Top 616 Wrestling Quotes

I think it’s amazing that I finally have this platform with Impact Wrestling to showcase what I feel like I’ve been doing, what I’ve been capable of for so many years.

Yes, Indian wrestling has improved since foreign coaches came in because the skills and techniques they have is new to us.

The CM Punk is No. 1 in the world, bubba. He work hard. He love the wrestling business.

I can’t explain it, but from the first day I stepped into a wrestling ring, I knew that one day I was going to be a big superstar. I knew that one day I would be the NWA World Heavyweight Champion like my hero, Lou Thesz.

I was a fanatic about wrestling when I was a kid.

Those who have not seen wrestling before have probably tuned in to ‘Lucha Underground’ and go, ‘Whoa! This is a TV series turned into wrestling.’

I’ll use wrestling if I need to in fights, but maybe I’ll fight another wrestler, and you’ll find out how good my striking is.

I think the best wrestling always needs to pretend to be real, and Vince Russo’s wrestling is so pathetically far-fetched and phony that I think he does a disservice to his wrestlers and the business.

I was obsessed with it, and then I learned more about professional wrestling and how the beauty that does exist in it is truly an art form.

I think everybody will agree that ‘Torrie Wilson’ is a name that nobody – no true wrestling fan – will ever forget.

To a lot of MMA fighters, pro wrestling is a very popular thing and I’m very thankful for them to try and make the transition into professional wrestling. But then they figure out its not as easy as a lot of people think.

I would love to have gotten into it with Harley Race. He was such a good wrestler and rough and tough. We wrestled at the same time but never each other. And wrestling Sting would have been something I would have enjoyed.

I wanted to be a baseball player, but I became fascinated with wrestling as a teenager.

When I was very first getting into wrestling, the Undertaker was my favorite.

When you, as a fan, go to see a wrestling show, you don’t know what the predetermined outcome is. You take a seat and enjoy the ride – and it’s a hell of a ride.

Everything I’ve done goes back to pro wrestling. Had I not been able to achieve what I did, I guarantee you… my high school jobs were always working in the highway department – driving dump trucks, patching up roads, digging ditches, driving a forklift.

My wrestling and family go together. It’s always been that way, from day one with my mom and dad, my sister, my wife, four daughters, grandsons, son-in-laws.

I was the first Indian to take on and beat the best in professional wrestling, but I certainly don’t want to be the last.

I’m not addicted to wrestling anymore. For a long time, I was.

I have had the greatest wrestling career in the history of pro wrestling.

I was in all the Pay Per Views and all the house shows, and I thought I made a pretty good impact and helped change pro wrestling – not by myself, but definitely, I was a part of it in the Attitude Era. There is no recognition towards me or about me, and I’m kind of disappointed.

I’m an all-around fighter. I do everything. I’ve got wrestling; I’ve got Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and I’ve got striking.

I brought Muhammad Ali to North Korea in 1995. I tried that once. It didn’t work out quite that well for me as it did for Dennis Rodman, but I brought Muhammad Ali to Pyongyang, North Korea, as part of a big wrestling event called the World Peace Festival. It was a two-day event that drew over 350,000 people.

You realize, as time goes on, there is a certain expectation now in 2018 where fans want to see cool, exciting, hard-hitting sports entertainment or hard-hitting pro wrestling, and there are ways to give them that without necessarily putting yourself in the hospital that night or not being able to move the next morning.

We have a lot of wrestling fans out there just looking for a star to cheer for.

Wrestling saved my life.

It’s hard to explain, but it’s a beautiful thing to watch in wrestling when someone loses in the exact perfect way.

It’s easy to be the Mayor of Slamtown in the wrestling ring.

When I first thought about wrestling, I thought about it as this foreign thing that I would have so much trouble accessing, and then, day one of researching it, I was like, ‘Oh, I know what this is! This is theater. This is playing pretend.’ It was really easy to connect to.

I got into wrestling to make some money, see the world, and meet girls.

Wrestling is something I feel really confident in now.

People who like hard-hitting wrestling and action, they’ll like me.

I’d never seen a professional wrestling match. First one I saw, I was in. It was just an accident.

Most of the wrestling happens in the South, so I had to ask myself how I was going to be received as a Jewish boy named Goldberg. Then again, I have never, nor would I ever, hide my Jewish identity.

If I had my career to do over again, I think I would wrestle under my real name, John Hennigan, because if there was some sort of brand test associated with professional wrestling, I would hardcore fail that test because I have so many names, it’s confusing to me, even.

Earlier, professional wrestling happened only abroad, but now the youngsters are getting a good platform here in India as well.

Life is like a wrestling match: a lot of times, things are looking good, and then something happens, and you’re fighting from underneath.

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.

It’s almost like the Monday Night Wars for me all over again. That’s the kind of feeling I get with Reality of Wrestling.

That’s just what I call myself when I DJ: Mexican Wrestling Association.

When anyone talks about lucha libre and that style of wrestling, the first person they think of is Mil Mascaras. The other man the true wrestling fan will think of is El Santo. These were the names that came to me when I was growing up.

I think sports and bodybuilding were the only things that saved me from getting beat up. People are not pleased, for whatever reason, when you can answer all the questions in class. If not for the respect I got from track, cross-country, wrestling and bodybuilding, it would have been a disaster.

Wrestling was the first time I thought, ‘My leg is the thing that functions in this way to do this move, to get from A to B.’ Instead of, like, ‘My body’s purpose is to suck it in so the male showrunner thinks it’s attractive.’

I’ve always loved competing; I’ve always loved working out – and wrestling, of course.

Growing up, I idolized Big Boss Man and Bam Bam Bigelow just because they were big guys who could move and were tough. I felt like they both rode motorcycles. And Bam Bam had his head tattooed. Those are the guys who really got me into wrestling.

Hardcore wrestling like CZW is just nonsense. There’s no story there. You’ve got guys jumping off of houses onto barb wired tables, and that’s it. They don’t know how to work. CZW is trash.

Hopefully, when people watch ‘Lucha Underground’ and WWE, Ring of Honor, New Japan, AAA, and any other promotion out there, they fall in love with pro wrestling. Pro wrestling, as it affects pop culture, is bigger than any one promotion.

I started wrestling at ten. I played a lot of other sports: soccer, football. I really enjoyed skiing. But wrestling just took off for me. It seemed to be the sport I had an affinity for; I liked the individual, combative nature. There’s something special about that. It took me all the places I wanted to go.

I was the first wrestler ever in the history of wrestling to star in a major motion studio picture that became #1 box office of the weekend, and that gave the itch to I don’t know how many wrestlers.

A lot of people think that comedy is sort of a cop out to not wrestling seriously, but I actually would argue that comedy is much more difficult than wrestling seriously because you have to be creative in almost everything that you do if you want the comedy to make sense within the realms of pro wrestling.

When I first went to Japan, I was wrestling under my real name. The Japanese people have a great amount of difficulty with the letters f, r and l. So three out of the six letters in my first name they couldn’t say. It was a bit of a mouthful for those guys.

With the success of the TNA Knockouts, that’s when they started having their girls wrestle a lot more in WWE. I thought, ‘This is a perfect time for me to come in. They care about women’s wrestling.’ Sadly it was just not the case.

I simply could not have done as well in either football or wrestling if I had not taken Energol.

When you get a record attendance for What Culture Pro Wrestling – or just recently with Matt Cross, we did a record attendance for Next Gen in Tennessee. These are various brands. They’re not rinky-dink. They’re small – they’re not WWE – but their soul is there.

I love fighting big guys because I’m fast. I’m not a big, light heavyweight. I can move. I can get inside on them. I’m inside, I’m wrestling with them, and they’re just wrestling, but all the time, I’m chopping; I’m slapping.