Top 100 Wrestler Quotes
#1. When the script for 'The Wrestler' kept coming to me I said, This movie is so good if you put me in the film as a wrestler people are going to say, 'No credibility, Hulk Hogan isn't a good actor,' whatever Hollywood thinks of me.
Hulk Hogan
#2. Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
Walter Darby Bannard
#3. A better wrestler. But not a better citizen, a better person, a better resource in tight places, a better forgiver of faults.
Marcus Aurelius
#4. You've got to stay in pretty good shape to be a pro wrestler, and all the TNA wrestlers get a bit nervous when I wrestle them because they're afraid I'll tire them out, but the Olympics is a whole different level.
Kurt Angle
#5. Of all the things I've done, the first 'Strongman' story was one of the easiest things to write. It was almost fully formed from the get-go. It's almost a 'Dark Knight Returns' riff, except you have a battle-worn Mexican wrestler instead of Batman.
Charles Soule
#6. MY TOUGHEST MATCH; is not on the mat. It's at the dinner table and it's at fast food restaurants. It's hearing about the party I can Never go to. It's realizing being a Great Wrestler isn't a sport, It's a LIFE.
Stephen Neal
#7. The old saying is: 'Time off is a wrestler's worst enemy.'
Ric Flair
#8. Overthrow is a nicely judged word. It suggests a wrestler being flung to the mat. That only happens when you move outside your centre of gravity. Your enemy can't throw you if you have your feet firmly planted. Which
M.R. Carey
#9. When I was younger, I used to wrestle, and I feel that it contributed to my athletic ability because as a wrestler you have to be an all-encompassed athlete. You need stamina, strength, endurance and mental capacity. You also have to learn how to adapt in any situation.
Dhani Jones
#10. These wrestlers aren't organized. They have no union, no pension and no insurance. You meet wrestler after wrestler who sold out Madison Square Garden ten years ago, basically running on fumes today. There's a lot of drama there.
Darren Aronofsky
#11. In a tournament, even though there are team scores, it's calculated and it's a lot more individual. There is more honor to say you're not just better than the opposing schools' wrestler, you're the best wrestler in your weight class. Plus there are lot more awards to win in a tournament.
Bill Vaughan
#12. She watched you wrestle Toby Jameson, who probably weighs two hundred pounds, without even working up a sweat. And she said to herself, wow, that's a good wrestler, he must be an angel.
Cynthia Hand
#13. I'd like to talk to Sean Hannity in a controlled environment and say, 'O.K., you can't interrupt and jump up and down like a professional wrestler.'
Henry Rollins
#14. This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
Plautus
#15. I was always active, always running and working out. I was a wrestler and ran track and, out of interest, started boxing. It's always been a part of me.
T. J. Thyne
#16. There is this great, great wrestler, who never really got an opportunity to be a star, named Len Denton: he was a masked guy called The Grappler. He was one of my favorite guys to ever wrestle, and it was just a tremendous pleasure to step in the ring with him.
Jake Roberts
#17. I am the best wrestler in the world.
CM Punk
#18. As a child, I could beat most kids in sprints, but overall, wrestling was the most natural sport for me. In fact, I was a pretty good high school wrestler. I was unusually quick and strong.
Henry Paulson
#19. I am one for whom dangers are play-
things
One who empties men of their
strength as a nut from its shell
The charms you use I chop up for
relish on my porridge
Beware! I am a deadly mamba
Wrestler of legends
A hive of hornets
A man among men
Nancy Farmer
#20. I grew up reading the newspapers, mostly the sports section. I was a wrestler and would check to see if I was ranked.
Michael Pena
#21. Welcome to Anaheim, California, my fellow broken-down, washed-up wrestler.
Mick Foley
#22. The only memory I have was how the wrestler's balls that were thrust into my face left a saltiness on my lips. At first I assumed it was from the tacos, and then I realised I'd not eaten any today. I
Karl Pilkington
#24. I do things that are very uncharacteristic of a normal workout routine. I hate cardio. Absolutely hate it. I grew up as a wrestler, so it was constant cardio, cardio, cardio.
Mike Vogel
#25. In addition to suffering her husband's scathing portrayal of a shrewish wife and mother, Nana Victoria had to sit not more than two seats away from the transsexual wrestler!)
John Irving
#26. I'm a professional wrestler at heart, and I miss it.
Dave Bautista
#27. It's impossible to measure the type of mental strength and determination that's required to be an elite wrestler.
Joe Rogan
#28. I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
Laura Mennell
#29. It suddenly dawned on me one day, when I was reading in the paper about a woman wrestler, that being a curmudgeon was the last thing in the world that a man can be that a woman cannot be. Women can be irritating
after all, they are women
but they cannot be curmudgeons.
Cleveland Amory
#30. Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly.
Malcolm Gladwell
#31. One of my goals is to have NO wrestler go undefeated.
Jeff Buxton
#32. The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to defeat than the greatest wrestler. He warned them that if you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead.
Jack Weatherford
#33. Fundamentally I am a wrestler and like being on top and I like my grounding and pounding.
Charlie Brenneman
#34. 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
#35. Consider first, man, what the matter is, and what your own nature is able to bear. If you would be a wrestler, consider your shoulders, your back, your thighs; for different persons are made for different things.
Epictetus
#36. Being a 3-time Intercontinental champion doesn't make you a great wrestler, just like Larry King having 9 wives don't make him a great husband.
Jerry Lawler
#37. It's hard to pick out one particular wrestler.
Owen Hart
#38. Mimicque - zombies - can only be killed with an iron or obsidian blade, so don't think you can just act like the wrestler El Santo in the 1970s film El Santo Versus the Mummies of Guanajuato. If a walking undead is after you, run. Let the experts take care of the zombies.
David Bowles
#39. Bad habits are like having a sumo wrestler in the back of your canoe rowing the opposite direction.
J. Loren Norris
#40. I like the wrestling and executing the throws. My dad was a wrestler and he showed me some of those techniques, too.
Paige VanZant
#41. You are a Seminole alligator wrestler. Half naked, with your two bare hands, you hold and fight a sentence's head while its tail tries to knock you over.
Annie Dillard
#42. I just started watching wrestling in 2008, and I've loved it ever since. I told my mom I wanted to become a wrestler.
Rico Rodriguez
#43. Hughes' debut novel, At Dawn, follows a former All-American wrestler, and is there any better metaphor for contemporary American life? We're all wrestling, tussling with the economy, no jobs, doing the best we can. Hughes doesn't flinch from the tough existential questions. He embraces them.
Joshua Mohr
#44. As a face and a heel, Savage saw wrestling the way so many of us viewers did. He saw that every wrestler had an ulterior motive, that everyone was out for himself - that conspiracy theory was the only reasonable lens through which to perceive WWF reality.
David Shoemaker
#45. By the end of the shoot [of Wrestler], my trainer was pushing me up three flights of stairs to my house and holding my arm like I was an old cripple. I had three MRIs in the first two months of working on the film. I felt like it really was over by the time we started shooting the movie.
Mickey Rourke
#46. I was an athlete growing up. I was a wrestler, I played football, so I can take a fall. I actually wanted to be a stuntman when I was kid, so I would practice falling down the stairs. It's just something I like to do.
Chris Pratt
#47. I used to be a session musician before I was a wrestler. I played bass guitar. I was big pals with Lars Ulrich and he asked me if I wanted to play bass with Metallica in their early days but it didn't work out.
Hulk Hogan
#48. Here was a man who sincerely did not mind what people thought of him, and so convention had no hold on him; he was like a wrestler whose body is oiled; you could not get a grip on him; it gave him a freedom which was an outrage.
W. Somerset Maugham
#49. I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn't have to translate.
Maya Angelou
#50. As the pilot of a vessel is tried in the storm; as the wrestler is tried in the ring, the soldier in the battle, and the hero in adversity: so is the Christian tried in temptation.
Saint Basil
#51. 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
#52. I love my dad. He used to be a professional wrestler in Mexico. So it was cool growing up with him, because when he hit us, he didn't really hit us.
Felipe Esparza
#53. Xav tugged Yves off me and handed me the call button. You'll be needing this, Phee, when my irritating little squirt of a brother bothers you again. Just press and the nurses will come running. One of them looks like a pro-wrestler, so she'll make short work of him.
Joss Stirling
#54. The acclaim I'm getting for 'The Wrestler' means everything in the world to me. But it also means I can't take my foot off the gas pedal.
Mickey Rourke
#55. Miami was always a town that was kind to me as a wrestler. It's a great wrestling town, and it's a great town, period. There's so much to do in Miami.
Ric Flair
#57. This is the great evil in wine, it first seizes the feet; it is a cunning wrestler.
[Lat., Magnum hoc vitium vino est,
Pedes captat primum; luctator dolosu est.]
Plautus
#58. The trial seemed to be made for television. It involved an attractive lady wrestler, a wealthy Texas rancher and her architect husband, a bomb, and a murder plot.
Jacob Bembry
#59. I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler.
Socrates
#60. What does it say about our country when people are so desperate for an alternative to our one-party state masquerading as a two-party state that they'll even elect a professional wrestler governor?
Jello Biafra
#61. Before me, my grandfathers, my uncles and my father were all boxers because Native Americans had to box in boarding schools. But in my time, when I grew up in Lawton Oklahoma, we didn't have boxing. I was a wrestler.
George Tahdooahnippah
#62. Brock [Lesnar] is one hell of a wrestler, and he's a big monster.
Bill Goldberg
#63. Rimed and sparkling with sugar, the wrestler lay like some child's flaccid sweetmeat in death, and the dogs licked his eyelids.
Dorothy Dunnett
#64. Right after I did 'The Fountain,' I wanted to go make a documentary or something that was less constructed - more natural. I was searching for a project, and sniffing around, 'The Wrestler' fit right in.
Darren Aronofsky
#65. Annabeth wailed in rage, judo-flipping the monster and dropping on its neck, putting her whole body weight into an elbow strike that would've made any pro wrestler proud.
Rick Riordan
#66. 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
#67. At one time, I wanted to be a WWE wrestler. I still do. I want to go in the ring once and mess around and jump off the ropes and do a Stone Cold stunt.
Rob Gronkowski
#68. Grappling with fate is like meeting an expert wrestler: to escape, you have to accept the fall when you are thrown. The only thing that counts is whether you get back up.
Ming-Dao Deng
#69. I've won not just in MMA but also for the US and let me tell you, the US Greco Roman wrestler is never the guy that's the favorite, not overseas. I'm used to going into hostile countries and competing against the number one guy in their country instead of the number one guy in Chicago.
Joe Warren
#70. When I was growing up, every Mexican boy dreamed of being a famous Lucha Libre wrestler or a Mariachi or a bull fighter.
I dreamt of being all three.
Jose N. Harris
#71. I think people are people and, if their feelings are truthful, they can connect. It doesn't matter if you're an aging, 50-something wrestler at the end of his career, or an ambitious, 20-something ballet dancer.
Darren Aronofsky
#72. I wasn't sure what I was getting into when I signed on to work with a wrestler.
Kelly Hu
#73. Closing in on three hundred pounds, the woman with her in lockup looked like a Sumo wrestler squeezed into a bright, lime-green spandex outfit. She might have been a jogger, but her garish makeup suggested otherwise.
Alex Archer
#74. I'm the world's greatest wrestler, the world's greatest singer, the world's greatest entertainer.
Jeff Jarrett
#75. Flushed with the explosive shit of a sumo wrestler who ate Mexican food.
Hillary Frank
#76. Wine is a cunning wrestler.
Plautus
#77. When I was a kid, I wanted to be either a rock star or a wrestler.
Chris Jericho
#78. They're [zombies] us, you can also have the wrestler zombie, the clown zombie, the Jay Leno zombie and the nun zombie. I've never seen the clown werewolf or vampire. But because zombies are us, at the lowest possible level, they're a lot more versatile for storytelling.
Tom Savini
#79. I'm very arrogant and mean. I'm almost like a bad guy professional wrestler.
Anthony Jeselnik
#80. Hell you're Shawn Michaels! The greatest wrestler of all time!
Ric Flair
#81. The only film I've enjoyed starring a wrestler was Mickey Rourke in 'The Wrestler.'
Dwayne Johnson
#82. Koko B. Ware is a crossword wrestler: he enters the ring vertically, and leaves horizontally.
Jerry Lawler
#83. Although not considered a martial art, boxing is really a martial art. It's a very limited martial art as long as you agree to just box ... but in an actual physical fight against someone who's just a wrestler, you're going to get killed.
Joe Rogan
#84. I was an amateur wrestler, which I loved. It was my passion, but I started really late; I was a junior in high school when I began.
Dave Bautista
#85. I know that stress on me mentally and physically will only help me improve not only as a human being but as a wrestler.
Jordan Burroughs
#86. Zinedine Zidane could be a champion sumo wrestler. He can run like a crab or a gazelle.
Howard Wilkinson
#87. My very favorite wrestler of all time was Andre the Giant. He was sort of like my best friend, believe it or not, and I have a picture in 'People' magazine of me sitting on his lap when I was 8 years old after 'WrestleMania I.'
Stephanie McMahon
#89. I'm tired of this 'we better lay low, or someone will figure out we're different' crap. I mean, it's not like if I win a match people are going to say, who's that kid, he's a really good wrestler, he must be an angel.
Cynthia Hand
#90. Being a wrestler is like walking on the treadmill of life. You get off it and it just keeps going.
Randy Savage
#91. I was a wrestler. I played football, lacrosse. After high school, I got into jujitsu. I boxed my whole adult life.
Frank Grillo
#92. I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't do drugs. I kick people in the face for a living. So, if that's something you're into - if you like watching people get kicked in the face - come see me. I'll probably be your favorite wrestler
CM Punk
#93. I grew up a wrestler; for a long time in Oklahoma I was a wrestler.
Christian Kane
#94. Being a professional wrestler was never one of my goals in life. I always wanted to be some kind of entertainer. I used to want to be a rock singer or a guitar player but I can't sing and I can't play the guitar.
Ric Savage
#95. In Mongolian culture, Khutulun is remembered by the sport in which she so excelled. These days when Mongolian men wrestle, they wear a sort of long-sleeved vest that is open in the front to prove tp their opponents they don't have breasts. It's a tribute to the woman wrestler who was never defeated.
Linda Rodriguez McRobbie
#96. You want to earn respect in your old age. You want to walk into a restaurant and have people say: 'There's Mickey Rourke. He was great in 'The Wrestler.' You don't want them jumping out of windows.
Mickey Rourke
#97. God changed Jacob's name to "Israel," which means "one who wrestles with God." As far as I know, Israel is still the only nation named after a wrestler.
Mark Russell
#98. Scott Hall is a great wrestler, a better friend, but more than anything a very caring human being. Scott never passed a homeless person or someone in need without opening his wallet. This is a guy that has the first two nickels he ever made.
Kevin Nash
#99. In the 27 years I've been doing this I never thought I'd find a better wrestler than me, but I found him. Daniel Bryan.
William Regal
#100. I had strong legs that would have made me a good sumo wrestler and I used that to my advantage, but my home runs were achieved by technique.
Sadaharu Oh
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