Wrestling Quotes

Wrestling is ballet with violence.

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.

The cutthroat part of it is that professional wrestling has no union. There are a number of people that are taken advantage of on a daily basis.

Ultimate Warrior had a hell of a gimmick, but wrestling is about so much more than that. You have to be consistent, work main events every night and have matches that people really believe in and want to see.

And you know what - and I don't mean this in tongue in cheek way - but it's like deja vu. When I walked in to WCW they were producing wrestling on a little teeny sound stage at Disney, okay? I'm walking into TNA and they're producing wrestling in a little teeny sound stage at Universal.

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.

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.

Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity 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.

From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet.

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.

After watching wrestling for 20 years, I thought I had enough confidence to do it. There were no wrestling schools at the time.

As they say, anything can happen in the World Wrestling Federation.

I do not think wrestling is going to save the world.

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.

I'm the man that made wrestling famous.

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.

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.

It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired - you quit when the gorilla is tired.

I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets.

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.

Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.

Wrestling needs to be about the art form again. It needs to be about painting a picture and having a really good match.

You can have a wrestling idea, but you need to have these momentum-shifting moves. We had the Hulkamania movement, then it shifted to the beer-drinking, Stone Cold era, we reinvented the business with growing the black beard and becoming the bad guy, what's that next level.

As far as wrestling goes, as long as my body is able to withstand the physical beating, I will keep wrestling.

I owe a lot to my dad, just for having provided the wrestling business for us to get into.

There's so many documentaries out there right now and everything's exposing 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.

Everybody's out there wrestling like a robot.