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Quotes from Jim Cornette

I had to spend eleven months in the same room with Vince Russo and Vince McMahon, that's where I really got to hate life in general.
~ Jim Cornette
A lot of people say now, 'John Cena doesn't work.' Well, John Cena does the things that people go to see John Cena do, and he doesn't take a lot of risks.
~ Jim Cornette
Dana Brooke's entire face looks like it was remodeled after somebody set fire to it and put it out with an axe.
~ Jim Cornette
When you are as big and strong as Strowman, WWE notices you and basically pays you to go to school. He was paid to train, has a guaranteed contract, and gets paid whether he wrestles or not. He couldn't survive in the actual wrestling business. He never had to pay his dues.
~ Jim Cornette
I'm the only person in wrestling that realizes I'm too old to do this anymore, and that's why I'm not a performer and I'm not going to be on 'ROH.'
~ Jim Cornette
I was a big fan of The Revival when they were in NXT. I thought they were as good as Tully Blanchard and Arn Anderson.
~ Jim Cornette
I've always been a fan of Bobby Roode's.
~ Jim Cornette
I had always in the past thought The Ultimate Warrior was the epitome of a guy making money with no talent.
~ Jim Cornette
There's no casual wrestling fan anymore.
~ Jim Cornette
I'm not looking to be a superstar. That's why I'm positioned as the face of TNA.
~ Jim Cornette
John Cena's success was the least surprising.
~ Jim Cornette
People that lie to me generally get banished or vanished to the planet Pluto in my mind.
~ Jim Cornette
From the time I was 5 years old, I collected comic books.
~ Jim Cornette
Maybe Rock and Elizabeth Warren could team up and shore up each other's weaknesses. Elizabeth Warren has a plan for everything and all the experience, and The Rock could sell it to the people, 'cause the people could smell what Rock is cooking.
~ Jim Cornette
The WWE is fine. They can afford to not only sign anybody they really want, but they can also afford to sign people just to keep them out of the talent pool that everybody else has.
~ Jim Cornette
There's a lot of crossover between comic fans, wrestling fans and pop culture fans.
~ Jim Cornette
I went on a diet and went from 248 pounds to 211.
~ Jim Cornette
The reason why the tag teams are not main event level attractions in the WWE is because Vince McMahon doesn't like it and doesn't present it that way. He'd rather make individual stars.
~ Jim Cornette
I think tag team wrestling is every bit as exciting, if not more exciting than singles competition.
~ Jim Cornette
The Rock 'n' Roll Express and the '80s NWA crew; Ric Flair and the Four Horsemen, Magnum TA, Dusty Rhodes - that was a great crew of talent and they were all so great to work with.
~ Jim Cornette
We all prosper when folks are more appraised of how great those matches were and how great those talents were from all of the guys who populated the NWA in the '80s.
~ Jim Cornette
'Bullet' Bob was one of the most important parts of Smoky Mountain from the start. He was a retired wrestling legend and talked better than anyone on the roster.
~ Jim Cornette
We got shorted when it comes to recognition for the '80s war. Everybody talks about the 'Monday Night Wars' and the 'Attitude Era,' but it was neck and neck in the '80s.
~ Jim Cornette
I can stay under 215 pounds, which is pretty good for me, if I stay off the road. If I go on the road, I invariably eat garbage and start to lose my girlish figure.
~ Jim Cornette