It's always been the case that you have the really rich, and the really poor. But hey, look, all the great empires have their periods where they rule the world, and then they crumble.

I tried to change my name for the fights, but the only way they could pay me money was if I used my own name. I wanted to change my name to, like, Romeo something-or-other, and they said, "No, we can't do that. We've got to use Mickey Rourke." Because they paid me a lot of money to go over to Europe and Asia to fight.

People ask me about that all the time. They say, "Did you ever think of directing?" And I say, "It's completely out of the question."

A reputation is really hard to live down.

I'm the worst surfer in California. My balance is off from boxing.

I still work out most days. When I do it, I go full blast five or six days a week, two to three hours a day. I enjoy it. It's therapeutic for me.

Hey, baby, nobody suffers like the poor.