Rico Rodriguez Quotes
I just started watching wrestling in 2008, and I've loved it ever since. I told my mom I wanted to become a wrestler.
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I think sports and bodybuilding were the only things that saved me from getting beat up. People are not pleased, for whatever reason, when you can answer all the questions in class. If not for the respect I got from track, cross-country, wrestling and bodybuilding, it would have been a disaster.
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It's really exciting to be able to represent the cruiserweights and go to Monday Night Raw. I grew up watching Monday Night Raw, and it's really a big dream of mine to perform on that stage.
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It's definitely weird, because pretty much everybody owns the Tony Hawk videogame. Just going over to people's houses and watching play me as I walk in – that's actually happened a few times and that's so weird. It's like, 'Dude, you're playing me right now.' It was too weird.
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My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
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I've always loved Def Leppard, ever since I was little.
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My wrestling and family go together. It's always been that way, from day one with my mom and dad, my sister, my wife, four daughters, grandsons, son-in-laws.
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Like many other kids, I liked watching anime.
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I fell in love with the whole process of making a movie. I loved the sets. I loved watching the actors and the crew.
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I sort of approach wrestling the way Johnny Depp approaches movies. I don't really care necessarily what I'm portraying.
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It's about working when nobody's watching.
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Everybody that's employed by 'WWE' - the biggest wrestling company in the world - should be good wrestlers able to tell good stories.
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I started wrestling at ten. I played a lot of other sports: soccer, football. I really enjoyed skiing. But wrestling just took off for me. It seemed to be the sport I had an affinity for; I liked the individual, combative nature. There's something special about that. It took me all the places I wanted to go.
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I find too often in the wrestling business, you just wrestle, get to the hotel, make your money. Sometimes I have to stop and remind myself to enjoy my life and not just rush through.
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Many of those who have paid the ultimate price for freedom have come through the wrestling ranks. We need to honor them and win this decision to have wrestling - the world's oldest sport - remain a part of the most prestigious athletic competition in the world, the Olympics.
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I love people, watching people interact. It's a lot of psychology. We learn about ourselves by watching other people's lives on the screen.
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I owe a lot to my dad, just for having provided the wrestling business for us to get into.
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More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.
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I love watching people enjoying food. It's very relaxing for me to cook.
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Wrestling is a hard sport, but it's only a sport.
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I think the best wrestling always needs to pretend to be real, and Vince Russo's wrestling is so pathetically far-fetched and phony that I think he does a disservice to his wrestlers and the business.
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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I'm going to start a new career as a singer, I think. I'm going to go the way of Russell Crowe.
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I've got a terrible memory; it's probably because I'm always concentrating on what I'm doing now.
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I just started watching wrestling in 2008, and I've loved it ever since. I told my mom I wanted to become a wrestler.
