Quotes from Sylvester Stallone

The only thing that I haven't done is perform brain surgery on myself. I've been very, very lucky. I've spared Shakespeare undue stress by not doing that.

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.

Remember the mind is your best muscle...BIG ARMS can move rocks, but BIG WORDS can move mountains... Ride the brain train for success.

I think everyone has a certain kind of formula in their life. When you deviate from that formula, you're going to fail big or you're gonna win big.

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

What I'm trying to do now in my life - not just with the building, but with everything - is to construct things that will have enduring qualities, and won't just be ephemeral flashes in the pan.

We're all expendable. We think the world's going to stop when a pope dies, or a king. And then... life goes on.

If you're gonna be a failure, at least be one at something you enjoy.

When life hits you pretty hard, you can go into a dark corner.

You know what I think happened? After 'Rocky,' I was almost set up in the eyes of the media to make a flop.

Sometimes I write with music on, and if I'm in a good flow, I don't even hear it.

I was an ambitious child and I tended to be scatterbrained. If I was at school and saw a bird outside the window I wanted to follow it. I was adventurous.

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.

You have to grab life by the throat and squeeze before it grabs you by your neck and breaks it. Own your destiny.

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.

The day I can't walk is the day I quit movies.

I wish I had thought of Velcro muscles myself. I didn't have to go to the gym for all those years, all the hours wedded to the iron game, as we call it.

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'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.

Today's action hero, his skills are through technology. He can fly, he can throw a bolt of lightning, he can freeze people.

I'm a big believer that, in life, we can't succeed in everything. Most times, we lose.

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.

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

In the movies, I kill guys with an axe. In real life, I can't control a nine-year-old girl.