Top 250 Sylvester Stallone Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “There’ll never be a ‘Rocky IV.’ You gotta call a halt.”

— Sylvester Stallone

102. “I want to turn my attention to movies about love relationships. Exploring the female psyche – there ought to be some interesting discoveries there. Love stories. If you do it right, people want to hear romantic dialog.”

— Sylvester Stallone

103. “I think I came along at an opportune time. I don’t know if that would happen anymore, because the whole way of doing business in Hollywood has changed.”

— Sylvester Stallone

104. “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.”

— Sylvester Stallone

105. “If it’s not broken, break it. That’s how new discoveries are made. That’s why everything that changes life is called a breakthrough.”

— Sylvester Stallone

106. “You are what you leave behind.”

— Sylvester Stallone

107. “Your spiritual sense will make you either a winner or a loser.”

— Sylvester Stallone

108. “I realized, the older I get, the more difficult life becomes. It’s not easier, it’s more difficult.”

— Sylvester Stallone

109. “When you find the right components in your life, the right people, that gel with you, then you feel as though you’re invincible. It may be a fallacy, but you at least feel as though you can take all that life has to dish out.”

— Sylvester Stallone

110. “The problem is, your ego sometimes tells you that you can do many things. But sometimes it’s best to stay focused and be honest with yourself.”

— Sylvester Stallone

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

— Sylvester Stallone

112. “Halloween is the only time people can become what they want to be without getting fired.”

— Sylvester Stallone

113. “I really am a manifestation of my own fantasy.”

— Sylvester Stallone

114. “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. That’s where you set your goal.”

— Sylvester Stallone

115. “We do two things in life: We race the clock and everything is a struggle. One way or not, it’s a metaphorical battle all of the time.”

— Sylvester Stallone

116. “I’ve always said that the artist dies twice. And the first death is the hardest which is the career death, the creative death. The physical death is an inevitability.”

— Sylvester Stallone

117. “Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.”

— Sylvester Stallone

118. “If you’re gonna be a failure, at least be one at something you enjoy.”

— Sylvester Stallone

119. “I’m perceived to be this solitary character, but nothing could be further from the truth.”

— Sylvester Stallone

120. “I know I’m incredibly unpredictable, and that’s the only thing I’m sure of.”

— Sylvester Stallone

121. “There’s no one in the world close to Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is a phenomenon. He’s brilliant. Just because his physique belies that, don’t underestimate him.”

— Sylvester Stallone

122. “Real love is when you become selfless and you are more concerned about your mate’s or children’s egos than your own. You’re now a giver instead of a taker.”

— Sylvester Stallone

123. “Some people maybe try to justify their laziness. You take out what you put in and the more I go to church and the more I turn myself over to the process of believing in Jesus, and to listening to his word and have him guide my hand I feel the pressure’s off me.”

— Sylvester Stallone

124. “All young men want to prove themselves.”

— Sylvester Stallone

125. “I’m the Hiroshima of love.”

— Sylvester Stallone

126. “The body needs to rest. It needs a lot less exercise than you think.”

— Sylvester Stallone

127. “I tell people diets don’t work. And I don’t care what they say. I have tried them all.”

— Sylvester Stallone

128. “Once I stopped trying to always do everything my way, and once I asked for God’s help, things have truly gone a different direction.”

— Sylvester Stallone

129. “I think everyone has questions in their mind. Did they do their very best?”

— Sylvester Stallone

130. “Time is truly the great enemy. It’s not the great healer, it’s the great stealer.”

— Sylvester Stallone

131. “The man who can best gets along with women, is the man who can get along without them.”

— Sylvester Stallone

132. “At the end of the day, ‘Rocky’ is a love story, and he could never have reached the final bell without Adrian.”

— Sylvester Stallone

133. “The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can’t change. After I die, I’ll probably come back as a paintbrush.”

— Sylvester Stallone

134. “I believe there’s an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.”

— Sylvester Stallone

135. “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.”

— Sylvester Stallone

136. “At the very end, the one person who Rambo should kill, he doesn’t kill. He lets it live. Because you can’t kill that kind of hypocritical bureaucracy. It goes on forever.”

— Sylvester Stallone

137. “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.”

— Sylvester Stallone

138. “I think kids growing up, if they were picked on and feeling inferior at 12, they’re going to feel that way at 72. You just deal with it better. I’m serious.”

— Sylvester Stallone

139. “People don’t realize that when they ‘throw out’ their back, it’s often because of weak abs. These muscles are essential for lower-back strength and good posture.”

— Sylvester Stallone

140. “Boxing is a great way to vent. I don’t know if there is a better way, I think for women too. There is something so primal about it and it’s the best exercise in the world, even if you don’t ever get in the ring.”

— Sylvester Stallone

141. “I think there’s something about being a neophyte that’s refreshing and hard to duplicate; it brings about real innovation. Innovation usually comes about through blind ignorance.”

— Sylvester Stallone

142. “Sometimes when I don’t want to cry, I cry. And when I want to I can’t. It’s subconscious. Like sexual performance.”

— Sylvester Stallone

143. “It took me a long time to be convinced that marriage was right for me because I’ve come from a long line of broken marriages. My parents divorced, and I had two broken marriages myself.”

— Sylvester Stallone

144. “I’ve kind of fashioned my life after a Slinky. Bend me in a million shapes, and eventually I’ll spring back to what I originally was.”

— Sylvester Stallone

145. “I’m not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren’t straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.”

— Sylvester Stallone

146. “I was an insecure kid. Once I saw ‘Hercules’ with Steve Reeves, it completely changed my life. If I had never gone to that film, I wouldn’t be here today.”

— Sylvester Stallone

147. “A lot of actors, and artists in general, never feel secure in love. They always feel everything’s going to be taken away from them, professionally and personally; they’re extremely emotional and volatile.”

— Sylvester Stallone

148. “A lot of guys have muscles. A lot of strong men in this world. I think it’s important to show that even under all this strength there’s a fragile side, a side that can be affected.”

— Sylvester Stallone

149. “I’m astounded by people who take eighteen years to write something. That’s how long it took that guy to write Madame Bovary, and was that ever on the best-seller list?”

— Sylvester Stallone

150. “If you come into my house, I’m going to fight much more viciously to get you out than if we were on a neutral piece of land.”

— Sylvester Stallone