Quotes from Arn Anderson

The inability to allow a talent to do what he feels is going to inhibit his production. Always.

WrestleMania has to have 7 or 8 matches that have value in order to sell that show because people are coming from around the world to see it. When you sell 100,000 tickets, that's not based on one match. There's a lot of interest in a lot of matches.

WrestleMania will never be sold on one match. It just won't. One match will not draw a house these days. It's hard to draw a house at a live event with just a single main event and nothing underneath it.

All I can ever remember from about age eight was I wanted to be a wrestler.

If I was the guy, I believe, that was going to stalk anybody, it certainly wouldn't be in a building full of wrestlers.

Dolph has got to be one of the toughest men to put on a pair of boots.

When you flip flop your personality and your characters so many times back and forth, people can't trust you. They can't trust a word you say on a promo because last week, they loved you. This week, they're saying, 'Shut up!' And it diminishes your credibility, and when you have credibility with the audience, you're halfway there.

I knew the Undertaker from day one when he was with WCW, 'til he moved to the WWF. I used to sit there with my chin on the ground when a guy that size would walk that top rope. It was unbelievable stuff that the guy can do.

Curtis Axel isn't Joe Hennig. That's who he should've been from day one, there are guys that have a legacy in this business. All that they would've had to do to help him from day one was let him be Joe Hennig.

When you lived it for years and years and years and seen different characters just get pummeled and squashed because 'I said so,' it gets mighty damn disturbing and it's such a downer when you're trying to get a guy to perform at the top level for the audience that he's capable of.

The biggest mistake I would tell any young guy in this business is a guy playing a character. If you are you being you and the more you take being you down, the worse it is. You have to take the real you and make it a little louder, colorful and intelligent, it's hard to screw up being you.

I always thought that Bray Wyatt, who had the most creative characters that he came up with it - it was a part of him deep down that lived in him. That's the reason he was able to pull it off. It wasn't him playing a character, it was just a sliver of the real him amped up, and that's always the characters that get over.

Rey never ran over anybody. Rey chopped everybody down a piece at a time and at the end of the night, you bought it because of the way he did it. I think Rey set the standard and opened the door for smaller guys to have a very prominent place in the industry and be incredible in everything they do, and it wasn't about size, it was about quality.

Dustin Rhodes is very mature in this business and he is a very smart man and he came up in a rough way and let me put it to you this way; when you are Dusty Rhodes' kid it is a horrible shadow to step in to, number two you've already got heat because your Dad is the booker and people think you are getting a free ride.

Brock has always been the smartest guy in this business at self promotion, knowing what he's worth, knowing what he wants and what he brings to the table.

We set up finishes for a reason so that you can build drama, work towards that finish. The drama is you don't quite get to hit it and that's why you didn't win that night. Had you hit that particular move, you would've won. Not that you hit it 4 or 5 times and the guy kicked out because guess what, it's no longer a finish.

I was big enough, strong enough, knowledgeable enough, to have a successful career without being the top top guy.

Let's just say, guns are not a part of my everyday thought process or life but I do agree that sometimes you have to protect what's yours.

In the business, you're lucky if when you're done you can look on your hand and count the number of true friends you have on one hand. If you can do that, if you have five friends that you can really call friends, you've had a successful career.

I wasn't going to sell out on top, if I was going to be in the main event with somebody I wasn't going to sell out an 80,000 seat arena, I wasn't going to sell a lot of merchandise. I wasn't that guy that you were going to put as the face of your company.

Bobby Roode looks like a million dollars, great head on his shoulders for the business.

I missed a lot of time with my kids and events with my family.

When I wake up on a Monday morning, it's nice knowing for the next 10-12 days that I don't have to do much of anything if I don't want to.

Being a Horseman isn't something you put on in the morning and take off at night. It's a state of mind. It's excelling to the best of your ability. It's four individuals thinking singularly, acting collectively.