But ya gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that and that ain’t you! You’re better than that! Now if you know what you’re worth then go out and get what you’re worth. How much you can take and keep moving forward. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. It’s a very mean and nasty place and I don’t care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. Let me tell you something you already know. And when things got hard, you started looking for something to blame, like a big shadow.

You let people stick a finger in your face and tell you you’re no good. Then the time comes for you to be your own man and take on the world, and you did.īut somewhere along the line, you changed. It was great just watching you, every day was like a privilege. This kid’s gonna be somebody better than anybody I ever knew.” And you grew up good and wonderful. “I’d hold you up to say to your mother, “this kid’s gonna be the best kid in the world. Let’s take a look at the rocky balboa speech to his son and then review what we can all take from this inspiring Rocky scene. We can all learn something from this Rocky motivational speech regardless of whether or not we are father or son.

The rocky balboa speech to his son is one of the most widely recognized scenes of any Rocky movie.

Script of rocky balboa speech to son