You cannot train yourself. I feel the same way about Christianity and about what the church is: The church is the gym of the soul.

The man who can best gets along with women, is the man who can get along without them.

At the very end, the one person who Rambo should kill, he doesn't kill. He lets it live. Because you can't kill that kind of hypocritical bureaucracy. It goes on forever.

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.

I love being so tight on people in close-ups that the veins in their eyes look like the Mississippi River.

Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived.

Sometimes worst enemies like a Mohammed Ali and Joe Frazier that's what makes you fight so hard. Without them they never would have achieved greatness.