Jake LaMotta Quotes

The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.

I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.

You have to discipline your children, or they won't respect you, law enforcement or God or anyone else.

My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I was playing I was a steamboat captain. She had no sense of the dignity of command.

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.

You guys got big uglies, fuumm-bull, and 'Whoa, Nellie.' What I got was, 'Lindsey, why are the trash cans still out front?' 'This homework needs more work,' and the inevitable was, 'How fast were you really going?'

I've learned a lot from the investigations and the trial. It's all my fault.

My mum will never let me be anything but grounded.

I learned from my dad and my mom somebody should only have to tell you once. Whether it's me getting in trouble, they said I should only have to tell you once. I've kind of took that and made that for all aspects.

There wasn't a lot of discipline in my life, and I hated it being imposed on me at school.

Let's not talk punishment.

I behaved worse than anybody for 15 years, and you have to pay the price for that. I used to blame other people, then therapy made me realise I had to change.

If people have done something wrong then they should be held accountable.

One person's embarrassment is another person's accountability.

When I was a kid and got in trouble, I'd always say, Mom, I'm in trouble. Well, Mom, I'm in trouble.

I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions.

I think that discipline is so much of an important part of being a parent. Because it's very, very important to teach your children to take responsibility for their actions.

I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.

My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?

In my family, if I talk back to my dad, I get in trouble.

I'll probably be punished for hard living.

One of the main rules with my mom was if I broke a club, she was going to take it and I wouldn't get it back. So I made sure I kept all my clubs.

I am a very strict mother, and as a mother, it's my responsibility to guide my kids and tell them to go how far and no further. There should be rules and guidelines for the kids, and they should know their limits.

I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in the classroom, get very bad grades.

That, Madam, is my misfortune, not my fault.