Rocky Balboa:
Why'd you leave? Why'd you walk away like that?
Mickey:
Life's too short, kid.
Rocky Balboa:
Where you goin?
Mickey:
I'm goin on a permanent vacation.
Rocky Balboa:
What are you talkin about? We got one more fight.
Mickey:
No, no, not me, you.
Rocky Balboa:
Why you doin this?
[Mickey doesn't answer]
Rocky Balboa:
I said why you doin this?
Mickey:
Because you can't win, Rock! This guy'll kill you to death inside of three rounds!
Rocky Balboa:
You're crazy!
Mickey:
What else is new?
Rocky Balboa:
He's just another fighter!
Mickey:
No he ain't just another fighter. This guy is a wrecking machine and he's hungry! Hell, you ain't been hungry since you won that belt!
Rocky Balboa:
Aw, what are you talking about I've had 10 title defenses?
Mickey:
That was easy!
Rocky Balboa:
What do you mean easy?
Mickey:
They was hand picked!
Rocky Balboa:
Set ups?
Mickey:
Nah they wasn't set ups! They was good fighters but they wasn't killers like this guy. He'll knock you to tomorrow, Rock!
Rocky Balboa:
Jeez, Mick. Why'd you do it?
Mickey:
Because the beating that you got from Apollo should've killed you, kid. It didn't. It was my job to keep you winning and to keep you healthy.
Rocky Balboa:
You really don't think I got nothing left do you?
Mickey:
Well, Rock, let's put it this way. Now, three years ago you was supernatural. You was hard and you was nasty and you had this cast-iron jaw but then the worst thing happened to you, that could happen to any fighter. You got civilized. But don't worry kid. You know, presidents retire, horses retire, Man-o-war retired. They put him out to stud. That's what you should've done, retired.
Rocky Balboa:
I can't retire knowing all this, Mick.
