Quotes About Professional Wrestling

#1. 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

#2. America is the only country where a significant proportion of the population believes that professional wrestling is real but the moon landing was faked.

David Letterman

#3. Believe it or not, I kind of went into professional wrestling so I could get an avenue into acting.

Kurt Angle

#4. You do take a beating in professional wrestling. But I love it.

Dave Bautista

#5. You remember Ernest Angley? TV healer. He'd slap people's foreheads - whap! - and they'd flop over, quivering like fish." She hooted in laughter. "I used to love watching him. It was like professional wrestling for Baptists.

Daryl Gregory

#6. The cutthroat part of it is that professional wrestling has no union. There are a number of people that are taken advantage of on a daily basis.

Bill Goldberg

#7. The closer I watch politics the more it looks like professional wrestling in business suits.

Bosley Gravel

#8. Jesse Ventura took American politics and raised it to the level of professional wrestling.

Argus Hamilton

#9. Why don't they allow professional wrestling at the Olympics? They allow pro basketball players and hockey players. Olympic pro wrestling would be awesome. The team from Mexico could wear those Mr. X masks. The French wrestler could hit his opponent with a baguette. Or perhaps just surrender.

Craig Ferguson

#10. If professional wrestling did not exist, could you come up with this idea? Could you envision the popularity of huge men in tiny bathing suits, pretending to fight?

Jerry Seinfeld

#11. For every little kid who still believes in Santa Claus, there is at least one adult who still believes in professional wrestling.

Doug Larson

#12. Professional wrestling is a lot like cuddling, I thought as I hugged a tree. As far as lumberjacks go, I'm slow, but when the tree finally falls for me, it falls hard.

Jarod Kintz

#13. Professional wrestling is in my blood. I may have second guessed it in the past, but I know it now.

Brock Lesnar

#14. Most people aren't familiar enough with what actually goes on in professional wrestling to know just how badly women are treated in WWE narratives.

Jackson Katz

#15. I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed.

Frank Deford

#16. I'm in professional wrestling, which is what I do for a living. I coordinate stunts. I memorize them.

Kurt Angle

#17. I've always loved the showmanship of professional wrestling. While I love making movies, I love that platform, too.

Dwayne Johnson

#18. They really liked each other, too. Not like boyfriend and girlfriend, I don't mean. But they both had naturally curly hair, and they both thought professional wrestling was real
which are two pretty strong bonds, when you think about it.

Barbara Park

#19. Whatcha gonna do, when Hulkamania runs wild on you!

Hulk Hogan

#20. People I've never spoken to before come up to me and give me a hug.

Lesley Nicol

#21. Want of pluck shows want of blood.

Virgil

#22. I got no support from USA Wrestling. I was competing against professional Russians that do nothing but wrestle for a living, and I was forced to take a job working for this lowlife loser, John du Pont, who I didn't want in my life. I just wanted the money.

Mark Schultz

#23. Alternate between short films, long form films, with or without stars, small budget or big budget films. Basically a filmmaker needs to be flexible.

Marion Vernoux

#24. The pleasantest part of a man's life is generally that which passes in courtship, provided his passion be sincere, and the party beloved kind with discretion. Love, desire, hope, all the pleasing emotions of the soul, rise in the pursuit.

Joseph Addison

#25. Dreams dawn and fly: friends smile and die, Like spring flowers. Our vaunted life is one long funeral. Men dig graves, with bitter tears, For their dead hopes; and all, Mazed with doubts, and sick with fears, Count the hours.

Matthew Arnold

#26. I was an All-American in wrestling in high school, was National Champion in Chinese kickboxing in 1999 and have spent a lot of time around professional athletes, which includes my eight-plus years as CEO of a sports nutrition company.

Timothy Ferriss

#27. That was my heart and that was my passion. All I ever wanted to do is wrestle. I never wanted to pitch in Game Seven of the World Series, I never wanted to throw the touchdown in the Superbowl, I wanted to wrestle ... Be a professional wrestler.

Tommy Dreamer

#28. Oh, by the way, I've got a message for you from Randy Savage. He wants to kill you. Goodnight, Bill."...
Years later, I found out from Randy's brother, Lanny Poffo, that age was a highly sensitive topic for the 'Macho Man.

Bill Apter

#29. O come all ye faithful ... " I began.
"Joyful and triumphant ... " Liam joined in.
We made it through the first three words of the second verse, and then realised we didn't know any more.
"Liam?"
"Yeah?"
"We could be the two worst singers in the history of the entire world.

Tammy Blackwell

#30. I guess it's now time to crown you "King" of the wrestling magazine glory days...

Bill Apter

#31. The gorillas are not yet sufficiently advanced in evolutionary terms to have discovered the benefits of passports, currency-declaration forms, and official bribery, and therefore tend to wander backward and forward across the border as and when their beastly, primitive whim takes them.

Douglas Adams

#32. You don't have to whisper. No-one can here you.

Sherry D. Ficklin

#33. The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.

John McCain