There are ties that began when I was just a young kid trying to cut my teeth in the business. I would drive 14 hours to wrestle on a Ring of Honor show that I didn’t even get paid 20 dollars for.
I complained about the gimmicks. All the nonsense and garbage. After a while I just said I would not wrestle with the guys wearing masks, or guys that had some get-up on. It was demeaning. I refuse to go onto the mat against a Christmas tree.
Normally, with girls that I know in the business, they start off managing and then they become a wrestler, or they just stay as a manager who can wrestle, but I was always a wrestler.
When you get older, you have to wrestle with what’s appropriate behavior a little bit more. Am I not acting too old or too young?
The bear is what we all wrestle with. Everybody has their bear in life. It’s about conquering that bear and letting him go.
If you are going to wrestle a bear, try to stay away from all fish oil products, you know. I mean it’s tough for me, because I love to rub myself with salmon oil every day – it’s a great conditioner for the hair, skin.
If I want to wrestle, I should be able to wrestle. If I want to be sexy, I should be allowed to be sexy. If I want to come out wearing a potato sack, I should be allowed to do that too.
I learned a priceless lesson and one that everyone can use today – it’s never the amount of money we have or haven’t; it’s always the amount of fear we have to wrestle with to make it through the day.
I do think being a prissy tomboy helps me in raising a son in general. I wrestle with him, play ball, play in the sandbox with him. As a mom, you get bruises, scrapes on your knee.
A big reason why I signed with WWE in the first place was because my son wanted to see me wrestle in WWE, and he wanted to see me wrestle John Cena.
I’ve had the opportunity to wrestle Daniel Bryan through several phases of his career, except for his time in WWE. What I remember is that he was great the first time I wrestled him, and he kept getting better every match afterward.
Wrestling was you wrestle in college and you become a high school coach. That was it for wrestlers. We just started to realize there is a legitimate career choice we can choose to use all our wrestling skills we spent our entire lives learning. There is something we can do it now, it’s MMA.
When I think of a video game, I think about how I’d love to have Buddy Rogers vs. Ric Flair, something like that, where you can wrestle these Legends against each other from different periods and stuff.
I don’t want to wrestle past 35. There’s just too much physical strain with 250-pound men slamming into each other.
To me, the more the merrier. The more times I can get in that ring and get in front of a crowd and wrestle, the better.
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.
We like Batman – we understand him, we suffer with him. On the other hand, we want to be Superman. But they’re conflicting philosophies. Let’s bring them together in one movie and see how we, as an audience, wrestle with our inner demons.
There’s a couple guys that I’d like to wrestle, but truthfully, I want to wrestle as many guys as I can.
I don’t think people can die on ‘Suits.’ It’s still, at its heart, an aspirational show, and it would be so hard to watch these people wrestle with that.
I felt like I evolved into a great singles wrestler in ECW because of the opportunities to speak and wrestle longer matches.
Botswana has an incredible future if it can wrestle the HIV scenario to the ground.
Real wrestling fans always knew Hogan couldn’t wrestle. And he’s not exactly an intellectual, either… The path he chose is very simple. He wears spandex in the airport. That’s his identification as a man.
I wrestled Roddy quite a few times when he was first coming up in the business. I would go to Canada and wrestle up in that area, and you would be involved with him, too. Piper’s a good guy.
I heard about ‘GLOW,’ but I found out a little too late. I kind of made a run of getting a role training the actresses to show them how to wrestle.
Someone like Brian Cage, he’s a gigantic man who is trying to wrestle like me. That’s his mistake because I clearly hold the top card in someone who is wrestling like Matt Sydal.
I’m not a glory guy or anything like that, but it was such a great pleasure for me to wrestle Bob Backland, the champion at the time. He was such an awesome guy and such a great champion, and it was such a privilege to be able to wrestle him so early on in my WWF career in a title match at Madison Square Garden.
I think the elements to shock the world is either the ability to wrestle and grind somebody out or the ability to knock someone out.
Faulkner is a really important figure in southern literature. I wrestle with him and his legacy every time I sit down and write a piece of fiction.
I’ve gotten to wrestle some of the best women and men in the world – Brian Cage, AR Fox, Scorpio Sky, Tracy Williams, David Starr.
I get to watch Shinsuke Nakamura and Bobby Roode and Tye Dillinger and all these huge names in NXT wrestle on TakeOver. Then I got to wrestle alongside them.
As badly as everybody feels like I’m a sellout for one thing or another, I guess, ultimately, when it came to wrestling, I just wanted to wrestle where I want to wrestle. And something had to be bigger and more important than the money, and for me, it was the time inside that ring.
I can’t wrestle a match without getting my ankles taped because they feel like they’ll shatter on me.
My son wanted to become a wrestler because I was a wrestler. I was his hero. I didn’t want them to wrestle. It was the same reason my dad didn’t want me to wrestle. It’s not the wrestling. It’s the lifestyle that goes with it and the demands it puts on you. It’s not so bad for single guy.
I had a great time in the NFL. To make it in the amount of time that I did was awesome; it’s a dream come true, and hell, it gave me the opportunity to go wrestle.
Every person I wrestle, it’s the biggest match of their career. They’re Buster Douglas. But what’s the honor in being Mike Tyson and beating Buster Douglas? I win and move on. They win, and it’s a game-changer for the rest of their lives.
I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
In the old days wrestling had a certain showmanship. All those people paid their dues. They knew how to wrestle.
I would love to wrestle Scorpio Sky again, that’s one of my most favorite matches.
I used to arm wrestle my roommate in college. Based on that, I’m in pretty good shape.
I do wrestle a really high-risk and high-flying style.
At Wrestlemania, I’d love to wrestle John Cena; I’ve got a lot of issues with that guy.
