Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.

For 'Rocky II,' I got a torn pectoral muscle, I got all beat up inside, I had to have an operation to splice things back together.

If you don't have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life.

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.

Remember the mind is your best muscle...BIG ARMS can move rocks, but BIG WORDS can move mountains... Ride the brain train for success.

I'm a patriot of the heart.

We're all expendable. We think the world's going to stop when a pope dies, or a king. And then... life goes on.