Top 465 Ring Quotes

Ric Flair, as great was and a hard worker as he was, he just tends to get lost in the ring.

I grew up watching ‘The Ring,’ ‘The Grudge,’ all those scary movies.

I am not into guys who powder-puff punch and run round the ring for 12 rounds. I’m into guys that want to shock the world with devastating power.

For me, marriage is about love, not paperwork. I’ve never been the kid who dreamed of the big white dress, the long veil, the fancy diamond ring.

When I set out to research the story of the Culper Spy Ring, I had no idea where it would take me.

I want a voice. I want people to know who I am and hear my story. I want people to see me get in the ring and give it everything I have, even though I come from a broken home.

Here’s the funny thing: Nothing drives a performance like an audience that gives back and even takes over. ECW was a product that will be remembered as much, if not more, for its audience interaction as for the things that happened in the ring.

I have three tank tops which I wrung terribly, fixed them many times. I had people rip them in the ring and swear at them, and I’d fix them.

Gollum has a weak personality and isn’t able to cope with the power of the ring.

If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.

I used to be the occasional social drinker earlier. But now my intake of alcohol has ceased completely. I want to be fighting fit for the boxing ring.

That’s really what drew me into wrestling. To see my own uncle put on the mask every Friday to go into the ring, and me putting on his masks to play wrestle with him. It was a whole different world when it came down to sports.

When I step in the ring, I bring everything I have.

No fighter wants to risk getting ring rust.

That’s the great thing about a tractor. You can’t really hear the phone ring.

I grew up in the ’70s, when people talked on the phone – and just talked more. I remember the phone was the epicenter of our house. I spent hours every evening as a teenager waiting for the phone to ring and talking to my friends.

My ‘something borrowed’ was a stunning pair of vintage diamond drop earrings from my friend Afshin at Estate Diamond Jewelry in N.Y.C. My ‘something blue’ was my tanzanite right hand ring that I bought for myself in Tanzania after climbing Mt Kilimanjaro.

I find that I’m extremely unattracted to anything that’s humorless. There is writing that is entirely serious, and it doesn’t ring true to me, because I think, oftentimes, life is very, very funny. Even the worst, most humiliating, savage disappointments in retrospect have elements of bleak humor.

We got really close, but it was just too complicated and secretive to shoot at the Met Ball. That would have been the brass ring of ‘Gossip Girl’ episodes.

If you think back to the beginning of the label, we knew we had to strike quickly and aggressively and go for the brass ring.

I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.

It’s a punishment game… only two boxers get in the ring. So when we get in the ring and we’re not angry, then you’re not a real boxer.

If the audience likes and appreciates a move, it gives the wrestlers in a ring a little bit of extra energy, and you can always use that.

I’m not a trash talker, I like to do all my talking with my fists in the ring.

I believe that every fight we’ve had is a big fight, and every fight we’ve had is a fight where I’ve learned a lot of things in the ring, I learn about myself, and it’s sort of pushed me to know where I can go.

The first thing I learned in boxing is to not get hit. That’s the art of boxing. Execute your opponent without getting hit. In sports school, we were putting our hands behind our backs and having to defend ourselves with our shoulders, by rolling, by moving round the ring, moving out feet.

I’m not itching for a fight. But I’m just saying when I see the other guy putting on his boxing gloves and, you know, you’ve got dancing around in the ring, I kind of suspect that maybe a fight’s coming.

I would like to see Jay Lethal and Dalton Castle join the company. Both have made their name in Ring of Honor, and their addition can make WWE a very exciting place.

Deep down inside, when I come to the ring, whether it’s a non-televised event or TV or pay per view, deep down inside, when you hear those ‘R-K-O’ chants or those ‘Orton’ chants, you know, it makes me smile on the inside.

When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.

I had an emerald ring that my mother gave me four or five years before she died. She wore it always, I wore it always, and I have given it to my daughter, and she wears it always. This ring belonged originally to my great, great grandfather. It’s well over 150 years old.

I was just doing my job in the ring and doing my best to make people happy.

Ring Of Honor was so great to me and so great to many young talents where they really give you the ball.

I’m not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.

For me, the only thing I had to look forward to was the ring because my personal life wasn’t doing that great, so my fake life was what I was holding onto.

When I first came in, I won a world championship pretty fast. Then I worked with John Morrison and Daniel Bryan, became King of the Ring, went back to ‘SmackDown,’ became the world champion again, won the Rumble, did a lot of things, went away after an injury.

Fortunately for me, I discovered Ring of Honor. And I saw guys who were much smaller in stature but were putting on these amazing matches that I had never seen in WWE before. So I thought, at the very least, I’d love the chance to be able to wrestle in a company like that someday.

I might spar with him, or I might teach him a few tricks, but even if there was $1 billion or £1m offered, I’d never get in the ring with another Muslim. It’s against my principles.

Every time a fighter steps into the ring, he’s borrowing against his future well-being.

I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O’Brien.

I stretch for a full hour before a fight because I know I’m going to take a lot of punishment in the ring. That’s my secret.

It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor’s finger.

The President doesn’t ring people out of the blue, so you know you’ve done something well.

Mascaras’ physique, in terms of symmetry and size, and his style in the ring really made him stand out. He really did live up to his name ‘The Man of 1,000 Masks.’ I think he had 1,000 masks and more. You would really never see him wear the same outfit twice… He was always very, very colorful.

The similarity between Iron Man and Green Lantern is, unlike Superman or any of the X-Men or Spider-Man, anyone can be Green Lantern or Iron Man. All you need is the ring or the suit.

Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There’s nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring. On the downside, you meet a lot of really bad people in boxing, at all stages of your career.

A lot of people who’ve been athletes have come here and not been able to just pick it up right away. I hate using this example, and I love her to death, but Eva Marie. She was an amazing soccer player and athlete, but coming to WWE and getting in the ring was a whole different ball game for her.

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

I really don’t act. I just live what George and I are doing. It has to make some sort of sense to me, or it won’t ring true. No matter what the script says, there’s no audience and no footlights and no camera for me. There’s no make-believe. It’s for real.

I wrote one book, signed with a good agent, and sat back and waited for the phone to ring. I was sure that the great news would come at any moment. Four books later, I finally got that call.

There’s no reason to go back in the ring and prove anything.

I think something that escapes a lot of people is my entire career… I call myself the ‘often unwanted’ because when I got to Ring of Honor, I was told it was supposed to be one-off deal.

I realize people feel a complex way about me and how I handle things compared to what I do in the ring.

I allow those phones to ring, and I go straight to it. As a result, I get some very, very strange phone calls.

To be a true star, you need to find that balance in between shining the light on the professional wrestling aspect, of being the absolute best in the ring, but also being the best character and finding that balance in between them.

When you’re in the ring, you’re ready to do your thing, but in a relaxed state.

Every time we do a new record, we do the best we can. For us, every record is stepping into the ring with another heavyweight champion.

I’m getting more confident in what I can do in the ring, and that just comes with hard work and training.