Mickey Rourke Quotes About Fighting

Quotes about: Fighting

• I grew up in a gym in Miami, the one where Muhammad Ali trained. I had 142 amateur fights and lost three.

  Mickey Rourke

  Fighting, Three, Miami

• Where I come from, being a hard man is being able to take a good beating and then get back up again and carry on fighting.

  Mickey Rourke

  Fighting, Men, Able

• I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job.

  Mickey Rourke

  Jobs, Tired, Fighting

• I tried to change my name for the fights, but the only way they could pay me money was if I used my own name. I wanted to change my name to, like, Romeo something-or-other, and they said, "No, we can't do that. We've got to use Mickey Rourke." Because they paid me a lot of money to go over to Europe and Asia to fight.

  Mickey Rourke

  Fighting, Europe, Names

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I started having some memory-loss issues. I took a neurological exam, and they said, "Well, you should stop fighting now." And I kept begging them for one more fight, one more fight, and the doctor said to me, "How much are they going to pay you?" I was supposed to fight three more times, and one would have been for a cruiser belt. So I said, "I just need to fight three more times." He said, "Listen, you can't even get hit in the head one more time, your neuro is so bad."

  Mickey Rourke

  Memories, Fighting, Loss

  Interview with Christopher Walken, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 16, 2009.

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