Top 60 Mick Foley Quotes

It’s difficult to differentiate between a story that’s humorous and clever and one that actually makes people laugh out loud.

Triple H was one of the main proponents of women’s wrestling.

I see The Rock running in 2020 and being a two-term president. I think he would be great, and I’m joking when I say I think Stephanie McMahon wouldn’t be a fine president of the United States. I think she’s got the leadership qualities. I see those two as potential candidates, and I see Kane as a congressional leader.

I don’t advocate any child following in their parent’s footsteps when their parent’s footsteps are as crooked as mine are.

When people see my show, they may not laugh out loud as they do with some of the classic comedians, but they do enjoy it. I regret that I called it comedy to begin with; I should have called it ‘An Evening With’ or put it down as spoken word. But the emphasis is always on funny stories.

Mother Nature and Father Time have not been happy with me.

I saw James Ellsworth at an independent wrestling show where I was signing autographs, so I took a photo with him and put up a post on Facebook called ‘The night I met James Ellsworth.’ Just by nature of how popular that post was, how many comments there were and likes and shares, I was like, ‘people love this kid.’

By the time I got to WWE, I had a lot more confidence and willingness to speak up.

Edge goes out every night, and not just on pay per views; every night, Edge goes out there with the intention of stealing the show. I know that he felt like his title run had not been given the respect from the company that it deserved, and he was really hell-bent on proving that he belonged as a main event guy.

I remember being really hurt by a relative of a good friend of mine when I mentioned that someone was a great wrestler – she said, ‘What do you mean? How can you be great at wrestling?’ I stopped them and said, ‘Do you think that what I do takes no talent whatsoever?’ She realized how hurtful those words were.

I lived in Alabama for a while during the dying days of the Continental Wrestling Federation. I lived in Montgomery and traveled all over Alabama.

You really can’t go wrong. There’s no bad New York pizza, as far as I know.

You want the match to be like a roller coaster, so you can’t predict it.

I’m glad I had a chance to see great music played up close and live. In a way, that’s what I hope my show does. It’s almost like an acoustic evening with Mick Foley.

Everything that you want Santa to be, he is.

I really enjoy Sarah Silverman’s fearlessness.

When Dee Snider and I get together for breakfast, it’s just two Long Island guys hanging out.

I was told that the fact that I had nothing but good things to say about Judith Regan distinguished me. I enjoyed writing for Judith. I really enjoyed working with Victoria Wilson at Knopf, and Simon & Schuster, they’ve all been great experiences.

I look back on my career and my time as commissioner with great fondness.

I just feel like there’s a better mind-to-pen connection for me than a mind-to-keyboard connection.

President-elect Trump wasn’t my choice, but I’m going to be like Dave Chappelle, and I’m going to give him a chance – but I think there are people out there with legitimate worries.

I was given a chance to try announcing, and it was a job that, in the end, I did not care for very much.

I can still remember the first time I heard Tori Amos. It was the fall of 1993, and I was in the back of a colossal ’79 Lincoln Coupe Mark V, embarking on some otherwise forgettable road trip somewhere in the Deep South.

I’d like to see Dolph Ziggler get involved in a really intense, personal feud that will bring out another side of his personality. Because the personality is there, and the wrestling is there, so I’d like someone to come along and bring out his ugly side.

I am a roller-coaster addict.

I think what limited my role when I was WWE commissioner in 2000 was my reluctance to get back in the ring every now and then.

My goal in wrestling was always to take people on a journey to get a reaction and make people feel like they had seen something special. Thankfully, I get reminded of that every day.

I loved Steve Martin when I was younger, in the ’70s.

I always welcome being part of something positive in WWE.

I think I had four concussions throughout my career that were diagnosed, and I guess that I’ve had seven more. But the fact that three of them came in a four month span when I was making a comeback in 2004 is a little bit scary.

I always felt like the wrestling business was better off with two viable mainstream promotions.

Nakamura, to me, is a main event star.

My mother wanted me to be a writer, which I have ended up taking a long road round to.

There was a time when Vader and I had a main event Pay-Per-View match, back in 1993 at Halloween Havoc, and I firmly thought that it was going to be the biggest match of my career and that everything after would just be going downhill.

The idea of standing five feet away from Norah Jones and listening to her sing Neil Young’s ‘Down By The River’ was just phenomenal. I compare that to what my kids know of at a concert, which is sitting in a stadium and watching a huge screen.

I leave my editor to put the periods and commas in.

Bray Wyatt is one of the most captivating characters to come down the pike in ages.

Everybody has the idea of Santa in their head and in their heart.

I tell people the most important move they can make is not in the ring. It’s taking the time to get to know Mr. McMahon.

I love, for example, ‘Full Frontal with Sam Bee.’ I just love her show.

As a halfway decent college DJ, I had been exposed to some great progressive stuff and always took pride in unearthing musical gems.

I would leave my wife for Whataburger.

I’m still a big wrestling fan. I buy the Pay-Per-Views. I think that gives me the right to speak out just like any other fan.

I find that I get most of the same things I loved about performing in the ring when I do my live shows around the world.

I developed an interest in the history of the Negro leagues to the point where I visited the museum in Kansas City, Mo., twice and made the museum an integral part of my unheralded 2005 coming-of-age baseball novel, ‘Scooter.’

Everything’s relative. I don’t think any new pursuit will be as difficult as trying to break into wrestling 25 years ago.

I did like Test, and he was a guy I kept in touch with for years after we stopped working together.

I cannot look back and say I did everything I wanted to do in TNA.

Political parties could learn a lot from pro wrestling, as we have our passionate base, too, but we don’t necessarily gear our show around them.

I think doing The Improv is a little more ominous than doing a college campus because it was so different than anything I’d done.

The first few songs of the album ‘Little Earthquakes’ were unlike anything I’d ever heard.

On the ‘SmackDown’ side, A.J. Styles really has been phenomenal.

I do some things just to entertain myself, and I figure that part of the audience will be entertained as well.

Maybe I should have taken it easy on the smaller shows especially, but all in all, I have no regrets.

Back in 2004, Vince McMahon basically told me to consider WWE to be my playground, and that I could come and play any time I wanted to.

I can look back now and say, ‘Aw, that was a little dumb taking huge bumps onto concrete before a couple of hundred fans,’ but if it wasn’t for that attitude and that type of work ethic, I never would have gotten to WWE.

I think people know by now that I do my own writing.

Without knocking Impact Wrestling, your contribution was largely limited to what you could do in the TV show. WWE is a bigger company with a bigger infrastructure and a lot more ways to make a contribution.

Probably better than anybody, I realized that I could have easily been one of those guys who was not seen as being a WWE-type guy.

As great a spectacle as WrestleMania is, there’s something to be said for seeing a guy you like telling stories from the heart from 20 feet away.