Top 55 Mark Henry Quotes

Daniel Bryan is a good athlete, but he’s a better entertainer.

I guess I’m a romantic. Call me rough and romantic. Girls like that.

I never in my career did appearances, like where you go and sign autographs, and you do the comic-cons and all of that stuff, because I wanted, when I stopped wrestling, to go and do that stuff and have it really mean something to somebody, that it hadn’t been watered down.

I’d like to be a tag titleholder, I’d like to be the WWE champion, but more than anything, I want to make guys leaders.

I’ve had matches go 38 minutes. To be able to move for 38 minutes and have somebody’s life in your hands is a difficult thing.

I always see what I did wrong, what I could do better.

I believe in freedom of speech. I believe people have the right to say whatever they want to say. As long as they’re ready to own what they say. Because there’s a price to pay when you say something that’s against the grain that is not correct.

Damien Sandow, he’s a good entertainer. He keeps your attention.

Personally, I had no confines: there were no bounds, no boundaries that I felt when I got in the ring.

The true measure of strength is through a squat and deadlift.

Me and Sheamus have a natural chemistry.

The Rock moved in with me at my apartment, and we trained together after that.

Black culture – we dance and sing. We’re entertainers. James Brown said it best: the things we are make people want to be like us.

I’ve had five surgeries that could have ended most people’s careers. But because of the fact that I’m resilient and have a lot of pride, I refused to let myself go out except on my terms. An injury is not going to take me out.

Indian wrestlers definitely have a place in the industry.

People say, ‘Oh Mark, you’re a big softie, and you burst into tears so easily.’

I’m more on the bigger side, so people don’t think I have speed. I’m not the fastest guy, but I guarantee I’m not the slowest.

It was an unbelievable experience to be in the ring with Jerry Lawler, one of the biggest wrestlers of all time.

Wrestling isn’t like ballet; it’s not about practicing a routine. You need to focus. You need to concentrate. You need to know your craft.

I like to play around a lot. I would always flirt with the girls in the office and everybody just hanging around, sweet talk.

Around 2015, I started to see my skills diminish. It happens to everybody. Father Time is undefeated. He is gonna win every time, and I saw him catching me.

I didn’t know my own strength. I wasn’t a bully or anything, but I’d be out playing and end up hurting someone. So I had to sit out or play with older kids.

The only thing better than winning a gold medal is going to Heaven.

Kids – young men find it uncool to be a dad, I think. It’s very cool to me… I love being at home with my kids.

Oh, man. I think if anybody deserves to be inducted into the Hall of Pain, it’s Donald Trump.

At one point, I remember throwing Jerry Lawler so hard that he didn’t touch either rope. He just went straight through and hit the barricade.

I was the first WWE developmental talent. When I moved to Connecticut to start training, I had no idea what wrestling was other than what I saw as a fan.

Ribbing is a part of wrestling. That’s the way they show a fondness for you – they play practical jokes on you. They put your wrestling gear in plastic bags and throw it in the shower. Just stupid stuff.

Daniel Bryan is one of my favorite wrestlers – as a talent, as an entertainer, the way our fans love and revere him. There’s never been a match he and I have been in where it was bad.

I have a good sense of humor. I’m not Martin Lawrence by any means. I’m a little too country to be Chris Rock. But I fancy myself as being somebody with a good sense of humor.

John Cena has granted more wishes than anybody in history. He goes the extra mile.

A lot of athletes are stuck on themselves and don’t want to socialize and that kind of thing. When I see that, I hate it.

I’ve always been a big guy. I weighed 220 pounds in the 5th grade.

I want to be known as a great dad more than anything.

I wasn’t always 6′ 4” and 400 pounds.

Oh, I was a big Tony Atlas fan. I think I tried to throw my first dropkick because of Tony – and almost broke my shoulder.

Oh my God, if you’re talking terrible theme songs, you have to mention Matt Hardy. I can’t understand what they’re even saying. There’s a point in Matt Hardy’s song where it sounds like they say ‘I want to meet the cheese.’ I’m always like, ‘Meet the cheese?’ Just goofy stuff.

I love fashion. Actually, funny story, I used to give the ‘Esquire Big Black Book’ to young wrestlers when they would join the WWE, because they needed to know how to dress.

Learn how to humble yourself, and be able to take advice and not feel like you know everything.

I was an unusually big kid for my age and did not know how to express myself after being targeted as the odd one out. I thus landed myself in trouble for reacting aggressively. But with time, I succeeded as an athlete and people started respecting me.

Leo Burke was an unbelievable trainer. Him and Tom Prichard. Tom Prichard was not a big guy. And I learned a lot from him.

When somebody says I can’t do something, it motivates me to do it.

I may be one of the very few people on earth that have won a championship in everything they’ve ever done.

Being 19 years old and making the Olympic team on my last lift. I went 6-for-6 and had a perfect Olympic trial. Making the team and being one of the youngest to ever go to the Olympics was pretty special.

I hate drugs. I drank a beer once and threw up.

I want to go out in dramatic fashion. Win, lose, or draw, I want to have a retirement match, and a lot of guys have done it.

My kids are jaded, spoiled, entitled as hell.

I’m a firm believer in not leaving people out to dry.

When my mother bought me my first concrete weight set when I was 10, I was hooked. I was doing stuff with the weights that a kid shouldn’t have been doing.

I challenge anybody to go through their career and not have a failure as a talent.

If you’re going to lose to somebody, losing to a guy like Brock Lesnar is not something that people will laugh at. Brock is arguably one of the top ten fighters on Earth.

I don’t want to be the second-strongest man in the United States or the second-strongest man in the world. They don’t get much attention. I definitely want to be No. 1.

I will be the most marketable of anybody to come through weightlifting ever. With my personality and my size, I mean, I can make people buy things, try what I say.

I’m not fat. There’s a difference between being big and being fat.

I had a bunch of people who kinda looked out for me. You know, gave me the words of wisdom.