years thinking that you're a winner, but you're not. You're really a looser. And so I wouldn't kept the title so long, so what?! At least it would have been real, Adrian.
Adrian: It was real!
Rocky: Nothing is real if you don't believe in who you are!! I don't believe in myself no more, don't you understand? When a fighter don't believe, that's it! He's finished! That's it. It's over.
Adrian: That's not it!!
Rocky: That is it!
Adrian: Why don't you tell me the truth?!
Rocky: What are you putting me through, Adrian?!You want to know the truth?!The truth is, I don't wanna loose what I got. In the beginning I didn't care what happen to me. I could go to the ring, I get bust up, I didn't care!! But now there's you, there's the kid. I don't want to loose what I got!
Adrian: But what is that we have that can't be replaced? What?! A house, we got cars, we got money! We got everything but the truth. What's the truth, dammit?!
Rockiy: I'm afraid!!Alright?!Want to hear me say it?! Want to break me down? Alright, I'm afraid! For the first time in my life, I'm afraid.
Adrian: I'm afraid too. There's nothing wrong to be afraid.
Rocky: There is, for me, there is.
Adrian: Why? You're a human, aren't you?
Rocky: Look, I don't know what I am. All I know is that I'm a liar and because of that, Mickey isn't here no more.
Adrian: You didn't push into anything. He was a grown man and he did what he had to do. And you have no right for feeling guilty for what happened. You don't! You were a champion and you did what was expected of you to do. You did what I and everyone else thought you should do. And you're going to tell me that those fights weren't real? That you were carried? Well, I don't believe it! But it doesn't matter what I believe because you're the one that's got carry that fear around inside you. Afraid that everybody's going to take things away. Afraid that you'll be remembered as a coward, that you're not a man anymore. None of it's true. But it doesn't matter if I tell you, it doesn't matter because you're the one who's got to settle it. Get rid of it! Because when all the smoke is cleared and everyone stops chanting your name, there's just gona be us. And you can't live like this, we can't live like this because it's going to bother you for the rest of your life. Look what's doing to you now. Apollo thinks you can do it. So do I. But you got to want to do this for the right reasons. Not for the guilt over Mickey. not for the people, Not for the title, not for the money or me... but for you. Just you. Just you alone.
Rocky: And if I loose?
Adrian: Then you loose. But at least you loose with no excuses. No fear. And I know that you can live with that.
Rocky: How did you get so tough?
Adrian: I live with a fighter.
Rocky: I really love you. I love you.

Rocky III