Wrestled Quotes

#1. I've wrestled with alligators,
I've tussled with a whale.
I done handcuffed lightning
And throw thunder in jail.
You know I'm bad.
just last week, I murdered a rock,
Injured a stone, Hospitalized a brick.
I'm so mean, I make medicine sick.

Muhammad Ali

#2. clothes, wrestled each

Nora Roberts

#3. I've wrestled Kyle O'Reilly all over the world. I know how good he is, our fans know how good he is. A lot of people feel he is the next guy in line to be world champion.

Adam Cole

#4. A recluse, like Hepzibah, usually displays remarkable frankness, and at least temporary affability, on being absolutely cornered, and brought to the point of personal intercourse; like the angel whom Jacob wrestled with, she is ready to bless you when once overcome.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#5. Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy.

Dan Gable

#6. My mind's screaming went unvoiced. Logic grabbed the panic and wrestled it to the ground.

Maria V. Snyder

#7. You wrestled him without any clothes on.'
'That is sports,

C.S. Pacat

#8. A memory flashed back at me, of his willy bobbing about while he wrestled with his briefcase - well dignity and nudity aren't often seen together.

Kate Saunders

#9. Fearlessness at twenty springs from not knowing challenges lie ahead. Fearlessness at fifty comes from having wrestled with life's challenges and learned from them.

Kathleen Turner

#10. But God, who is ableto prevail, wrestled with him, as the Angel did with Jacob, and marked him; marked him for his own.

Izaak Walton

#11. Despite my confidence and self-belief, I've always wrestled with feelings of insecurity. To be honest, I think most people in show business are insecure.

Bobby Davro

#12. 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

#13. There was one time I wrestled two boys and I beat them both! They weighed a lot less than I did and I think they didn't want to hurt a girl, so I don't know if I really won - I'd like to think I did.

Jaimie Alexander

#14. 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

#15. To the contrary: His life hummed with meaning and purpose. But the meaning he wrestled from existence lay beyond the comfortable path: McCandless distrusted the value of things than came easily.

Jon Krakauer

#16. The Bible itself is a book that constantly must be wrestled with and re-interpreted ... Bible interpretation is colored by historical context, the reader's bias and current realities. The more you study the Bible, the more questions it raises. It is not possible to simply do what the Bible says.

Rob Bell

#17. I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, and I'm happy, Doctor, I finally won out over it.

Jimmy Stewart

#18. The last time I kissed someone my heart felt this loneliness I didn't know if I'd ever recover if it was already too late. I just lay in my room and wrestled with the emptiness an emotion so big it had the full force of fate.

Anonymous

#19. The beauty of new media is that no evidence is necessary. The brave blog-troopers have stormed the cockpit of news, and wrestled the joystick of authority away from the seasoned pilots of the press who would land our country at the Facts International Airport.

Stephen Colbert

#20. Even non-commercial media rely on transferring cost to users through licence fees, donations from listeners, viewers, or readers, or grants from companies and foundations that have wrestled their funds from the public in some form of earlier commercial activity.

Robert G. Picard

#21. I've always wrestled with the difference between plot and structure, and after re-reading a lot of writing books I realized I wasn't alone.

Jeff VanderMeer

#22. I conquered a fear of heights and water by bungee jumping from a crane over a lake. And if thats not crazy enough, I also wrestled a greased pig in a mud pit.

Shandi Finnessey

#23. When I wrestled in College, my team was very good.

William Baldwin

#24. Do not believe that others will die, not you ... I have wrestled with Thanatos knee to knee and I know how death is vanquished. Man's immortality is not to live forever; for that wish is born of fear. Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.

Mary Renault

#25. It was bewildering, the way that reality could be overtaken, wrestled down, and murdered by the sheer weight of possibility.

Jennifer DuBois

#26. Let's be honest, the fact that Michael [Gove] announced very late in the process this morning that he was going to put his name forward, showed how much he had wrestled with this.

Nicky Morgan

#27. Di wrestled with her knitting as if it were Fate, and she were paying off the grudge she owed

Louisa May Alcott

#28. Training has always been a hobby, and my whole life has revolved around training. It's something I truly love doing. I wanna do what I wanna do and this is something I wrestled with, because I have to make many sacrifices to do what I wanna do.

Ronnie Coleman

#29. My soul hath wrestled in it. . . . My belly was troubled in seeking it; therefore shall I possess a good possession.4

San Juan De La Cruz

#30. Stop it!" Chas shrieked, stomping her foot. "I will not have my boyfriend fighting if it's not over me! Stop it!"
"Let's say it's over you!" Tom grunted as he and Coalhouse wrestled with one another. "If he thinks he's gonna finally get a girl, he might grow balls enough to beat me!

Lia Habel

#31. Might it be that the voice of truth can come from the suffering soul who has wrestled with God over mysteries and paradoxes? Might the voice of truth be the one that in wisdom and humility says, "I don't know"?

Wendy Vanderwal-Gritter

#32. When I was training, I trained with my younger brother Brady. I would wrestle some of my friends, who I had grown up with, which showed me some moves, but it was never a full on match. When I went to competitions, there were other girls, so I always wrestled girls.

Jaimie Alexander

#33. No one, to my knowledge, has figured out the secret to love. We love imperfectly, Tyler. We all do. Even Jesus wrestled with that. But I think - I think the ability to receive love is as important as the ability to give it. It's one and the same really.

Elizabeth Strout

#34. Shakespeare's felicity is so often taught
it is easy to overlook how taut
the sinews in his neck must
have been when he grasped his pen, or the musk
that exuded from the fat of his chin
below a somewhat chthonic grin
life wrestled death on his desk when he composed.

B.J. Ward

#35. I wrestled with my Catholicism for a long time. It took a long time to escape. It began with a sense that it was repressive, stern, judgmental. It was passionate, but it was terrifying. There were individual priests and nuns who were helpful, but the religion was cold.

David Rabe

#36. The only one among them who wrestled a bit with their role - as the guys who had made a fortune betting against their own society - was Vincent Daniel. "Vinny, being from Queens, needs to see the dark side of everything," said Eisman. To

Michael Lewis

#37. One of the things that doesn't come up as much as it should, especially in literary fiction, is this idea of faith and God ... I feel like those are things that should be wrestled with ... because they are such an integral part of our community on every level.

Victor LaValle

#38. Nicholas wrestled a grocery cart free from the queue and pushed it into the produce section at Publix. "They make really good subs here," I said.

Ann Kidd Taylor

#39. Doctor I've wrestled with reality for 40 years and I'm happy to say that I've finally won out over it.

Mary Chase

#40. Will wrestled with his conscience, grappled it to the ground and sat on it until he couldn't hear a squeak out of it.

Nick Hornby

#41. We had reached the foot of Sable's hill. Howell wrestled his car up the climbing curves. The tires shuddered and screeched like lost souls under punishment.

Ross Macdonald

#42. Once you've wrestled, everything in life is easy.

Dan Gable

#43. She could see the hurt in his eyes, and for a moment she wrestled the urge to call Maia a number of unprintable names.

Cassandra Clare

#44. He wrestled his focus back to his present dilemma. The two of them standing in a cheap hotel room with nothing to do besides the obvious things a man and woman could do in a room with not much more than bed in it.

Cat Johnson

#45. Every joy that life gives must be earned ere it be secured; and how hardly earned, those only know who have wrestled for great prizes. The heart's blood must gem with red beads the brow of the combatant, before the wreath of victory rustles over it.

Charlotte Bronte

#46. Was it not his Self, his small, fearful and proud Self, with which he had wrestled for so many years, but which had always conquered him again, which appeared each time again and again, which robbed him of happiness and filled him with fear?

Hermann Hesse

#47. This book carries the urgency of racing against time, of having important things to say. Paul confronted death - examined it, wrestled with it, accepted it - as a physician and a patient. He wanted to help people understand death and face their mortality.

Paul Kalanithi

#48. Torn between fear and something that resembled love, she wrestled with questions she never dreamed she would face: How could she leave? Then again, how could she stay?

Jodi Picoult

#49. Throughout my career, Ive wrestled a lot of countries.

Scott Steiner

#50. While it's a fact that a voice begins with natural talent, any talent must be nurtured, cajoled, wrestled with pampered, challenged, and, at every turn, examined.

Renee Fleming

#51. Wriggling around, two fingers deep in my back end like some teenage boy unsure what he should be tugging at inside his girlfriend's nether region I wrestled a fifty free.

David Louden

#52. I wrestled futilely, then relaxed as a vine wrapped three times around my throat and squeezed.
Right," I choked out, and shut my eyes. "I'll wait here, then.

Rachel Caine

#53. I once wrestled with an angel. He won, but I learned a few things.

Arturo Perez-Reverte

#54. Daniel Boone, who not only wrestled bears but tried to date their sisters, described corners of the southern Appalachians as so wild and horrid that it is impossible to behold them without terror.

Bill Bryson

#55. In high school and college all my friends and my brother wrestled.

Verne Troyer

#56. Now I've wrestled alotta countries!

Scott Steiner

#57. I believe that doubts, honestly expressed and wrestled with, produce a faith that is stronger and more intimate than doubts suppressed under the veneer of faith.

Sheila Walsh

#58. When I wrestled, I would set aside the time to wrestle, so that in my mind it didn't interfere with my study time. That helped me psychologically. When I'm wrestling, I'm not studying the universe. And when I'm studying the universe, I'm not wrestling.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#59. Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've wrestled with my whole life. I think it's a journey worth taking, really finding out who you are and what you do well.

Candace Bushnell

#60. In the end, Edwards wrestled with slavery, defending the institution within the colonies but also calling for the end of the Atlantic slave trade.

Richard A. Bailey

#61. I open up a paper clip and scratch it across the inside of my left wrist. Pitiful. If a suicide attempt is a cry for help, then what is this? A whimper, a peep? I draw little windowcracks of blood, etching line after line until it stops hurting. It looks like I arm-wrestled a rosebush.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#62. I think humans have always wrestled with the Divine Idea - an idea that unites and separates, creates and destroys, consoles and terrifies. Throughout human history, it is an idea that seems sometimes to have caused whole populations to rise up and slaughter one another.

Robert Winston

#63. I actually wrestled in high school. I was only in one match, and I lost ... my virginity.

Bo Burnham

#64. I'm a very physical person. I'm very tactile. I wrestled in college, so a lot of my communication with the world comes through physicality - what I take in and what I put out there.

Gbenga Akinnagbe

#65. I played football. I wrestled. Those were team sports and I played for the school. When I was younger, I played kick the can and stuff like that. I loved that.

Vince Vaughn

#66. What is my calling? What am I supposed to do? I think running for office, public office, can be a divine calling. I mean, I've wrestled with that very question myself.

Jim Wallis

#67. No!" I wrestled with the covers as tears fell unchecked down my cheeks. The night terror had seemed all too real. The stinging slap echoed on my skin and I pressed a palm to my tender face. annoyed at my weakness I bundled myself in blankets and padded barefoot to the deck.

Freedom Matthews

#68. I have arm-wrestled here and there ... guys seem to want to test my strength.

Shania Twain

#69. OF course they did,' she snapped back. 'According to them, you single-handedly won a dozen battles, restored the Spanish throne, and infiltrated Napoleon's inner circle, after which you rode an elephant, wrestled a crocodile, and swam the Straits of Gibraltar.

Eloisa James

#70. There are so many things that have evolved since I wrestled. They don't have periods anymore. They have rounds ... it confuses the younger demographic.

Kurt Angle

#71. I wrestled as a 90-pounder, and I wrestled in the 107-pound class in my first year. I had something inside of me. I could not stand not to compete. And I don't know why ... I don't know what that's all about. But that's deep inside of Doug Harvey.

Doug Harvey

#72. In Judaism faith means wrestling with God as Jacob once wrestled with an angel ...

Jonathan Sacks

#73. I wrestled through many sleepless nights after God became real to me. I can only describe this period of my life as 2 years of mental agony.

C.L. Cagan

#74. Nothing I've done today, including running - twice - and a quick circuit in the gym, has dispelled the anxiety I've wrestled with all day. That power is in the hands of Anastasia Steele. I want her submission.

E.L. James

#75. Amanda wrestled with him briefly, enjoying the sensation of rubbing along his brawny naked body until his erection rose hot and hard between them. "Very primitive," she said throatily, continuing to squirm until he gave a groaning laugh.

Lisa Kleypas

#76. Nobody has wrestled everybody in the business like I have, especially not Bret Hart.

Ric Flair