Every generation has to find their own heroes.

The character of Rocky was built on the idea that he was chosen to do something. That's why the first image in Rocky is the picture of Christ.

If it's not broken, break it. That's how new discoveries are made. That's why everything that changes life is called a breakthrough.

I keep trying to tell people. I said, at 40, 45, you're at that crossroads. You really are there. And it's not like you can have gain without pain, but this is it. The days are - like when I wrote this whole thing about, in the beginning of my first magazine. I said, "If you live to be 75 years old, that's 3,900 weekends. That's it."

I'd live in a museum if I could. I used to spend hours and hours in the Museum of Modern Art.

I wish I had thought of Velcro muscles myself. I didn't have to go to the gym for all those years, all the hours wedded to the iron game, as we call it.

There'll never be a 'Rocky IV.' You gotta call a halt.