MEMORABLE QUOTE FROM THE MOVIES

I had just finished watching an old movie, 'Over The Top', on StarHub cable television, starring Sylvester Stallone as Lincoln Hawk, a struggling trucker. After the death of his wife, he was trying to rebuild his life around his young son, Mike, whom he had left behind years earlier.

Upon their first meeting, his son didn't think too highly of him, until he entered the nation-wide arm wrestling competition in Las Vegas.

In one particular scene, Lincoln was teaching his son how to take on an arm-wrestling encounter with another boy. Mike lost the first round, & just walked away, obviously very disheartened. That's when Lincoln told his son about the harsh reality of life:

"The world meets nobody halfway. When you want something, you gotta take it."

To me, Lincoln sounded almost like Rocky.

Nonetheless, Mike went back to beat the boy confidently in a return match.