- Dr. Webster: Tony, has any doctor ever advised you to quit boxing?
- Tony Banta: Yeah, I suppose.
- Dr. Webster: You suppose.
- Tony Banta: I mean a lot of guys have yelled at me to get out of the ring. Some of them might have been doctors.
- Alex Rieger: All you get for the fight tonight is twenty dollars?
- Tony Banta: Who else do you know rakes in five dollars a second?
- Lou-Lou: [referring to Reverend Jim] How many fights has he been in?
- Alex Rieger: Just the one with reality.
- Elaine Nardo: Maybe I'm insensitive but I don't see what the problem is, you know, I can't imagine missing that sport.
- Bobby Wheeler: Elaine, boxing is Tony's life. I mean it would be like me if I had to give up acting.
- Elaine Nardo: But when you act, no one gets brutalized.
- Louie De Palma: Only the playwright and anyone trapped in the theater,
- Bobby Wheeler: We got to tell him that boxing, it destroys your brain, it damages your nervous system, and it leaves you a stumbling, disoriented, pathetic wreck.
- Reverend Jim Ignatowski: And if that's what he wants, there are easier ways of getting there.
- Alex Rieger: I'm not really a cab driver. I'm just waiting for something better to come along. Y'know, like death.