So anytime I feel like it I can sell that house from under your fat, lazy, hillbilly ass. MAGGIE: Momma, you take Mardell and JD and get home 'fore I tell that lawyer there that you were so worried about your welfare that you never signed those house papers like you were supposed to. When she finally realizes that her family is shamelessly trying to rip her off while she's lying there hopelessly injured, she finally gets the courage to send them packing. One thing Maggie's gained from her relationship with Frank, both personal and professional, is self-respect. In other words, we've watched her earn every ounce of admiration that she gets. We've seen her stay late at the Hit Pit, scrimp and save to buy her own speed bag, and deal with jerkwads like Shawrelle. When Maggie makes it big, her excitement is our excitement. After going her entire life without it, it's not hard to see why. "She may have come from 'trash,' as she puts it, but there's nobility in her heart," film critic Roger Moore explains. She's a consistently gracious winner, despite almost always knocking her opponent out cold in the first round. Under Frankie's guidance, she finally gets it. Maggie is a woman who has spent her entire life on a quest for respect. Dunn, so you don't need to make any more excuses to bump into me. But I thought you should know I ain't never leaving Mr. When she sees that successful manager Mickey Mack shows up at a restaurant she's at, she tells him right off the bat: "Her body language shouts," writes Newsweek's David Ansen ( source).
In the ring, she's a sinewy stick of dynamite. At the gas station, reflecting on her disappointing visit with her mother, her stare is heavier than a bag of bowling balls. When Frankie agrees to train her, she's absolutely giddy. With Maggie, what you see is what you get. Girl is grittier than an oyster at the beach. It's her tenacity and determination that finally convince Frankie to train her, and it's her fire and fortitude that propel her up the boxing ranks.įRANKIE: How many eyes do you need to finish this fight? MAGGIE: One's enough. "As it turns out, she lives it" ( source). Maggie practically lives at the Hit Pit, where a sign on the wall reads: "Winners are simply willing to do what losers won't." When it comes to that sign, "Maggie doesn't just believe it," claims Desson Thomson of The Washington Post.
Problem is, this is the only thing I ever felt good doing. If I was thinking straight, I'd go back home, find a used trailer, buy a deep fryer and some Oreos. Other truth is, my brother's in prison, my sister cheats on welfare by pretending one of her babies is still alive, my daddy's dead, and my momma weights 312 pounds. Dunn, and I'm here celebrating the fact that I spent another year scraping dishes and waitressing, which is what I've been doing since I was 13, and according to you, I'll be 37 before I can even throw a decent punch. She can't stop, won't stop, until she makes it, and she's more than willing to put in the hard work.
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She "is obsessed with the courage and determination to be somebody," Rex Reed writes, "even if wearing boxing gloves is the only way she knows how to do it" ( source). Maggie may live in Los Angeles, but Theodosia is never that far behind her, and triumphing over her cruddy background is a major motivator for her boxing career. Oh yeah, and she also tells Maggie that everybody makes fun of her for being a boxer. We get a bitter taste of what Maggie's early days were like when we first meet her mother, Earline, who treats the new house that Maggie gifts her like a cancer and chastises Maggie for complicating her welfare collection scheme. Maggie grew up poor, and-outside of her dad who passed away-she grew up without much support. She grew up knowing one thing: she was trash." Thanks for not sugar coating things, Scrap. "She came from southwestern Missouri," Scrap explains, "the hills outside the scratchy-ass Ozark town of Theodosia, set in the cedars and oak trees, somewhere between nowhere and goodbye. Maggie Fitzgerald wins a "humble beginnings" contest nine times out of ten.