Don’t discuss your dreams. Pursue them!
Study people’s success stories hard. Study their failures even harder.
Every generation, including mine, has to find their own heroes.
If it’s not broken, break it. That’s how new discoveries are made. That’s why everything that changes life is called a breakthrough.
Your spiritual sense will make you either a winner or a loser.
I would never run for president.
Every rep I did on chin-ups, on squats with 500 pounds, I never said, to myself, ‘Oh, my God, another rep.’ I said, ‘Yes, another rep, because that will make my dream turn into a reality.’
If you’re gonna be a failure, at least be one at something you enjoy.
The way to be successful in Hollywood is to be as obnoxious as the next guy.
Boxing is the only sport where you have the audience coming right up to you and saying, “You Stink.” And you got to deal with that. It’s like being in front of the lions.
Now, if you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain’t you. You’re better than that!
Gangster is the truest friend I can ever ask for.
The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can’t change. After I die, I’ll probably come back as a paintbrush.
If you express yourself too much, you’re considered weak.
I love being so tight on people in close-ups that the veins in their eyes look like the Mississippi River.
When you find the right components in your life, the right people, that gel with you, then you feel as though you’re invincible. It may be a fallacy, but you at least feel as though you can take all that life has to dish out.
Nothing is real if you don’t believe in who you are!
The champion’s management says let’s do this for real, for charity. Rocky says no but decides to be true to himself even though he’s going to be berated by everyone. Just to compete, not to win.
You have to grab life by the throat and squeeze before it grabs you by your neck and breaks it. Own your destiny.
I really am a manifestation of my own fantasy.