Wrestling Quotes

• The reality, or substance, of professional wrestling is the ability to perpetuate a fantasy. I never distinguished between fantasy and reality. I made my fantasy reality for over 60 years.

  

  Lou Thesz
  • Reality
  • Professional
  • Ability

• As they say, anything can happen in the World Wrestling Federation.

  

  Jerry Lawler
  • World
  • Wrestling

• As good as I was at wrestling, I never thought I was any good.

  

  Jake Roberts
  • Good
  • Wrestling

• We are wrestling well. We have a few starters out right now, but once we get our lineup where it should be we should be rolling.

  

  Eric Johnson
  • Wrestling
  • Rolling

• I've never been a politics guy in wrestling; I'm just someone who came out and worked.

  

  Bobby Lashley
  • Politics
  • Wrestling
  • Worked

• I commend you on all you've done for PETA, wrestling the one-eyed trouser snake with your bare hands, gently cuddling it in your arms, and nurturing it back to health.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Done
  • Funny
  • Humor

• I have never seen a wrestling match or a prize fight, and I don't want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports, I drop him.

  

  Hedy Lamarr
  • Men
  • Fighting
  • Sports

• There's no unemployment insurance if you don't have a job in wrestling. You really have to be committed, to have a love and a passion for the sport, a belief in yourself that you can do it.

  

  Chris Jericho
  • Job
  • Passion
  • Insurance

• There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.

  

  J. G. Holland
  • Great
  • Waiting
  • Achievement

• The most passionate fans are from India, and I hope that I can motivate more Indians to pursue wrestling - or any athletics, for that matter - and become champions.

  

  Jinder Mahal
  • Hope
  • Wrestling

• I love wrestling, and of course WWE is the main stage, but I'm happy to be with TNA.

  

  Bobby Lashley
  • Happy
  • I Love
  • Wrestling

• We laugh at a man who, stepping out of his room at the very minute when the sun is rising, says, “It is my will that the sun shall rise”; or at him who, unable to stop a wheel, says, “I wish it to roll”; or, again, at him who, thrown in a wrestling match, says, “Here I lie, but here I wish to lie.” But, joking apart, do we not act like one of these three persons whenever we use the expression “I wish”?

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Laugh
  • Wrestling
  • Joking

• When I was with WWE before, I was a big guy throwing people around - power moves. Then after that, when I left WWE, I was like, 'I still enjoy professional wrestling,' but some of the smaller guys look up at me and say, 'I don't wanna wrestle him. I don't wanna get thrown around by that guy.'

  

  Bobby Lashley
  • Enjoy
  • Guys
  • Moves

• I had a particular affinity for wrestling, and it did have a lot to do with being small and being combative - and being angry. And when you're small and you don't back down, you get in a lot of fights.

  

  John Irving
  • Small
  • Angry
  • Wrestling

• Wrestling is something I feel really confident in now.

  

  Donald Cerrone
  • Wrestling

• Because of my wrestling background, nothing a director can throw at me on a set can faze me.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Wrestling

• From wrestling, I learned that I was capable of much more than I thought I was.

  

  Eddie Alvarez
  • Wrestling

• I'm good friends with The Rock, and I talk to him all the time. And he says that, even though his movie career has taken off, he misses the instant gratification of wrestling, and the live crowds, and I could see being that way myself.

  

  Trish Stratus
  • Friends
  • Taken
  • Careers

• I can't jump high, so I jump from high places.

  

  Mick Foley
  • Wrestling
  • Places

• All the times they put tag titles on me, Intercontinental titles on me, or the world title on me, the only time I couldn't defend the title was when I had to forfeit the belt when I quit WCW and retired from wrestling forever.

  

  Bret Hart
  • Wrestling
  • Titles
  • Intercontinental

• Wrestling is tough, and it takes hard work - mentally and physically - to do what we do in that ring.

  

  Natalya Neidhart
  • Wrestling
  • Hard Work
  • Ring

• When you're doing something like wrestling - wrestling is one of the toughest and hardest martial arts to learn - but it's still a form of martial arts. It's still controlled.

  

  Kamaru Usman
  • Learn
  • Wrestling
  • Martial Arts

• My whole life, I've been training for something, whether it be baseball or football or wrestling or martial arts.

  

  Chuck Liddell
  • Life
  • Football
  • Training

• I think I had a really hard-working and authentic wrestling style, so people liked the way I was - that I was a 'no-quit' kind of wrestler - and I was very realistic and credible in my style.

  

  Bret Hart
  • Style
  • Wrestling
  • Realistic

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