Quotes and Sayings about Wrestling
"I used to be fond of Indian arm wrestling."
- Leslie Fiedler
(Related: Wrestling)
"Not only was it that I surprised people by beating Bret Hart, but it was a great match. They still rate it as one of the best wrestling matches of all time."
- Owen Hart
(Related: Time, People, Wrestling)
"There's so many documentaries out there right now and everything's exposing wrestling."
- Owen Hart
(Related: Now, Right, Wrestling)
"It's kind of beating a dead horse if you're talking about going out and saying wrestling's fake, or this or that. People don't want to hear that. They want to hear, they wanted to find an inside story."
- Owen Hart
(Related: People, Saying, Talking, Want, Wrestling)
"I certainly would have regretted not getting into wrestling. It's been very lucrative for me and I've been fortunate to get into it and make money and not do anything stupid where I invested in something that collapsed."
- Owen Hart
(Related: Money, Wrestling)
"I find too often in the wrestling business, you just wrestle, get to the hotel, make your money. Sometimes I have to stop and remind myself to enjoy my life and not just rush through."
- Owen Hart
(Related: Life, Business, Money, Wrestling)
"It's good to go out and entertain these people, and you've got them on the edge of their seat, they're standing up. Then you know that you've done your job, you've entertained them. My way of entertaining them is going out and wrestling. Everyone's got their different ways."
- Owen Hart
(Related: People, Job, Wrestling)
"I owe a lot to my dad, just for having provided the wrestling business for us to get into."
- Owen Hart
(Related: Business, Dad, Wrestling)
"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
(Related: Women, Strength, Wrestling)
"Hopefully I can become the Babe Ruth of the World Wrestling Federation and be the champion at the same time."
- Hulk Hogan
(Related: Time, World, Wrestling)
"After wrestling with myself for six months, I began medical treatment. During that time I started a band with some friends of mine called Jack's Car, but that didn't last."
- Jack Irons
(Related: Medical, Time, Car, Friends, Months, Treatment, Wrestling)
"I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write."
- John Irving
(Related: Age, Discipline, Old, Wrestling)
"One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling."
- William James
(Related: Heart, Enemies, Feeling, Will, Wrestling)
"Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day."
- Roland Joffe
(Related: Education, Life, Culture, Day, Joy, Wrestling)
"Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining."
- Dwayne Johnson
(Related: People, Goal, Comedy, Night, Wrestling)
"There's no drama like wrestling."
- Andy Kaufman
(Related: Drama, Wrestling)
"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
(Related: People, Cards, Network, Play, Right, Wrestling)
"It was only supposed to be on WCW compilation; on that wrestling compilation. And for that I thought it was good. And then we threw it on our record as well."
- Kerry King
(Related: Thought, Wrestling)
"I have never seen a wrestling match or a prize fight, and I don't want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports, I drop him."
- Hedy Lamarr
(Related: Sports, Fight, Man, Want, Wrestling)
"As they say, anything can happen in the World Wrestling Federation."
- Jerry Lawler
(Related: World, Wrestling)
"When I'm in bed with a woman, my favorite move is a wrestling hold called the lip lock."
- Jerry Lawler
(Related: Bed, Favorite, Woman, Wrestling)
"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
(Related: Safety, Wrestling)
"Judging from what looks like the popularity of this classic wrestling show is that the people like what they have grown to know and love here in Memphis."
- Jerry Lawler
(Related: Love, People, Popularity, Wrestling)
"I don't think that McMahon thinks very much about the fact that J.R and I have been successful. I don't think that McMahon thinks the wrestling announcers really have that much to contribute the show."
- Jerry Lawler
(Related: Successful, Fact, Wrestling)
"Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling."
- Madeleine L'Engle
(Related: Creativity, Destruction, Temperament, Wrestling)
"At this point I have no interest in returning to wrestling. I am pursuing my acting career. But I never say never. I enjoyed the three years I was in the wrestling industry."
- Rita Mero
(Related: Acting, Career, Interest, Wrestling, Years)
"Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators."
- Olin Miller
(Related: Living, Wrestling, Writing)
"War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules."
- Ross Perot
(Related: Politics, War, Rules, Wrestling)
"I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets."
- Sting
(Related: American, Football, Wrestling)
"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
(Related: Thought, Career, Help, Wrestling)
"I'm good friends with The Rock, and I talk to him all the time. And he says that, even though his movie career has taken off, he misses the instant gratification of wrestling, and the live crowds, and I could see being that way myself."
- Trish Stratus
(Related: Time, Being, Career, Crowds, Friends, Talk, Wrestling)
"As far as wrestling goes, as long as my body is able to withstand the physical beating, I will keep wrestling."
- Trish Stratus
(Related: Body, Will, Wrestling)
"It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired - you quit when the gorilla is tired."
- Robert Strauss
(Related: Wrestling)
"Wrestling is ballet with violence."
- Jesse Ventura
(Related: Ballet, Violence, Wrestling)
"From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet."
- Jones Very
(Related: Soul, Enemy, Mystery, Wrestling)
"I was dating a guy that was a huge wrestling fan and I'm embarrassed to say it now but I used to make fun of him for watching it."
- Torrie Wilson
(Related: Dating, Fun, Now, Wrestling)