{"id":94,"date":"2007-06-21T17:22:37","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T22:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=94"},"modified":"2010-11-06T09:43:53","modified_gmt":"2010-11-06T15:43:53","slug":"it-ain%e2%80%99t-about-how-hard-you-hit-it%e2%80%99s-about-how-hard-you-can-get-hit-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/it-ain%e2%80%99t-about-how-hard-you-hit-it%e2%80%99s-about-how-hard-you-can-get-hit-and\/","title":{"rendered":"It ain\u2019t about how hard you hit. It\u2019s about how hard you can get hit and"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rocky Balboa<\/em> is the final film in the \u201cRocky\u201d series. An aging Rocky is inspired to fight his last match against the undefeated heavyweight champion. Many people, including his son, believe Rocky will be humiliated.<\/p>\n

In this scene, Rocky and his adult son are standing outside Rocky\u2019s restaurant. His son is upset because Rocky has decided to fight again. He tells Rocky, \u201cNow, I\u2019m asking you, as a favor, not to go through with this. This is gonna end up bad for you, and it\u2019s gonna end up bad for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou think I\u2019m hurting you?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah. In a way, you are.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the last thing I ever wanted to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI know that\u2019s not what you wanna do, but that\u2019s just the way it is. Don\u2019t you care what people think? Doesn\u2019t it bother\"rocky-balboa\" you that people are making you out to be a joke, and that I\u2019ll be included in that? Do you think that\u2019s right?\u201d<\/p>\n

Rocky thinks for a moment, then points to the palm of his hand and says, \u201cYou ain\u2019t gonna believe this, but you used to fit right here. I\u2019d hold you up and say to your mother, \u2018This kid is gonna be the best kid in the world. This kid is gonna be somebody better than anybody ever knew.\u2019 And you grew up good and wonderful.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen the time came for you to be your own man and take on the world, and you did. But somewhere along the line, you changed. You stopped being you. You let people stick a finger in your face and tell you you\u2019re no good. And when things got hard, you started looking for someone to blame. The world ain\u2019t all sunshine and rainbows. It\u2019s a very mean and nasty place, and I don\u2019t care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut it ain\u2019t about how hard you hit. It\u2019s about how hard you can get hit and<\/em><\/span> keep moving forward\u2014how much you can take and keep moving forward. That\u2019s how winning is done! You gotta be willing to take the hits and not point fingers, saying you ain\u2019t where you wanna be because of him or her or anybody! Cowards do that, and that\u2019s not you!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rocky Balboa is the final film in the \u201cRocky\u201d series. An aging Rocky is inspired to fight his last match against the undefeated heavyweight champion. Many people, including his son, believe Rocky will be humiliated. In this scene, Rocky and his adult son are standing outside Rocky\u2019s restaurant. His son is upset because Rocky has … Continue reading “It ain\u2019t about how hard you hit. It\u2019s about how hard you can get hit and”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}