Rocky would definitely run for councilman. Maybe mayor. But these people are actually most effective in the family unit. That's where they shine.

Like I said, I've got too much respect for women to marry them, but that doesn't mean you can't support them emotionally and financially.

The older I get the more things I gotta leave behind.

When you're younger you just want to go out and make your mark in the world and doing that, quite often, the people that you love the most and the people you should be closest to suffer from estrangement. I'd be gone nine months a year, so how do you know anyone? When you come home you are a stranger.

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.'

People asked if I could have played the Terminator. Are you kidding? Not a chance, I never could have played the Terminator.

There aren't a lot of opportunities for that rite of passage that makes you a man. War is one of them, and violent sports are another.