“Rape?” he says. “I never really raped anybody.” “But what about the woman you describe in your autobiography?” I ask. La Motta pauses for a long moment. “Well, I suppose I gave her a little push or something,” he says. “You know what it’s like to give a little extra pressure. It often happens when women get their first sex, they pretend that they didn’t want it to happen. It’s a game to them.”
"You know how it is: you slap around a broad just a little bit and everything is blown out of proportion.”