So I Keep Hitting Back

I'd like to pay tribute to my idol, Mr. Sylvester Stallone. When Sly wrote Rocky, he was living in a rat infested home, with no electricity, no job, he wrote it by candlelight fighting off the rats, after working every shitty job in LA. And of course, you know he won the Oscar for Best Screenplay for a script he wrote when he was dirt poor and Best Picture to celebrate his American triumph of the underdog story. After some success his career experienced a lull about 10 years ago. He was living off his wife's earnings. He said it himself, that he went through a period where his phone did not ring. I remember that TO THIS DAY. And his wife said, THE RIGHT PERSON WOULD CALL. Then, he shopped the script for Rocky 6 and there were ZERO takers. Until one person, that one crucial person in life that is really all we need, that person said, YES. I'll produce it. And that produced the script below. Based on its success he made The Expendables, and y'all know how that turned out. Huge hit. And then he became a household name again. I was so touched by it, so moved by him that I went to Philly for my birthday oh so many years ago. It's not scripture but it's pretty close...for me. It's what inspires me to this day. It's what I have always been about, what I've believed in and what has kept me believing till this day. There may be movies of underdogs and there may be actual underdog stories about your life. To the underdogs...

...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!

----From Rocky 6.