Budd Schulberg
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"Budd Schulberg" was an American screenwriter, television producer, novelist and sports writer. He was known for his 1941 novel, What Makes Sammy Run?, his 1947 novel The Harder They Fall, his 1954 Academy Award-winning screenplay for On the Waterfront, and his 1957 screenplay for A Face in the Crowd (film)/A Face in the Crowd.

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You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going.

Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on.

You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Fights can be dumped in a dozen ways. Sometimes everybody but the fighter knows. Sometimes only the fighter knows.

As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.

Boxing is a mental sport. Think of a prizefight as a chess game of mind and body, and you are a little closer to it than if you compare it to a bloody brawl in an alley.

You don't understand. I could have had class. I could have been a contender.

Silence is the sure sign that you're on your way out in Hollywood.

Darryl Zanuck turned us down at Twentieth Century-Fox. He told us no one is going to care about a lot of sweaty longshoremen.

Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore.

Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?

I could have had class. I could have been a contender.