Top 45 Bret Hart Quotes

I worked hard, and I was always frustrated when wrestlers didn’t want to work as hard.

I think it’s hard to differentiate between your wrestling character and your real character – you kind of end up being both. I’ve always been my wrestling character in and out of the ring and in and out of the dressing room, and I was always really respected in the dressing room by the other wrestlers.

I think the best wrestling always needs to pretend to be real, and Vince Russo’s wrestling is so pathetically far-fetched and phony that I think he does a disservice to his wrestlers and the business.

I love going back to cities where I had a strong fan base – like San Antonio, Minneapolis – those were really good fan bases, like Iowa and Chicago.

Flair was a tricky guy to work with when I worked with Ric. When he was champion, we had much better matches, and the moment the title got switched, we seemed to screw up my match every night.

I love tag team wrestling, and it’s different than all the other matches.

I could only be frustrated right from the day I started in WCW and realized that it was a company run by a bunch of idiots that didn’t have a clue what they were doing.

My father was a man’s man and was always respected for being a straight shooter. My dad always had an amazing sense of calm about him.

I think Daniel Bryan reminds me a lot of my brother, Owen.

People always think I left, and I was living in the States for a long time… But home has always been Calgary.

I know Seth Rollins is a CrossFit guy. I just think back to my days, and I don’t know how I could have done CrossFit training and then wrestled that night.

I was champion, off and on, for quite a few years, and I never missed one title match from an injury. I got hurt lots of times, but the reality is you’ve got so much pinned on you and so much tied onto you, the company and your peers can’t afford for you to get hurt.

I had wrestling in my blood.

Triple H is a bodybuilder nut. He goes after the bodies. He doesn’t care how good – and he can look in the mirror – guys work; he cares how guys look.

I always had a much softer approach to my interviews and promos. I was not so much that wrestler that was yelling at the screen; I was always the one that was talking to my fans.

Undertaker was always a leader in the dressing room, always a man’s man. No one ever doubted what he said because his word was good. He was a guy that set the dressing room standard. If you had an issue or personal problem, you could go to Undertaker and he would help you.

Seth Rollins is one of the hardest-working wrestlers I’ve ever seen.

I tip my hat to the long list of girls that have really taken wrestling up a notch.

I was a high school wrestler. I was city champion.

My relationship with fans is based off the love of my work and my work ethic.

I love when I think about the SummerSlam match against The Undertaker. What a great match, wonderful story. Two wrestlers that had such great respect for one another.

Someone like Bruno Sammartino should never be a jobber on a video game, so and so forth. I think you have to pay respect.

Toronto deserves Rob Ford; they put him in office. Toronto deserves everything it gets.

‘Superstar’ Billy Graham was someone that my dad taught from A to Z, from tying up to submission wrestling. Billy was more of a showman than a wrestler. My dad used to love tying Billy in knots, and Iron Sheik would be watching.

Whenever I discuss my family, I inevitably think of my brother Owen.

Curt Hennig was one of best guys I ever wrestled. If I could’ve come back and wrestled one last match, I wish I could’ve wrestled Curt. He was my favorite guy to wrestle.

If you’ve got the confidence and the work ethic, you can make any dream come true.

I always had trouble being proud of how they were using me in WCW. It was hard for me to be interested in what they were doing, and what they were doing with me was pretty pathetic.

My dad was always genuine with the fans and said, ‘You must appreciate every single one of them,’ and I always did. I always tried to make time for every autograph or every picture. What’s an autograph? It’s the simplest thing in the world.

I always tell people you can’t make peace half way: to make peace with somebody, you have to make peace and bury the hatchet, or you just keep fighting forever.

The safety of my opponent was critical to me.

It’s hard to explain, but it’s a beautiful thing to watch in wrestling when someone loses in the exact perfect way.

Ric Flair is an old nemesis of mine.

Vince Russo knows about as much about wrestling as Eric Bischoff does.

My heart was always dedicated to giving fans around the world the best match possible, and the fans grew with me.

Wrestling fans dictate policy; they really do. What direction each wrestler takes usually revolves around what the fans think of them.

Triple H is a former bodybuilder. He’s all about bodies. He thought that Hulk Hogan was the greatest wrestler in the world. They think Ultimate Warrior was the greatest wrestler in the world because that’s what they’re attracted to, but he’s not really a wrestling fan like I grew up. I was a wrestling fan.

I owe a lot to Roddy Piper.

I don’t have any personal grudge against Vince Russo, but I just know watching the shows that all his shows look the same.

Cesaro is a guy who does a lot of unique stuff and is a great talent. He does a lot of strong-man stuff that is just impressive to watch.

The Undertaker stood up for what was right. He earned everything he got.

I don’t have a good thing to say about Eric Bischoff or anything he ever did. Talk about the Midas touch, he was the opposite.

If I could go back in time, I would have loved to have done more with Triple H. He blossomed into a bigger star after I left. I regret, looking back now, that we didn’t have more matches or better matches or at least one pay-per-view match where we could have really showed our best stuff – or, at least, I did.

I have nothing but respect for John Cena and his work rate. He’s one of the hardest-working wrestlers there ever was. He’s been a great champion, an inspiring role model. It’s not easy being John Cena and carrying all the weight of the company on your back all the time.

The only thing Hulk Hogan ever knew was how to make Hulk Hogan. He couldn’t tell you how to make AJ Styles or Samoa Joe. What’s Hulk Hogan going to tell Samoa Joe? He doesn’t know anything to even tell him; he’s got zero to offer.