The Rocky inside you.
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
I love the movie Rocky. I bet you do too.
I did not know that the movie Rocky was written by Sylvester Stallone himself. He was actually a very poor guy before he started to be a famous actor.
I remember the story he told in one of his interviews how he used to own a dog. And Stallone did not have enough money to feed the dog. So what he did was to sell the dog. He sold his own dog! After some time Stallone found the producer that was willing to invest in the movie. And so Stallone got some money in advance. He decided to get his dog back. And what happened was that the guy who owned the dog, did not want to sell the dog back to Stallone. Stallone finally made him to sell, but for a much higher price. But the guy also had one condition. The dog has to play in the movie. Stallone agreed. The dog got its role. You can see the dog in one of the part of the Rocky series.
Before Stallone made it he was so poor he had no place to stay. He had literary nothing, he was just another homeless guy with this idea in his head that one day he is going to make it in Hollywood. He was once offered a nice lump of cash for his original script of the Rocky. He declined. Can you image that? You are so poor that you do not have a dime to buy food for your dog and here comes a man giving you cash for a script and you say: ”NO!”.
Who can do that?
I found this funny vid today about Rocky in 2013 running through Philadelphia streets:
I believe there is Rocky in all of us. The man who knows what he wants and goes for it with all his heart. But what is holding us back? Is it fear of the unknown, fear of not being good enough, fear of failure?
Well Rocky Balboa said it the best:
Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place, and I don’t care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward; how much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done! Now, if you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain’t you. You’re better than that!
I appreciate you and love you.
Cheers.
Maroschief.