I come in the ring to feel, check, and see my opponent. Then I understand him and understand the fight.
I never expected that I’d be doing as many jobs as I did. I know everybody says that, but I thought I’d be sat in my pants waiting for someone to ring me. Then maybe within five years I might get something.
We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.
I’m 33 years old now. I really want that ring. I got a taste of it here.
When I first put my hat in the ring, several very tried and true and loyal Democratic activists from our community said, ‘What? She’s not a Democrat. She’s a Republican.’ I took that as a compliment, you know, that people didn’t necessarily know what my ideology might be because I wasn’t driven by that.
I loved all the wrestling going on in the ring – I wouldn’t be into it as much if I didn’t care about that – but I always had an infatuation with the performers and the entertainers.
My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense – on the order of Mike Gibbons.
I used to always like the tag teams because you can do, to me, more entertaining, cooler, crazier stuff when there’s more bodies in the ring.
The wedding ring on my left hand was bought by my grandfather, Samuel Miliband, in Brussels in 1920. I never knew him, as he died when I was one. But his ring was kept by my aunt until it was placed on my finger by my wife Louise 32 years later.
I have lived in other cities but been inside of only one. I once wore all the windows of Chicago and all its doorways on a key ring. Salons, mansions, alleys, courtrooms, depots, factories, hotels, police cells, the lake front, the rooftops and the sidewalks were my haberdashery.
If I had to name a few, I would say people like Sheamus, Kevin Owens, and John Cena are all great guys to be in the ring with.
I had an uncle who took me to the ring in Medellin when I was 15 years old. In school, we had someone who taught us how to bullfight.
That’s why I like the indies: because I like being who I am. I get to be who I am in the ring, on the microphone, everywhere. It’s great. I never have to get out of character because I am Matthew Riddle.
Do I know A.J. Styles and I could have an amazing match? Seth Rollins and I could tear it down and have a classic? Yeah, if it were me at 35, not me at 45. And not me at 45 not having stepped in a ring for eight years.
It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim ‘never say never’ is one of the most important in ethics.
There’s so much more I want to do. I refuse to get to 50 and wait at home for the phone to ring. In Spain, actresses work until they are old. That’s my plan.
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
Steve Corino was a guy I met before I got into Ring of Honor. I got to work with Steve, and he kind of took me under his wing and really helped me.
When you get down to it, wrestling is wrestling, and when you get in the ring and start performing, it’s up to you and the guy you’re in there with to do it and perform it.
I’ve been watching ‘Pawn Stars’ every week for the last year. I like learning about the history behind the items that people bring into the pawnshop. I actually pawned a ring once that a woman sent to me while I was on ‘Jerry Springer.’ It was really gaudy.
‘Heel Turn 2’ is about a person who’s in a match, and he’s playing as though the match were real. But it is real! If you’re standing in the middle of a ring, and you’re playing the villain, and everyone is booing and throwing things at you, that’s real.
Ring up your parents and ring up your kids and tell them that you love them.
When you do RAW or Wrestlemania or a PPV where there’s 10,000 people or more, you don’t necessarily look at the people. The only time there’s a realization that there’s that many people is when you walk to the ring. Once you get in the ring, your focus is only on the ring, and maybe the front few rows.
I have a beautiful Hellenistic gold and garnet ring – it’s more than 2,200 years old, but it looks very modern.
I didn’t always know, but I always wanted to. I always wanted to be the very best receiver the Cowboys ever had. That was my goal coming in as a rookie and my goal throughout my career: being the best they ever had, going up in the Ring of Honor.
Ali was a legend of our sport. For me as a kid, he inspired me to represent myself like a champion in and out of the ring.
I’m the guy who has everything it takes to be heavyweight champion of the world. It’s not just about being great inside the ring: it’s about being able to do great things outside of the ring. Not everyone has that. I love to be out there with the people.
With me, I come in the ring and start thinking right away. My thought process is just to put a guy down. I’m like a technician and learn to break it all down – from head to toe.
The only purpose of an engagement ring is to show you ‘belong’ to someone, and your man makes bank.
It’s my mother’s engagement ring so I thought it was quite nice because obviously she’s not going to be around to share any of the fun and excitement of it all – this was my way of keeping her close to it all.
When I was in top shape I’d go to the ring and show my conditioning.
Our discussions of the economy may sometimes ring in the ears of the public with more certainty than is appropriate.
We’re not perfect; no one’s perfect. You know how many people have been injured in the ring? But for some reason, I was, like, showcased in such a way of, like, this evil person and ‘Look what she’s done,’ and I got bullied really bad.
There was no way I could get pregnant and continue to work in the ring and go on the road.
What I have now are good problems of trying to decide and what I really want to do is good work next. My phone’s ringing a lot more and I’ve got nine lines so when it doesn’t ring, it’s very frustrating.
I did the one concert, and I was not bitten by the conducting bug, and I thought I was done, but then the phone started to ring, and gradually, over time, I started conducting more and more. Now a third of my performances are with orchestras.
Super-success is not for everyone, and you will endure weeks and months and years of hard work, obstacles, failures, victories, pain, and any manner of ‘negative’ experiences to reap the rewards of success, drink from the golden goblet, own the brass ring.
Drums all have their own particulars – each drum has a place where they sound the best – where they ring out and resonate the best, and the head surface isn’t too loose or too tight, mainly so you get a good rebound off of the head.
When you go out there, and you’re in the ring, honestly, half the time you forget what city you’re even in because you’re so focused on what you’re doing and the task at hand.
There’s not as many passive wrestling fans as people would think. There are a lot of fans who just can’t get enough, and they’re almost more interested in what’s going on behind the scenes and the business of wrestling then they are, necessarily, of what’s going on inside of the ring.
When ‘The Ring’ came out, it destroyed me for an entire week. I just couldn’t deal with how terrifying that film was.
The cage is bigger than the ring, and it’s a little bit different.
Boxing is a buzz, but I went into it to make a living. I wasn’t going to go into the ring and get punched in the head for the fun of it.
When I was younger, I actually stepped foot in a ring for the first time at 8 years old because of my dad.
I think ‘Rheingold’ has symbolic meaning of what happens in the world when you’re running after the Rhine gold, after the gold. It doesn’t end very well. It’s kind of a reminder of the values of life, and I think ‘The Ring,’ in a way, is kind of a prediction of Wagner of what would happen in the world.
For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.
Nothing ever stops me smiling, apart from getting beat in the ring.
Many people focus on my power and talk about my power, but I have many more qualities in the ring. I like to surprise everyone.
I don’t have a problem with dives out of the ring, but there are a lot of these guys who don’t have anything to fall back on, and they’re not making any money doing it. A lot of these guys go out there, and they’re gonna break their necks at 23 years old doing things they shouldn’t be doing.
When you enter a room, you have to kiss his ring. I don’t mind, but he has it in his back pocket.
Bumps often require giving yourself completely to the talent you’re in the ring with, and that’s what makes wrestling such a performance art that is different from every other.
We got in the ring and wrestled almost every night and didn’t have many days off… The only thing I knew for certain when I got in the ring was exactly how I went in. We told a story and the match was the story.
I made the final decision to become a professional wrestler because I was able to look at Sting and what he was able to do inside and outside the ring.
It is evident that the grip of ‘The Return of the King’ on Mr. Jackson is not unlike the grasp the One Ring exerts over Frodo: it’s tough for him to let go, which is why the picture feels as if it has an excess of endings. But he can be forgiven. Why not allow him one last extra bow?
