Top 50 Diamond Dallas Page Quotes

No matter how bad or negative it gets, I somehow try to find the silver lining.

I can bend over and put my head between my legs, stick my foot over my head, and stand one leg.

People don’t understand that, when I was at WCW, if I wasn’t wrestling that night, I was down at the Power Plant teaching. I was teaching people how to do stuff, but every time you teach someone, you learn more. The more you learn, the more you teach. The more you teach, the better you get.

I’m not going to have anyone tell me what I can do promoting my product.

I knew no one had better ring psychology than Jake Roberts.

At 31, I decided to learn how to read and, at 32, read my first book: Lee Iacocca’s autobiography. Ten years later, with my friend Larry ‘Smokey’ Genta, I wrote my first book, which was my proudest accomplishment.

I had some great matches with ‘Macho Man,’ but the one at Halloween Havoc in 1997 was intense, and Havoc was the perfect venue for a Last Man Standing Match.

I teach people how to breathe; I teach them how to use dynamic resistance, which is what gets your heart rate jacked up.

Bottom line is don’t ever be afraid to fail.

Kevin Dunn is great at what he does.

If WCW and Eric Bischoff hadn’t brought in the cruiserweights, I don’t think the company would have ever gotten to where it was.

In our personal and professional lives, we are constantly hit with one adversity after the other, most of which we have no control over. But the four things we have total control over is how we react, how we adapt, how we breathe, and how we take action.

You’ll never see me in an airport without a DDP YOGA shirt. It says, ‘It Ain’t Your Mama’s Yoga’ on the back and ‘DDP YOGA’ in the front. Every time I walk around, people see the shirt, and it makes them smile.

When Dusty Rhodes passed away, that hit me hard because I couldn’t call him any more. He couldn’t bust my chops. He made a huge difference in my life on so many levels.

If you teach someone your craft, while you’re teaching them, you’re going to learn because you’re going to get better at teaching, which is going to make you better at whatever you’re doing.

All the competitors knew the importance of Halloween Havoc. It was the WCW equivalent to SummerSlam.

I try to keep my mind full of really positive stuff.

I don’t think there is anybody, including Jeff Hardy, who puts their body through as much abuse as A. J. Styles.

I used to run a night club in Fort Myers, Florida called Norma Jean’s Dance Club. That was the hottest spot from Sarasota to Cuba.

Bottom line is, work ethic equals dreams, and I am walking proof that that’s a fact.

When I blew my back out at age 42, I said, ‘Okay, I’ve got to be more concerned about food and health.’

I don’t think I’ll ever be out of wrestling, because I was that kid at 8 years old that dreamed of being a world champion.

From wrestling, I learned what I’m not going to do again.

I’m that guy. The guy that you think I am, I am. Not everybody can say that.

In living life at 90 percent, the formula is life is 10 percent of what happens to you and 90 percent of how you react to it.

One of my favorite things to do when I wasn’t competing was to watch the cruiserweights.

The nWo pursued me for a while. To be perfectly honest, I think WCW management purposely kept me off ‘Nitro’ for a while to keep the nWo from getting to me.

Vince McMahon made me a much better businessman, and I’m super thankful to him.

Without Dusty Rhodes, there is no Diamond Dallas Page. He took me under his wing and believed in me when nobody did – nobody.

I wrote a book called ‘Yoga for Regular Guys.’ We made the title of the book funny, but it was actually super serious. We were trying to get regular guys to do yoga. It just kept developing from there, and the concept eventually turned into DDP YOGA. I am so passionate about it.

In my mind, I always felt like I was worthy. I really felt like, with my career and just the way I did it, it was Hall of Fame-worthy.

The biggest thing I’ve learned, on the inside of my Hall of Fame ring, normally people put their name. I’ve put ‘Work ethic equals results! DDP.’

I’m not scary anymore.

I didn’t develop DDP YOGA for yogis. DDP YOGA is its own animal; if yoga was a bicycle, DDP YOGA would be a Harley.

I will greet every person who comes to my workshops and seminars.

People don’t understand, and I do, is what happens after wrestling. What do you do when people stop chanting your name? For me, I already had that with the nightclub business before wrestling and now with DDP YOGA.

I have a huge respect for yoga today.

You can sit in the chair and do the workout. There’s no other program in the world that is like DDP YOGA.

I challenge anyone to find a better match than me and Goldberg at Havoc ’98. There are few matches that were as physical, exhausting, and psychological as that one.

Wrestling and horror just sort of go together.

Everybody on top has a ton of haters.

One thing ‘The Very Best of WCW ‘Monday Nitro” really captures, which I remember very well about WCW, was how absolutely electric the crowds were.

I let the WWE control my destiny, and it didn’t work out so well.

I was the guy from the Jersey Shore, Springsteen country. We don’t do yoga there. And we made fun of anybody who did.

Everybody has some kind of addiction. It’s about how you get around that addiction. First, you have to break the habit like anything. You have to define the hurdle or the objective.

I would have always liked to have worked with Randy Orton because of the Diamond Cutter and the RKO.

I started wrestling when I was 35, but my career didn’t take off until I was 40.

When you look at me in the beginning of ’96 and at the end of ’96, I’m two different people.

That diamond cutter sign became my moniker.

I don’t need to prove anything in that ring anymore. I’ve done all that.