Top 100 Quotes About Wrestling
#1. I've always loved the showmanship of professional wrestling. While I love making movies, I love that platform, too.
Dwayne Johnson
#2. In my era of wrestling, there were no guaranteed contracts, so it was inherent that you draw the crowd in to make money.
Jesse Ventura
#3. Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.
Lawrence Dale Bell
#4. 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.
Meg Cabot
#5. The only reason Jake 'The Snake' Roberts doesn't drink and drive anymore is because he is afraid he might hit a bump and spill his drink.
Jerry Lawler
#6. Wrestling is a fraternity, and the boys will work their butts off for you as long as you respect them and don't lie. You can't anyone walk all over you or everybody will walk all over you.
Randy Savage
#7. Due to the injuries that I will have for the rest of my life, it is physically impossible for me to consider any career in wrestling.
Brian Bosworth
#8. He strengthened his body to keep up with his mind. He began lifting weights, practicing judo, and wrestling. One day after school, a bully tried to pick on Carmack's neighbor, only to become a victim of Carmack's judo skills.
David Kushner
#9. Satan was seen buying a cafe au lait of Friday the thirteenth in the year of the dog. He was wearing a Mexican wrestling mask and a monocle on a gold chain the color of the sun. The lights of the casino filled his good eye. Our days are numbered, our weeks are fading away.
Michael Bible
#10. Picking out Vince Russo's faults could be a full-time job for somebody.
Jim Cornette
#11. In wrestling, my mustache made me look more like a villain. A good mustache can give you the look of the devil.
Jesse Ventura
#12. Aww, whats the problem, gertrude? You mean to tell me that you can't walk into a bar with a $100 bill on your forehead and walk with anything, either male or female?
Roddy Piper
#13. Without organization and leadership toward a realistic goal, there is no chance of realizing more than a small percentage of your potential.
John Wooden
#14. I've been chastised for going into mixed martial arts and backing out. But the reason I backed out was the terms - they wanted me ready to fight in four weeks, but you've got to be out of your mind. So I decided to go back to my roots, back to wrestling.
Kurt Angle
#15. My New Obsession ... is YOUR DESTRUCTION!!
Mickie James
#16. He's as strong as an ox ... and ALMOST as smart!
Roddy Piper
#17. You know, Alundra Blayze, with her looks could star in TV westerns ... if she had two more legs.
Jerry Lawler
#18. I WAS YOUNG!! I WAS STUPID.. YOU TOLD ME GIRLS BOUGHT THAT MAGAZINE!!
Shawn Michaels
#19. I owe a lot to my dad, just for having provided the wrestling business for us to get into.
Owen Hart
#22. There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.
J.G. Holland
#23. Day baseball is now dead for all practical purposes. Sooner or later, the game will be played in its entirety at night, and as I've said before, then baseball will be squarely in the amusement, the entertainment business along with wrestling, midget auto racing and the trotting tracks.
Larry MacPhail
#24. Yeah what were you doing at Wrestlemania? Ohhhh yeeeeah I'd like to know. You weren't there to gloat were you? No I guess you weren't.
Randy Savage
#25. He has a calsium deposit on the medulla oblongota of his brain, but he is a brilliant man. This man has a BA, an MA from Havard, and a PhD from Oxford. He's a brilliant man I tell you, Mean Gene.
Lou Albano
#26. Our attitude is the primary force that will determine whether we succeed or fail.
John C. Maxwell
#27. Several witnesses describe seeing an altercation in the car between Mr. Brown and Officer Wilson. It was described as wrestling, tug-of-war. Several other witnesses described Mr. Brown as punching Officer Wilson while Mr. Brown was partially inside the vehicle.
Robert P. McCulloch
#28. As I go clowning my sentimental way into eternity, wrestling with all my problems of estrangement and communion, sincerity and simulation, ambition and acquiescence, I shuttle between worrying whether I matter at all and whether anything else matters but me.
Stephen Fry
#29. Kick him when he's down, he's easier to reach.
Scott Hall
#31. My favorite thing about 'Saturday Night's Main Event,' it was that one time where I could stay up late with my dad and four brothers, and we would all beat the tar out of each other while the show was on, and it was all okay because my dad was a wrestling fan.
John Cena
#32. The best there is, the best there was, and the best there ever will be
Bret Hart
#33. Go figure a crazy, mixed-up country where ballet outsells boxing. I wouldn't be surprised if their wrestling was on the level.
Bob Hope
#34. If I play my cards right, I could bring network wrestling back to TV. Unfortunately, to most people, wrestling is a laughingstock. But fortunately, I'm reaching people who otherwise wouldn't watch it.
Andy Kaufman
#36. OSHA had come in and looked at the channel 5 studios and it sort of had something to do with wrestling, but they found that there were some safety concerns that had to be addressed.
Jerry Lawler
#37. They look like to carp going after the same piece of corn.
Jesse Ventura
#38. My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
Dan Gable
#39. 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.
Mike Birbiglia
#40. The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it.
Hunter S. Thompson
#41. I became a wrestling fan in college. So, I was more of a wrestling fan as an adult than when I was a little kid.
Judah Friedlander
#42. When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.
Neal Stephenson
#43. I am The Game and I am that damn good!
Triple H
#44. 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.
Aaron Patzer
#45. Personnel determines the potential of the team. Vision determines the direction of the team. Work ethic determines the preparation of the team. Leadership determines the success of the team.
John C. Maxwell
#46. Love leads us to write poetry because love improves our hearing; like prayer, poetry is every bit as much about listening as it is about speaking. To 'get' the poem is to hear the eloquence of the silence that it calls forth through its manifestation of love.
David Patterson
#47. Writing is hard. I learned how to work hard from wrestling, not English courses.
John Irving
#48. My father-in-law and I always had great interest in Indian sport. At the Athens Olympics, watching the wrestling event, we started discussing the state of Indian sport - inadequate representation, lack of satisfactory results etc. We thought we should do something about it.
Amit Bhatia
#49. I'm delighted to be back in coaching. Our goal is to put Iowa wrestling back on top, and I want to do everything I can to make it happen.
Dan Gable
#50. I'm continually wrestling with the idea that there are certain things in this world that simply don't fit. The idea that I have this longing for beauty and truth, and yet I'm also attracted to things that are very dark the lies that exist within me and outside of me.
Jon Foreman
#52. 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
#54. money was being scrimped to put food on the table rather than blown on a night out at the wrestling.
James Dixon
#55. We're the greatest athletes in the world without a doubt.
Hulk Hogan
#56. This is more dangerous than double dating with Danny Bonaduce on the Kennedy compound.
Paul Heyman
#57. I'm a huge wrestling fan. Wrestlers have so many great qualities that athletes need to have.
Bob Stoops
#58. The more established you are, the less likely you are to do something ridiculous, which is one reason I'm proud to put out a wrestling album. If you stop and you go, 'Well, what if people don't like it?,' if you're already established in what you do, that'll strike fear into your heart.
John Darnielle
#59. I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.
Dan Gable
#60. I'm gonna stick your head so far up your *ss your gonna have to cut holes in your nipples to see!
Dwayne Johnson
#61. Dollars have never been known to produced character, and character will never be produced by money.
Will Keith Kellogg
#62. I grew up in a town with a great wrestling tradition. Then I was a team sport queen in high school; I played softball, volleyball, and soccer. Oh, and I also did ski racing.
Aimee Mullins
#63. This ain't no garden party, brother, thisis wrestling, where only the strongest survive.
Ric Flair
#64. What works for the person you're imitating may not work for you.
Jimmy Connors
#65. I encourage you to find your punk-rock, your lucha-libre, your pro-wrestling
Amy Dumas
#66. Wrestling is an art form. I don't worry about those who don't get it; I worry about satisfying those who do.
Paul Heyman
#67. What does everybody want? HEAD!
Al Snow
#68. If anybody is gonna kill my creation, I'm gonna do it! ME ... and the nWo.
Vince McMahon
#69. I can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and sadomasochism. but I reject the idea that you can't be a deep human being without it or any of them.
Brian Eno
#71. I wasn't a wrestling fan growing up; I knew who Hulk Hogan was and stuff but I didn't watch it. I started watching wrestling about three years before I got involved with WCW.
Stacy Keibler
#72. I'm in professional wrestling, which is what I do for a living. I coordinate stunts. I memorize them.
Kurt Angle
#73. The best work that I am able to do is when I am willing to write about questions I haven't quite figured out, or things I'm really wrestling with, things that keep me up at night.
Stephen Karam
#74. Life is a series of pulls back and forth ... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match ... Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins
Mitch Albom
#75. Amateur wrestling, you can go by instinct. Pro wrestling, you have to memorize, and you have to go by what moves you said you were going to do. Sometimes you have to feel the crowd and do the moves at the right time and know the timing and tell a good story.
Kurt Angle
#76. I think drugs and alcohol aren't a wrestling problem, it's a life problem, it's a people problem.
CM Punk
#77. Salvation now consists of a deep wrestling in our souls with the sinfulness of our hearts, the depth of our depravity, and the desperation of our need for his grace.
David Platt
#78. 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.
Gabriel Iglesias
#79. All the trials and tribulations have paid off. In life, you have setbacks ... When you're in your valley, that's when you're tested the most -not when you're at your peak.
Rashad Evans
#80. And what this ECW is doing is educating you people once again that there IS wrestling, spelt W-R-E-S-T-L-I-N-G, out there.
Terry Funk
#81. You've go to have a heart to be in the WWE, but its got to be black. Just like me.
John Layfield
#82. Sports bars are also a great place for guys to meet other guys
either for sex or for wrestling, whichever feels more right.
Eugene Mirman
#83. 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.
Christian Kane
#84. Honestly, I try to think about when I first got into wrestling, and I remember Wrestle Mania VI being the first time that I watched Wrestle Mania as it happened.
Box Brown
#85. I'm no innovator. If anything I'm a stealer, or borrower. I've stolen or borrowed from more people than you can shake a stick at.
Bear Bryant
#86. I'm just like a giant candy cane, the ladies want to lick me all over.
Raven
#87. ESPN has this problem with sports, it's impossible to fill 24 hours with sports programming so they have to resort to things like poker and arm wrestling tournaments.
Drew Curtis
#88. I am wrestling with the overalls trend. I wore so many pairs in junior high, and no one thought they were cute. Perhaps I'll try them cuffed with a tasteful crop top?
Gillian Jacobs
#89. When you see the Statue of Liberty, you will be in America.
Antonio Russo
#90. If I'd known how many problems I was going to run into before I finished, I can't remember a single project I would have started.
Andy Rooney
#91. All men like to think that they can do it alone, but a real man knows that there no substitute for support , encouragement or a pit crew.
Tim Allen
#92. In Mexico, wrestling is part of the cultural fabric. The guys wear masks and they are real-life superheroes.
Chris Jericho
#93. If all the women in the city fought like that, muggers would take up safer occupations, like wrestling rabid tigers.
J.C. Nelson
#94. Ric Flair is out there crying, his nose is running. He's probably drowning from the size of his nose running.
Roddy Piper
#95. Everybody is looking for instant success, but it doesn't work that way. You build a successful life one day at a time.
Lou Holtz
#97. There's so many documentaries out there right now and everything's exposing wrestling.
Owen Hart
#98. Thats where he had the word "Goodyear" dermabrased off.
Jim Cornette
#99. If you can refine your skills and eliminate your mistakes, you will start winning. That's the price you must pay to be successful in wrestling, and in most aspects of life.
Jay Robinson
#100. Wrestling is very similar to gay sex, but you don't have to wear condoms.
Jack Barakat
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