Top 35 Sean Waltman Quotes

You have to know your crowd. And adjust accordingly.

I had a lot of people that were real big fans of mine behind the scenes.

I felt like I always knew my role.

The natural instinct when you get concussed, when you get knocked out, as soon as you come up is to get up and fight and keep going.

I grew up in Tampa, Florida, and St. Pete, Tampa, the Tampa Bay area, and that was the home of Championship Wrestling from Florida with Gordon Solie, Dusty Rhodes, and it was just… I mean, for storylines and angles and promos, it was second to none.

I think I had a lot to do with why there’s even a thing such as 205 Live. In the past, when they started that, they didn’t even acknowledge me. I’ve gotta lie to tell you that that didn’t bother me.

I’ve done things in my career, you know, accomplishments, and being in DX, NWO, the Kliq, all of that.

Nobody is exempt from being respectful to the business and paying homage to the guys drawing money. We all have done it. Steve Austin did it; The Rock did it.

Marty Scurll is fantastic, and I am a big fan of his work.

Lars Sullivan and EC3 are made for the main roster, more so than NXT. Obviously, Lars because he’s just freakish in so many ways. But EC3, I look at him, and I look at his mannerisms, his mic skills: he’s tailor-made for a good push on the main roster.

It was just, I was always contrarian. I was always, you know, ‘We want to do this with you,’ ‘No, I want to do that.’ In so many things, I wanted to do things my way.

People come up to me and pay their respects by telling me how I was a big part of their childhood. I do not take that for granted, not for one second.

For me, I had that reputation as being a guy that did a lot of stuff early on in my career, but to me, at the time I needed to do that in order to be noticed. Eventually, my style evolved and started making it to where every match wasn’t about a dive outside of the ring.

I’m all about people being able to redeem themselves.

Trust me – he will be back. I promise you, at some point CM Punk will be back involved in wrestling.

Wrestling is my life.

I like Vince Russo the person. I love him as a human being.

I was in Mexico for three years.

I’m very grateful for Scott Hall’s willingness to take me under his wing and help me.

I was a buzzsaw out there, high impact, high energy, I was quick.

That first run in WWE, that 1-2-3 Kid run, definitely, that was my underdog cruiserweight thing, and Vince was behind it.

I did a lot of tae kwon do and branched off into other stuff later on, but tae kwon do is great. It was my equalizer. That was how I was able to survive in the land of the giants. Thank God for that.

I think, for me, I should have worked harder on my mic skills, and I should have been a lot easier to deal with, and I would have been pushed a lot better.

Rest in peace, King Kong Bundy.

Once I got my groove in WCW in ’97, I’m pretty proud of the things I did there. By the time I got to WWE for DX, I may not have been as quick, but I was so far more well-rounded and a much more of a ring general.

I wouldn’t mind being a part of that 205 Live brand.

The character of Jim ‘The Anvil’ Neidhart added so much. He was solid in the ring too, really good. His role in the Hart Foundation – he was great. He was a really good, solid power guy that could move in there, too.

My mindset, when it came to wrestling, was more the reasons why I could, not the reasons why I couldn’t, which is how you should look at, like, everything in life.

When I was in WCW, I was definitely like… kind of cutthroat, a little bit.

You can get wider. You can’t get taller unless Herman Munster’s in your shoes.

Talking, being a better talker, wouldn’t have been that hard. It was just, I was just naturally gifted at other things.

Not every time someone gets hit these days with a kick, they don’t necessarily take a flat-back. Maybe less flat-backs add time to a career, but if they miss some of it, it just seems like you’re done.

You hear the word ‘fake’ thrown around wrestling, but it doesn’t get more real when you hear the sound of 20,000 people coming unglued.

My greatest chemistry is with the fans. There is a deep, deep connection.

Creative satisfaction is highly underrated. When you don’t have it, the money doesn’t spend nearly as well.