Quotes from Roddy Piper

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.

The fact that a wrestling program called 'Raw' could be the longest running television show in the history of television, bar nobody - nobody can now say we're not on the map.

Bagpipes is a woodwind instrument, so you have to warm it up. But in a wrestling dressing room? You've got to be kidding me.

Wrestling saved my life.

It was by accident I got into wrestling. Somebody didn't show up, and I just filled in.

Wrestling moves are made for arenas, not the screen.

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

I was 15 years old when I started wrestling full time, and I know what I had to go through to get here.

Without putting words in anybody's mouth, I think that Roddy has a reputation for being a rebel. I don't think that's a big secret.

Back in the early days of WWE, I remember doing 20 interviews every Tuesday, one right after the other on different topics.

WWE and I have a long history, and I remember some very fun days back in the day.

The WWE gave me a family and a life.

I was raised by the last of the Gorgeous George era. You don't let somebody come from some other business, walk in your business, make a fool of ya and go back into his business and laugh at ya. So if you watch Wrestlemania the very first one, I was the general and here was the rule: don't let Mr. T throw a punch; keep it strictly amateur with him.

I was trained by, at the time, the toughest man in the world. Not according to him, either. His name is 'Judo' Gene Lebell, and he trained Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris. He's the godfather of MMA.

If you've got some to say to Ric Flair, you come say it to me, and I'll make the translation.

I like choir music. I sincerely do!

There was a lot of work that people don't know about that I did to establish my villain persona. There were a lot of miles on the road that went into it, thousands upon thousands of hours of writing on yellow pads while driving in my car with the dome light on.

For years and hundreds of thousands of miles, I drove with one knee, with the eight-track and the light dome on in the car, and a yellow pad, just writing down random ideas. I had notebooks and notebooks. The next morning, I'd go, 'Whoa, what was I thinking?' But there'd be one or two ideas that weren't that bad.

Ric Flair, you once called me a woman. Well, what I want to know is, how does it feel to get beat by a woman?

One night, I knocked out Mr. T, kicked Cyndi Lauper, chased Dick Clark back to his locker room, and slapped Little Richard.

Kurt Angle and Matt Hardy... I have so much respect for them.

I was the youngest in the world in history when I started, 15. That's illegal now.

It seems like I have been fighting someone, something, someplace, in some manner, my whole life.

I've been around the world seven times, been stabbed three times, been down in an airplane, and once dated the Bearded Lady.