Training and working in Philadelphia is a very unusual situation because that city does believe that Rocky is real. No one calls me Sylvester, it's Rocky.

When you're scared, when you're hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you're going to see what you're really made of.

You have to grab life by the throat and squeeze before it grabs you by your neck and breaks it. Own your destiny.

If you look at people that have survived crashing in the mountains and lived up in the snow for 40 days - it's possible to do extraordinary feats.

I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.

When crossing someone's borders you have to be prepared to engage in a war that is far more brutal than if it were to take place on neutral territory.

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