The one thing in my films, I only kill people who need to be killed, or killers killing killers. And I believe that the violence is very justifiable.

The biggest and most interesting crisis in the world is the human crisis, and it never gets boring. It goes back to Shakespeare. You don't need a gimmick; it's just man against man and their intolerance of each other.

Time is truly the great enemy. It's not the great healer, it's the great stealer.

Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.

Polo is like tennis - you literally have to live it.

Age is a state of old mind. It gets to a point where if you get old enough, you forget how old you are, and that's the best thing. And then you walk around kind of like in a fog.

I've always boxed a certain way. But with Rocky, the character himself had to be kind of awkward. So I had to learn to fight that way.