Top 100 Quotes About Wrestling
#1. Life is like a wrestling match- we struggle to fight but we never know that the only side that wins is the one with great love in it.
Morrie Schwartz.
#2. How's that wrestling match with God going?" Pigpen asks. "From here you look mighty tired.
Katie McGarry
#3. You're wrestling seven days a week for four months straight. It's a great way to learn.
Robert Maillet
#4. At twenty life was like wrestling an octopus. Every moment mattered. At thirty it was a walk in the country. Most of the time your mind was somewhere else. By the time you got to seventy, it was probably like watching snooker on the telly.
Mark Haddon
#5. He was very short in prayer when others were present, but every sentence was like a strong bolt shot up to heaven. I have heard him say that he wearied when others were long in prayer; but, being alone, he spent much time in wrestling and prayer.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#6. For example, the ancient Japanese had onna-zumo (women's wrestling), but as the sports historian Allen Guttmann writes, "The debased motivation for this activity is suggested by the names of the wrestlers: 'Big Boobs,' 'Deep Crevice,' and 'Holder of the Balls.
Jonathan Gottschall
#7. The closer I watch politics the more it looks like professional wrestling in business suits.
Bosley Gravel
#8. I don't know Jiu-Jitsu, I don't know wrestling, all I know is how to fight. Period.
James Toney
#9. The surface below your feet is so special. It is not like a boxing ring, not like a wrestling mat, it's its own thing, and when I am there, I am floating, I am moving with total freedom, I am free. And when you know, when you just know you are going to win, like I do, there is no better feeling.
Conor McGregor
#10. 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.
Robbie Lawler
#11. I think the self is complicated, that at various times we are all various people, and wrestling actually does a lot with that. You have things like heel turns where a person goes from being a good guy to a bad guy.
John Darnielle
#12. I would have to say that Canada definitely produces the best wrestlers; I don't know why. I think Canada is a big wrestling country, and there are a lot of guys who are interested in wrestling in Canada.
Chris Jericho
#13. I'm a huge fan of wrestling, and I would like to see the position of women in the sport continue to improve, so if I can be a part of it, great.
Ronda Rousey
#14. We are Hollywood. We're entertainment, and that's what the World Wrestling Federation is all about.
Vince McMahon
#15. I've been a fan of The Rock ever since he first came to wrestling. Every time I went to school, I talked about The Rock. So when I finally got to meet him I couldn't believe it! When he walked through the door, I went bug-eyed! 'I'm standing next to The Rock, man!' He's huge. He's very nice, though.
Khleo
#16. The antiques in the window were especially cute, wrestling with each other and playfully snapping at each other's tails.
Joseph Fink
#17. I do find myself drawn more to pieces that I feel are wrestling with the way that we're living now, what we're all going through.
Edward Norton
#18. I was more than willing to put aside the Charley Davidson Book of Etiquette and Mud Wrestling if it resulted in earth-shattering orgasms.
Darynda Jones
#19. The housekeeper had been there that afternoon. I could always tell because the sheets on the bed would be tucked in so tight, trying to get them out was like wrestling an alligator.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#20. I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's like wrestling with an old friend, tumbling underneath then coming up for air.
Mark Smith
#21. I grew up wrestling and playing football where, at the end of the game, you have a score and you're either the winner of loser. There's no score in acting, but you qualify your level of success by the people that you work with and the amount of exposure that you have.
Eddie McClintock
#22. When you start out in the wrestling business, you make a lot of mistakes, tripping over your own feet and looking like a fool.
Hulk Hogan
#23. I think voters want somebody who understands their problems. You're right that they don't expect the president to fix everything. When he's wrestling with Congress and Wall Street and the rest of the world, they hope he'll be looking at things from their vantage point.
Gail Collins
#24. Assessing existence while failing to embrace the insights of modern physics would be like wrestling in the dark with an unknown opponent.
Brian Greene
#25. I was so involved in my boy-rhythms that I never came to grips with the fact that I was a girl. I was twelve years old when my mother took me inside and said, "You can't be outside wrestling without a T-shirt on." It was a trauma.
Patti Smith
#26. What fascinates me about writing is wrestling thought into reality and creating a new world that is forever.
Dennis R. Miller
#27. Strength comes from ignoring your critics.
Power comes from mastering your fears.
Fortitude comes from wrestling your opponents.
Superiority comes from overcoming your losses.
Greatness comes from conquering your weaknesses.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#28. Ah, I know," Bridget said. "For sure, you have the sixth sense." Mrs. Glover, wrestling with the plum pudding, snorted her disapproval. She was of the opinion that five senses were too many, let alone adding on another.
Kate Atkinson
#29. My dad is the reason I actually started watching wrestling. My dad was never big into sports; we were all big into sports as kids, and he'd go to our Little League games or whatever and not really know what was going on, because he didn't know about sports, but he knew about wrestling.
John Cena
#30. Customers are wrestling with mission-critical decisions, evaluating solutions that all sound the same, and struggling to achieve the value they expect, when experience has shown them that far too many solutions come packaged with a high degree of risk and a low probability of success.
Jeff Thull
#31. Difficulty is a nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who rocks her foster children roughly, but rocks them in strength and athletic proportion. The mind, grappling with great aims and wrestling with mighty impediments, grows by a certain necessity to the stature of greatness.
Kobe Bryant
#32. Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.
Madeleine L'Engle
#33. Stop protesting the hand you've been dealt! Become partners with your life instead of making it an exhausting wrestling match.
Judith Orloff
#34. It was I who stayed awake wrestling with the shadows on the ceiling and the taunting of the grandfather clock
Nina G. Jones
#35. I think nonviolence and the mediation of conflict by means of respecting civility must be promoted. But being the kind of beings we [peoplep] are - wrestling with greed, and wrestling with fears and security, anxieties, wrestling with hatred that's shot through all of us - wars are here to stay.
Cornel West
#36. Wrestling seemed like something I might be good at, so I stuck with it and gave it a shot. I ended up in a pretty good place. I was very fortunate.
Seth Rollins
#37. If you watch wrestling, you now know the hip-hop culture is being represented with wrestling. For the longest time, the cultures have almost been parallel.
John Cena
#38. Jesse Ventura took American politics and raised it to the level of professional wrestling.
Argus Hamilton
#39. Each culture has its own form of staged combat, evolved from its particular method of street fighting and cleaned up for presentation as a spectacle, e.g. savate, Cornish wrestling, karate, kung-fu.
David Mamet
#40. Wrestling is part of what I do, but far from the only thing.
Chris Jericho
#41. Well, actually, the Second City thing came about because I was taking a few improv classes there. I thought that the improv classes would help with my wrestling career, which it has.
Trish Stratus
#42. As women glide from their twenties to thirties, Shazzer argues, the balance of power subtly shifts. Even the most outrageous minxes lose their nerve, wrestling with the first twinges of existential angst: fears of dying alone and being found three weeks later half-eaten by an Alsatian.
Helen Fielding
#43. Wrestling is pretty DIY. I've been doing it for 12 years, completely on my own. It's like being in a band or running a zine - except that I get to kick people in the face.
CM Punk
#44. 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
#45. The romantic vision promises 'shadowless' relationships, but it is precisely by wrestling with the relationship's shadow, with disillusionment, that deep intimacy is sustained.
Terrence Real
#47. If you're working a fight with let's say John Ruiz and ... anyone and Ruiz goes jab, jab and grab, you better see whose landing the punches before it becomes a wrestling match.
Harold Lederman
#48. I'm so glad you brought that up Jay Lethal as a performer has grown into, I'll say this even though I'm wrestling him this Friday, he's one of my favorite wrestlers in the game right now. He's unreal. He's amazing in the ring. It doesn't matter who he's wresting. He's unreal on the microphone.
Adam Cole
#49. Wrestling's a form of expression, and it expresses vastness.
John Darnielle
#50. Wrestling is such a competitive sport worldwide.
Kurt Angle
#51. Pro wrestling is not fake; it's sports entertainment. We go out there and we perform, and a lot of what we do out there is real, but we're not going to insult anyone's intelligence - there is a predetermined winner. It's just the fans don't know who it is, and that's what makes it so intriguing.
Kurt Angle
#52. I like a women who's got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that's fine.
James Hetfield
#53. 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.
Clay Guida
#54. Wrestling has been a way of life with me day in and day out. I won't get too far away from it. I might walk through the wrestling room once a week. I could go every day if I wanted. But just walk through, make sure it's still there.
Dan Gable
#55. More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.
Dan Gable
#56. Johanna Mason is naked again and oiling her skin down for a wrestling lesson.
Suzanne Collins
#57. The greatest work and art comes from wrestling with the void
Ryan Holiday
#58. Wrestling and boxing is like Ping-Pong and rugby. There's no connection.
Mickey Rourke
#59. [ ... ] But then,
What is not vain, by God, in lives of men?
All is in vain! We play at blind man's buff
Until hard edges break into out path.
Man life's is error. Where, then, is relief?
In shedding tears or wrestling down my grief?
Jan Kochanowski
#60. There is no normal life that is free of pain. It's the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth.
Fred Rogers
#61. I was recognized as being an artist and a storyteller. If Hulk Hogan was the Elvis of wrestling, I was the Robert De Niro.
Bret Hart
#62. Blind loving wrestling touch, sheath'd hooded sharp-tooth'd touch!
Did it make you ache so, leaving me?
Walt Whitman
#63. Artists do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being.
Rollo May
#64. The best ones - Hulk Hogan believes in Hulkamania. It's not a thing he's selling here. It's real. He knows it's real because he goes to the Mall Of America and everybody goes insane, right? Wrestling is real. Those characters are real.
John Darnielle
#65. I'm pretty interested in documentary film, and I'd watch almost anything. At some point, I stumbled upon 'shoot interviews' and found out that wrestlers were now talking openly about things that were going on in wrestling that we as viewers were not privy to. This fascinated me.
Box Brown
#66. For every little kid who still believes in Santa Claus, there is at least one adult who still believes in professional wrestling.
Doug Larson
#67. 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.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#68. Teddy did a muscle pose with his arms before he did the whole bouncing pectoral move with his boobs. "I'm a wrestling champ. International."
It was hard for me not to stare at each boob taking its turn bouncing up and down.
"Oh." My brows lifted along with my mouth. "Impressive.
Tonya Kappes
#69. As they say, anything can happen in the World Wrestling Federation.
Jerry Lawler
#70. I got to have about 15 minutes with Michelle Obama, and that was a big deal because you're like, 'Wow, I'm part of living history.' You know? I definitely think she could take me in an arm wrestling match.
Ross Mathews
#71. There's only 10 guys making big bucks in wrestling, and the rest of them they're making good money, but they're not blowing it away.
George Steele
#72. The two things that scare me most about wrestling fans is that they're allowed to vote and allowed to reproduce.
Bobby Heenan
#73. Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.
Robert Strauss
#74. I think pro wrestling doesn't seem to get a lot of mainstream attention until somebody dies.
CM Punk
#75. Boxing and wrestling are evidence that mankind has not rid itself of all savage behavior.
Muammar Al-Gaddafi
#76. You might be a redneck if ... you bought a VCR so you could tape wrestling while you are at work.
Jeff Foxworthy
#78. ECW stands for Extremely Crappy Wrestling.
Jerry Lawler
#79. Richard Wagner commenting on the music of Ludvig Van Beethoven: He was a Titan, wrestling with the Gods.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
#80. 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.
Marcus Aurelius
#81. The only topic you could not get Andre' to budge on was whether or not wrestling was fake or rehearsed in any way. I don't know if in Andre's case it was real, considering all the severe punishment he experienced, or whether he believed in the wrestler's code of never giving away trade secrets.
Cary Elwes
#82. The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of a stunt pilot's turning barrel rolls, or an inchworm's blind rearing from a stem in search of a route. At its worst, it feels like alligator wrestling, at the level of the sentence.
Annie Dillard
#83. Then as I was wrestling as Terry Boulder. I was on a talk show with Lou Ferrigno, and I was actually bigger than he was! I went back to the dressing room that night and all of the wrestlers go 'Oh my God you're bigger than the hulk on TV' so they started calling me Terry 'The Hulk' Boulder.
Hulk Hogan
#84. Every day one has to earn the name of 'writer' over again, with much wrestling.
Sylvia Plath
#85. I grew up in North Carolina, and I grew up on wrestling.
Ken Jeong
#86. 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.
Jesse Ventura
#87. Wrestling is one of the last truly rebellious American things left.
Billy Corgan
#88. Wrestling pretty much consumes my thoughts. I think for people that are really successful in this business, that's the way it is.
Edge
#89. There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.
Roland Barthes
#90. 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
#91. Wrestling is a team sport, and an individual sport all rolled into one.
William Baldwin
#92. I don't want anything to take away from wrestling.
Daniel Bryan
#93. 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
#94. His system is a combination of ferocious blows, holds and throws, adapted from Japanese bayonet tactics, ju-jitsu, Chinese boxing, Sikh wrestling, French wrestling and Cornish collar-and-elbow wrestling, plus expert knowledge of hip-shooting, knife fighting and use of the Tommy gun and hand grenade.
Giles Milton
#95. You can only wrestle with something for just so long. Then you have to break in one direction or another. Just to end the wrestling. Something has to give.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#97. 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
#98. We fell to wrestling again. We rolled all over the floor, in each other's arms, like two huge helpless children. He was naked and goatish under his robe, and I felt suffocated as he rolled over me. I rolled over him. We rolled over me. They rolled over him. We rolled over us.
Vladimir Nabokov
#99. "Exciting" is a dull world to describe the wrestling business.
Alexander Nderitu
#100. All over the world great writers were dying young: Italo Calvino, Raymond Carver, and now here was Angela wrestling with the Reaper. A fatwa was not the only way to die. There were older types of death sentence that still worked very well.
Salman Rushdie
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