Wrestling Quotes
-
My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
-
It's good to go out and entertain these people, and you've got them on the edge of their seat, they're standing up. Then you know that you've done your job, you've entertained them. My way of entertaining them is going out and wrestling. Everyone's got their different ways.
-
I certainly would have regretted not getting into wrestling. It's been very lucrative for me and I've been fortunate to get into it and make money and not do anything stupid where I invested in something that collapsed.
-
A lot of my intensity in wrestling was due to my mental preparation before the matches. I got myself into a different world.
-
More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.
-
I owe a lot to my dad, just for having provided the wrestling business for us to get into.
-
I have learned so much personally from wrestling, and it has really bled into my daily life.
-
One of the wonderful things about wrestling, to me, is that you can protect people who have had head injuries.
-
I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.
-
Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.
-
I get a lot of influence from pro wrestling. People are like, 'Oh, it's fake.' But it's not about whether the guy wins or loses, it's about how he entertains you the whole time you're watching.
-
There are no tough guys in wrestling.
-
Wrestling is a hard sport, but it's only a sport.
-
Wrestling in Japan, obviously, the fans are a little bit different - very quiet, very respectful in New Japan - but here in the WWE, these fans are going nuts.
-
You go from Olympic wrestling into pro wrestling, and it's a very difficult transition, but if you make it, you can earn a great living while at the same time giving amateur wrestling a lot of exposure by being on TV every week. Fans know where you came from.
-
I busted my tail for so long, I'm just glad it's getting recognized now as part of the WWE. Because let's face it, the WWE is the biggest company out there when it comes to wrestling. I'm just happy that I'm being recognized as somebody who works hard, I guess.
-
Wrestling is ballet with violence.
-
Who would have ever thought that, within a couple months of getting into the WWE, that I'd be wrestling in the main event for the world championship? Then, nine months after getting here, actually being the world champion.
-
We take pride in making our Knockouts Division about wrestling, not about looking pretty.
-
I've been wrestling since I was 18 years old. And within the first five months of my wrestling career, I'd already had three concussions. And for years after that, I would get a concussion here and there, and it gets to the point that when you've been wrestling for 16 years, that adds up to a lot of concussions.
-
The cool thing about pro wrestling is we do a lot more acting as far as characters in general than MMA. I know a lot of people like the MMA fighters because they like the rugged look.
-
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.
-
I never excelled at one sport or had a very strong passion for anything other than wrestling and bodybuilding.
-
Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.
