- Army: [Crying] Tell me, why is it so many people have to feed off of one guy's misery? Doesn't it... Tell me Maish, doesn't it make you wanna die?
- Grace Carney: Mr. McClintock, I think we'll be able to find you something that you'll like. Just give us time.
- Harlan 'Mountain' McClintock: Something that I like? Well, you do that, Miss, 'cause I don't want very much. See, what I want is the heavyweight championship of the world! That's all!
- Maish Rennick: The doc says you've had it. No more!
- Harlan 'Mountain' McClintock: So what'll I do?
- Maish Rennick: Well, I dunno, you do whatever you wanna do! Anything you like! It's as easy as that!
- Harlan 'Mountain' McClintock: No, no, no no! I mean a guy's gotta DO something!
- Harlan 'Mountain' McClintock: You know that all the dirty, crummy fourteen years I fought for you, I never felt ashamed, Maish. Not one round, not one single minute! And now I feel ashamed!
- Army: Listen to me! I'll tell you what he is, Maesh. This boy, he's a decent man! He's a man with a heart! He's somebody with flesh and blood, you can't sell this on the market by the pound! Because if you do, Maesh, if you do, you'll rot in the gutter for it! Understand me? You'll rot!
- Doctor: [after examining 'The Mountain' McClintock] The Mountain and I will retire this week.
- Maish Rennick: What do you mean?
- Doctor: No more. He's through.
- Maish Rennick: Hold on, I could let him rest up, I got nothing scheduled for him!
- Doctor: He can rest up for the rest of his life.
- Maish Rennick: What are you talking about? He spends fourteen years in the ring, suddenly he gets a little cut, and you want to put him out to pasture?
- Doctor: Suddenly? It doesn't go fourteen years and then 'suddenly'. It's never one cut, it's fourteen years of cuts!
- Harlan 'Mountain' McClintock: [Notices Grace glancing at the old boxers chatting loudly in the bar] Oh, that' goes on all the time around here. Maesh says this part of the room is the graveyard. And these guys spend their time dying in here. You know, fighting their lives away inside their heads. That's what Maesh says.
- Grace Carney: That's pretty sad.
- Harlan 'Mountain' McClintock: Yeah, I suppose it is.
- Maish Rennick: Army, be there at least, will you? I mean don't- don't leave him alone.
- Army: I can't leave him alone. He'll do it for you even if I'm not there. So I'll be there.