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Jake LaMotta
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Giacobbe La Motta (July 10, 1922 – September 19, 2017), better known as Jake LaMotta, nicknamed "The Bronx Bull" and "The Raging Bull", was a boxer who was world middleweight champion and whose life was as controversial outside the ring as it was inside it. He was portrayed as the main character of Raging Bull by Robert De Niro.
Quotes
You couldn't drop me! You never dropped me.
Words spoken to Sugar Ray Robinson after their sixth fight, 1951.
I fought Sugar Ray so often, I almost got diabetes.
Jake
Besides Bob Satterfield, the only ones who ever hurt me were my ex-wives.
Interview, Los Angeles Times, May 4, 1997
External links
Category:Boxers from the United States
Category:1922 births
Category:2017 deaths
Category:People from New York City
Category:International Boxing Hall of Fame inductees