CAÑON CITY • It seems odd and out of place, the gladiator statue here by the front door of DiRito’s Italian Restaurant. It seems odd, until you see the gladiator tattooed on the arm of the owner and realize the statue stands for something.  The tattoo bears the living years of Greg DiRito’s father: 1934-2007. Toward the end, Bob DiRito kept asking his son about the gladiator — about the under-construction statue he commissioned for the restaurant.  However seemingly out of place, “For some reason, it was really important to him,” Greg says.  And so the statue stands here in honor of his father, the man Greg knew as his best friend before his business partner starting in 2001, when they opened the restaurant that is now a local staple. Honor — perhaps that’s what the statue stands for. Perhaps that’s what has kept Greg going at DiRito’s.  “I think it’s his love for Dad,” says Greg’s sister, Marian. “Not wanting to disappoint his father is the No. 1 thing.…