Wrestling Quotes

I never want to hide my wrestling background.

Football is my base; that's where I learned to be tough. I was a strong safety, and that's what I do: I hit people. The mentality is football, the wrestling is precision.

People will respect what wrestling has to offer to this world. It will take educating themselves on more than just guys in there swinging for the fences.

You're speechless sometimes when you think of the support you've had from the first day I've started wrestling to now.

I force myself to care about the music end by wrestling with it for years.

Who dat dere's gunna beat dat team? Who Dat? Who dat?

It is true that Bible prayers in word and print are short, but the praying men of the Bible were with God through many a sweet and holy wrestling hour. They won by few words but long waiting.

Wrestling is one of those things that make me emotional.

I've been wrestling for 15 years so my body hurts.

Kyokoshin I've done most, but I competed in Sports Karate also, that's my style that I come from, and mixed with the wrestling that's how I got the takedowns.

If anybody dared say wrestling was fake, you'd punch 'em. And you never used the word show. If you used the word show it was an insult.

After watching wrestling for 20 years, I thought I had enough confidence to do it. There were no wrestling schools at the time.

When you start out in the wrestling business, you make a lot of mistakes, tripping over your own feet and looking like a fool.

I don't know Jiu-Jitsu, I don't know wrestling, all I know is how to fight. Period.

Want a hot dog, McMahon?

Dusty Rhodes wouldn't win a body building contest for best abs, MacMahon, he'd win for MOST abs.

In my era of wrestling, there were no guaranteed contracts, so it was inherent that you draw the crowd in to make money.

You're lucky if I watch 10 minutes of wrestling a month. Most of the time, I channel surf, and I lose interest after a few minutes.

First of all, I was a wrestling fan when I was young. Even when I figured out what wrestling was, I was still a fan.

Wrestling is a performance. Its entertainment, we [wrestlers] tell stories. We make our fans happy by telling stories but the long and short of it its pretty much the same thing as acting.

I think teenagers bring a lot of intellectual sophistication. They're wrestling with big questions. It's just that, a lot of times they do that separately from adults.

You've go to have a heart to be in the WWE, but its got to be black. Just like me.

I spent most of my time wrestling looking up at the lights.

I collect wrestling figures from overseas, like Japanese wrestling figures and Mexican wrestling figures.

Wrestling became very stale and boring for me, and I wasn't really making any money with it. So I decided to get into fighting.

Stop protesting the hand you've been dealt! Become partners with your life instead of making it an exhausting wrestling match.

I grew up in North Carolina, and I grew up on wrestling.

When I first started training for wrestling I kind of abandoned everything else.

Take a one way trip down to Larry Land!

I used to be fond of Indian arm wrestling.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall.

Something about her suggested that her leisure activities included wrestling large woodland animals and banging bricks together.

It's very painful to love someone who is wrestling with either an addiction or a mental illness because you want the best for them. And it seems so hard, and it's frustrating.

This is not to say that I wasn't completely repulsed. I mean, I wasn't exactly proud that my stepbrother was in there tongue wrestling with the second stupidest person in our class, after himself.

We believe that our RAW team will, basically, exploit Shane's McMahon lack of regular wrestling.

In boxing, you don't know what's going to happen. In wrestling, it's already prearranged.

The people who are the worst at news, who kind of engage in what I call the World Wrestling of news, have kind of set the bar for where news is.

I really believe that professional wrestlers are not protected. I think everybody gets a big kick out of watching them and whether the wrestling is real or not, people love watching it.

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.

I owe a lot to my dad, just for having provided the wrestling business for us to get into.

I see Sandy Barr got himself a $4 haircut...$1 for each side.

I see you have wavey hair....its waveing goodbye!

I see you got a crew cut...and the crew never came back!

It's just like Eddie Sharkey told me along time ago...GET THE MONEY!

I did start wrestling after I moved to Iowa, I think in the seventh grade. It's really a part of the Iowa culture so it's hard not to do it if you like sports.

I kept doing my own thing, working out with weights, wrestling, and doing other spots until I graduated from high school. Then I made a conscious decision to pursue MMA seriously and full time.

Artists do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being.

The last time I saw that crooked stupid smile on your face, I got-a-so mad, but then I realized...that crooked stupid smile is there all the time.

I'm Jerry Lawler, I make fun of women because I have no self-esteem.

Mucken Singh works VERY hard on his brawler's physique!