"I am not the richest, smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going."
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"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."
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"Remember the mind is your best muscle...BIG ARMS can move rocks, but BIG WORDS can move mountains... Ride the brain train for success."
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"Clothing is the first step to building a character."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"If you make exercise your hobby instead of your enemy it becomes your friend; it's the one thing that will never let you down. It will always be there for you and it will always make you better than you were before. Remember: every time you go to the gym, every time you put the right supplement in your mouth, you're better than you were ten minutes ago. [...] The irony is most people know what to do, they just don't do what they know."
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"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."
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"There is an age-old proverb that really does hold true in every area of life - in relations between nations and right down to the most subtle and sophisticated or must unstable and unsophisticated relations between lovers - and it is this: they took "kindness" for "weakness.""
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"That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood."
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"If you're willing to take the humiliation of sticking your head above the crowd, maybe it's, you know, the pleasure will be worth the pain."
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"I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager."
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"There aren't a lot of opportunities for that rite of passage that makes you a man. War is one of them, and violent sports are another."
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"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."
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"I'm not a genetically superior person. I built my body."
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"Movies are the work of a collective conscious. It takes 500-800 people on a movie to complete a vision."
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"I know people get upset and go, 'They're going to take away the assault weapon'. But who needs an assault weapon? Like, really, unless you're carrying out an assault."
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"I'd rather do something I love badly than to feel bad about not doing something I love."
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"I try to eliminate as much dialogue as possible, and I guess Rambo is my really best experiment with how to eliminate dialogue."
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