No one will hit you harder than life itself. It doesn't matter how hard you hit back. It's about how much you can take, and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward. That's how you win.

'Rocky' represents the optimistic side of life, and 'Rambo' represents purgatory.

Early on everyone should do, every time they do a big film, they should do a little film. It really does keep you grounded.

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.

Without love, loyalty, desires, passion, courage, dignities, faith, beliefs and all the other ingredients that go into making the human soul something so elevated that only God knows its limits, we are only shells bobbing aimlessly in a calm sea of mediocrity. ...And if you can figure that out, please write and explain it to me because you're a better man than I am.

There are endless exercises for arms, but the basics are best-chinups and pushups.

People assume that 'The Expendables' is old school, but it's only old school because that's the way I know how to make an action film. It's pretty real.