Wrestling Quotes by Mickey Rourke

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

— Mickey Rourke

Where I come from, being a hard man is being able to take a good beating and then get back up again…

— Mickey Rourke

I have so many boxing gloves around my house that I would get them confused with other gloves.

— Mickey Rourke

In boxing, you don't know what's going to happen. In wrestling, it's already prearranged.

— Mickey Rourke

Boxers are very isolated - or isolated within their own camps.

— Mickey Rourke

I never look backwards. I have always been an athlete. I boxed before I acted.

— Mickey Rourke

Wrestling and boxing is like Ping-Pong and rugby. There's no connection.

— Mickey Rourke

Wrestlers are all pretty busted-up by the ends of their careers.

— Mickey Rourke

I don't mind getting punched in the nose by a guy standing in front of me. It's getting stabbed in the back…

— Mickey Rourke

I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting…

— Mickey Rourke

Since I knew wrestling was all choreographed, I thought, Oh, they don't get hurt at all. But I walked away with a…

— Mickey Rourke

The acclaim I'm getting for 'The Wrestler' means everything in the world to me. But it also means I can't take my…

— Mickey Rourke

I get a call, and it's Howard Bingham, and he's got the champ on the line.Muhammad Ali didn't remember me from being…

— Mickey Rourke

The two sports are as different as Ping-Pong and rugby. In boxing, you don’t know what’s going to happen. In wrestling, it’s…

— Mickey Rourke