Wrestlers Are All Pretty Busted-up

By The End Of The Shoot [of Wrestler], My Trainer Was Pushing Me Up Three Flights Of Stairs To My House And Holding My Arm Like I Was An Old Cripple. I Had Three Mris In The First Two Months Of Working On The Film. I Felt Like It Really Was Over By The Time We Started Shooting The Movie.

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.

I'm The Worst Surfer In California. My Balance Is Off From Boxing.

Change For Me Was Really Hard Because I Had Built Myself Up To Be A Certain Kind Of Man My Whole Life, As Men Are Where I Come From. I Thought I Got To Handle Things Different That's Gonna Make Me Feel Like A Real Pussy. For Me It Was Hard To Turn The Other Cheek. Even Though It's A Stronger Choice. It Was Very Hard To Make The Change, But I Had To In Order To Survive. Otherwise They Would Have Won.

In Boxing, You Don't Know What's Going To Happen. In Wrestling, It's Already Prearranged.