Sylvester Stallone

When you're on top and you lead the parade, everyone's there throwing lilies and lilac water on your head. But when those parades have gone by and there's a storm in your heart, there are very few people that are going to sit there and listen to you bemoan life.

When I saw 'Hercules,' my mind just exploded because I was extremely thin; I was insecure. I literally ran out of the theatre and started lifting things, anything I could think of - milk crates. I'm still lifting things. It changed my life.

I learned the real meaning of love. Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people, you can set your watch by them. And that's love, even if it doesn't seem very exciting.

At the end of the day, 'Rocky' is a love story, and he could never have reached the final bell without Adrian.

I'm always looking for a new challenge. There are a lot of mountains to climb out there. When I run out of mountains, I'll build a new one.

I'll always have this blue-collar connection. For every guy, there is an opportunity to be a lot better than he thought he could be. We can't all be the star of the team, but we can be a star in our life.

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

I'm not a genetically superior person. I built my body.

Every time I've failed, people had me out for the count, but I always come back.

Life's not about how hard of a hit you can give... it's about how many you can take, and still keep moving forward.

People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight.

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.

I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.

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.

Going in one more round when you don't think you can - that's what makes all the difference in your life.