Quotes by Budd Schulberg

• You can't eat your friends and have them too.
• Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on.
• Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.
• You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going.
• 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.
• Silence is the sure sign that you're on your way out in Hollywood.
• I could have had class. I could have been a contender.
• Hey, you want to hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.
• Fights can be dumped in a dozen ways. Sometimes everybody but the fighter knows. Sometimes only the fighter knows.