Motivational sporting movies

[Beck]

Anyone else seen "Warrior"?  It's up there as one of my faves, along with Rocky and The Invicible.

[daxcuse]

Gladiator.   

[doc]

rudy

[stroke]

Anyone else seen "Warrior"?  It's up there as one of my faves, along with Rocky and The Invicible.

2 Thumbs up for Warrior, thanks for the reco! Reminded me of Doc's entire purse bet story

To add to the list,  Gattaca, old Ethan Hawke and Jude Law movie with a couple interesting swim races.  Pretty good spirit vs science story

[NMP]

linial rose ,
batam weight champion of the world
gave his money to his family and all his relatives back on the reservation ,
very sad

Funny story, I worked with the guy who played lionel rose in this movie as a bricklayer about 15 years ago after he'd done this movie.
The rumour was that he got half a mil for the role and that he threw a massive party for all his family and gave it all away then went back on the tools! Life imitating art?

Not sure if its 100% true as I never heard it from the horses mouth, but he was definitely back on the tools by 95!

One of my favourites is "Any Given Sunday" love the Inches speech 

[doc]

lional rose , what a sad ending to a break thru story for his community , was a terrific boxer , but was paired with one of the greats who went on to dominate the sport in his weight class .

[NMP]

I watched breaking away last night too. Good movie. It was funny when hes pacing off the truck doing 60MPH (100KM/Hr) and then it pans down to his legs and hes in the small chainring lol
Must be able to spin some high cadence