“You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.”
— Sylvester Stallone
“Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.”
“Going that one more round when you don’t think you can – that’s what makes all the difference in your life.”
“I am not the richest, smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going.”
“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.”
“Every time I've failed, people had me out for the count, but I always come back.”
“Now, if you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain’t you. You’re better than that!”
“I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind and furious optimism.”
“I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.”
“Success is usually the culmination of controlling failures.”
“There’s a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone.”
“Now if you know what you’re worth. Then go out and get what you’re worth.”
“Don’t discuss your dreams. Pursue them!”
“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.”
“The world meets nobody halfway. When you want something, you gotta take it.”
“Dreams cost nothing. They are free. The hard part is just keeping them going.”
“When I was in junior high school, the teacher voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.”
“Every rep I did on chin-ups, on squats with 500 pounds, I never said, to myself, ‘Oh, my God, another rep.’ I said, ‘Yes, another rep, because that will make my dream turn into a reality.’”
“Ya gotta do what ya gotta do.”
“Plan B. You’ve always got to have a Plan B.”
“I’d rather do something I love badly than to feel bad about not doing something I love.”
“Nothing is real if you don’t believe in who you are!”
“The older I get the more things I gotta leave behind.”
“I think there comes a time when you realize that you need God in your life, God’s Word, and the spiritual guidance that only He can give.”
“Don’t be gullible, use life before it uses you. Understand there are no free lunches, and for every action you take, there’s a reaction.”
“You have to be really loyal to the people that supported you when you were coming up.”
“Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but the loyalty never fades.”
“You have to grab life by the throat and squeeze before it grabs you by your neck and breaks it. Own your destiny.”
“Life is more than sunglasses and hit movies. Reality – that’s the main event.”
“When life hits you pretty hard, you can go into a dark corner.”
“The church is the gym of the soul.”
“When you’re pushed killing is as easy as breathing.”
“I’m not right wing, I’m not left wing. I love my country.”
“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.”
“Gangster is the truest friend I can ever ask for.”
“If you think people are inherently good, you get rid of the police for 24 hours – see what happens.”
“When boxers are in the ring, they’re simple. It’s when the fight is over, that’s when the other fight, the real fight, begins. That’s the problem.”
“If I’d succeeded right away at acting I wouldn’t have sought out writing.”
“Once in one’s life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived.”
“Clothing is the first step to building a character.”
“Study people’s success stories hard. Study their failures even harder.”
“You’re a disease. And I’m the cure.”
“Every morning, I crawl out of bed. I sit there and think, ‘Do I really need this?’ And I drag myself to the gym in my garage. It’s not fun. I hate it. I work out alone. Weights.”
“I thought I had reached a point in life where everything would be smooth. But it is not. It just gets more jagged and pitted and filled with turns that take you into the dark recesses of your mind. It never seems to get easy.”
“I’m usually taken for a non-intellectual, a person of limited intelligence. I don’t know why, but I figure it’s because physically I don’t look intelligent.”
“In the movies, I kill guys with an axe. In real life, I can’t control a nine-year-old girl.”
“Movies are the work of a collective conscious. It takes 500-800 people on a movie to complete a vision.”
“Through failure, I found different ways to reverse my problems and get into the mainstream of Hollywood.”
“I thought marriage was tough. Golf’s like going over Niagara Falls in a barrel! It’s a psychological game that gets into your blood.”
“Back there I could fly a gunship, I could drive a tank, I was in charge of million dollar equipment, back here I can’t even hold a job PARKING CARS!”
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