Quotes from Bobby Lashley

I got to fight off haters on a regular basis.

I know I can wrestle a lot longer than I can fight.

I'm not covering up. I don't need a t-shirt on to go wrestle.

I can go and fight, take one punch, and have a concussion and start having issues with it, or I can wrestle my entire career and never have a concussion. It's just a hazard of the business.

I love what I do. I love the competition of fighting. And I love to wrestle.

I was a part of the largest WrestleMania ever, so I know how to feed off the energy from the crowd in my fights.

I can't even begin to entertain another wrestler's perception of me if they don't understand what my fans look for in me. I'm different; I'm different.

When you put wrestlers on TV, they're the highest professionals in the business.

Once you catch that fever of wrestling, you really can't get it out.

I don't know which one is harder - going from MMA to wrestling or from wrestling to MMA.

I've never been a politics guy in wrestling; I'm just someone who came out and worked.

Traveling is a part of the business. I think it's really the hardest part of the business because the wrestling part is the easy part - something I love and enjoy doing.

Wrestling is in my blood.

When I head into the cage for an MMA fight, for that time inside the cage, I hate the person standing across the cage. I want to beat him up and beat him up to the point where he never wants to go against me again. After the fight, I can shake his hands, and he - we can be best friends. It's the same thing in professional wrestling.

Kurt Angle was amazing. He was the person who got me into pro wrestling. He found me when I was at the Olympic training center just wrestling, amateur wrestling.

If you've never stepped in a wrestling ring, and you're with me, we can still have an excellent wrestling match, because that's how good I believe I am.

Whether it's MMA or wrestling, I try to find the best people and go after the best people.

I'm a product of amateur wrestling, and there is no one there to help you with matches or win matches - you have to do it yourself.

With wrestling, we're still athletes. I train like we're an athlete as opposed to a body builder. Some people still have that body-builder mentality. But not from me. I do a lot of agility work and stuff like that.

That's why I love wrestling: because there's so many different people. I love everybody, from Hornswoggle to the Great Khali to Seth Rollins, to The Bludgeon Brothers. I love everything about wrestling because of that.

When you get to a certain level in wrestling, you got to be the ring general, and I've been in wrestling for a long time. And I can be a ring general against anybody.

I'm really considering getting into amateur wrestling and getting into more tournaments. I'm looking into going to do some Jiu-Jitsu tournaments. I'm looking into everything.

There's no secret I love professional wrestling. It's not just the money all the time, I love wrestling, and I love fighting.

Pro wrestling has absolutely helped my fighting.