I wanted to change my name to Romeo Florentino. Romeo Florentino - that's a good fighter's name.

Wrestling and boxing is like Ping-Pong and rugby. There's no connection.

Hey, baby, nobody suffers like the poor.

When I was like 12 or 13,Muhammad Ali gave me a pair of his trunks that were white satin with gold stripes. They were full of blood, and my mother threw them away. I think it's the first time I ever cursed at my mother.

I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong.

I've been with a lot of women, but who's counting? It's nothing I'm proud of. It's a physical need. Sometimes afterwards I just want to blow my brains out, it's so meaningless.

By the end of the shoot [of Wrestler], my trainer was pushing me up three flights of stairs to my house and holding my arm like I was an old cripple. I had three MRIs in the first two months of working on the film. I felt like it really was over by the time we started shooting the movie.