When I was a kid, my mother used to feed me mashed-potato sandwiches, brussel sprout sandwiches; my brain cells were starving from lack of food. I'll eat anything. I'll eat dirt.

Boxing is sort of an inevitability. We know they are going to be pounding each other.

If you look back at life, I bet you will regret about 80% of your actions. But life consists of all mistakes.

I've had a lot of operations. I'm kind of like Franken-actor.

The world meets nobody halfway. When you want something, you gotta take it.

The phenomenal thing that happened to me is that I was able to create two memorable men: one is the ultimate optimist, Rocky, and then you have Rambo, the ultimate pessimist. You're going to always be remembered for them, no matter what you do.

Rocky is a very predictable movie. The ending is a foregone conclusion.