Quotes from Jim Ross

Vince was so great at the 'Mr. McMahon' character that some people think he wouldn't want to help people in real life, and that's just not true.

When you get the rush of live performing, it's hard to give that up.

Over the years, I've had many talented broadcast partners that have helped me grow as an announcer.

I don't have a bad thing to say about Vince McMahon.

Working with one's boss is a totally different dynamic than working with a peer, especially when doing live or live-to-tape commentary of a genre as unique as sports-entertainment.

It has been my experience that the greatest performers in the genre of sports-entertainment are usually natural extensions of their own, true personality.

Sept. 11, 2001, still feels like a blur to me. I wish it were simply a bad, re-occurring dream, but unfortunately it isn't.

There have always been extraordinarily tough men in the business of sports-entertainment. My view is that one can't be in the sports-entertainment business successfully and long term without being tough.

As God is my witness, he is broken in half!

Stunner! Stunner! He got all of it by God!

Many talents hurt themselves by over thinking the business and doing too much which waters every thing down and makes major moves mean less.

People think you can wave a magic wand and create a star, that couldn't be further from the truth. People think that a promoter has all the cards and the talents are merely pawns and they have very little do with the bigger success, when they have most of their success because of what they do.

They always say you don't want to follow a legend. A few have been able to do that. I think Bill Cowher followed Chuck Noll pretty well with the Pittsburgh Steelers. But it's hard to do at a lot of places.

All of the pivotal moments in my adult life are connected to the wrestling business.

We've only got so much energy in our bodies, and if you want to use some of it for hate, if you choose to exert it negatively, I feel for you. I choose to not hate any team. I use whatever is in my tank for good.

Whether I stay on the air on a weekly basis or I don't, that's not my call. But I've had such a blessed career that if it ended tomorrow, I've got nothing to complain about.

I look back upon those days in the Crockett/Turner era of The Four Horsemen and often wonder how I made it out alive. Perhaps my contract had some fine print on it that said, 'Associating with The Four Horsemen can be hazardous to one's health.'

There are many ways to do something right within the world of pro wrestling.

If there was a Mount Rushmore for pro wrestling cities, Chicago and New York would be on there.

Life for all its gains pierces in ways that leave scars, where I've bled, I've lived

Words--Midnight coined and daily spent. . .writer of the dream. --Jim Ross Author, Rays: Wherever They Touch

When one chooses a life as a public personality they give up certain levels of privacy but in one's home and intimate moments everyone should be protected.

When you grow up on a farm, you grow up fast.

It doesn't matter if you have a six-minute match on 'Superstars,' go out and steal the show. Go have a great, solid match. Somebody's going to say, 'Who cares about 'Superstars?' Nobody watches it. And it's only six minutes.' That's the wrong attitude. That's a loser's attitude, and that's what I've told dozens of talents.