Where I come from, being a hard man is being able to take a good beating and then get back up again and carry on fighting.
Mickey RourkeI wanted to change my name to Romeo Florentino. Romeo Florentino - that's a good fighter's name.
Mickey RourkeI'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.
Mickey RourkeThe two sports are as different as Ping-Pong and rugby. In boxing, you donโt know whatโs going to happen. In wrestling, itโs already prearranged. But the thing I didnโt know about wrestling is that you really get hurt. Because, you know, youโre wrestling in front of a live audience, and you end up doing things like jumps or slams, and 40 percent of the time you donโt land right.
Mickey Rourke