MANY years ago, Paul Newman gave an interview to "Playboy" and he discussed how he researched the role for this movie. It ended up that he and Rocky Graziano would go out drinking every night and get snookered.

This was the first Paul Newman I ever saw (I was a young kid and it was on tv) and I thought he was a really cool actor. Little did I know then how much I was right.

Favorite line: when the trainer told him to get a cup (for inside the jock) and he replied he'd drink right out of the bottle.