I Have So Many Boxing Gloves Around

Boxers Are Very Isolated - Or Isolated Within Their Own Camps.

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.

Hollywood's Famous For Putting You In A Box.

I Did Think For Many, Many Years That Because Of My Ability I Could Beat The System. And I Was Wrong.

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.