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Quotes About Legacy

My dad was always a great talker on the microphone, so I tried to learn a lot from him in that way, and he's very old-school. He built the wrestling family that we have.
~ Paige
Pro wrestling has always been ingrained into American culture. It was one of the first things that was ever on television, so everybody watched it. Countless people tell me, 'I got into wrestling because my grandfather watched it.' It was always there.
~ CM Punk
I don't know if me and my dad have necessarily touched on this because we talk about Reid but not a lot. But me wrestling, I think, ultimately saved my dad's career and not only saved my life but definitely put a whole other chapter that no one saw coming because it could've been rock bottom after my brother passed away.
~ Charlotte Flair
In our family, we don't know why there are so many of us in wrestling. We think about it at the dinner table when we have big family reunions, and it just comes from a passion and love we have for the industry.
~ Rikishi
Wrestling will be around forever. It's been around thousands of years. It's going to be around till the end of time.
~ Mark Schultz
The South is where wrestling was birthed.
~ R-Truth
Memphis is like the heart of wrestling.
~ R-Truth
I'm a second-generation professional wrestler. My family, the Rhodes family, has been wrestling for 50-odd years.
~ Cody Rhodes
I owe a lot to my dad, just for having provided the wrestling business for us to get into.
~ Owen Hart
I got to have about 15 minutes with Michelle Obama, and that was a big deal because you're like, 'Wow, I'm part of living history.' You know? I definitely think she could take me in an arm wrestling match.
~ Ross Mathews
I'm not going to be a guy that retires and keeps coming back. When I'm gone, I'm gone. Same thing as amateur wrestling; when I won the world championships in Olympics, I left and I never went back. Same for pro.
~ Kurt Angle
If it took professional wrestling for people to recognize me as a person, then all the other endeavors I embark upon will explain me as a person, define me as a person, but wrestling will not define me.
~ Bill Goldberg
I'm from a wrestling family, a wrestling dynasty. And as biased as that may be, I firmly believe I am from the greatest wrestling family of all time.
~ Roman Reigns
If I put wrestling boots and wrestling trunks on one last time - and I'm going to - it's going to be done by me and me only.
~ Bill Goldberg
We're changing the way people are going to look at wrestling, women's wrestling, forever. Forever. And we're at the start of it? That's unbelievable. That's unbelievable! Unbelievable.
~ Becky Lynch
There are many wrestlers in my mother's family. So I guess I've inherited my love for wrestling from my mother's side of the family.
~ Yo Yo Honey Singh
It would be a huge loss to the wrestling industry and for those of us that have made our living in this industry to lose someone like Ric Flair.
~ Shane Douglas
Wrestling is in my blood.
~ Bobby Lashley
One of the fun things about wrestling is that you can do a move and leave your stamp on the business forever.
~ Matt Hardy
The Hart Family is as good of a family as there ever was on the face of the earth, and they've got a lot of kids that were involved in the wrestling part of it.
~ Harley Race
I just wanted to stay Harley Race in the wrestling world, worldwide, and that is what I did for a long time.
~ Harley Race
No one iced their body in professional wrestling before me. I did it because I was 35, 36, 37. I was already what would have been considered an old timer.
~ Diamond Dallas Page
When I first came up in the wrestling business, there was a movie called 'The California Dolls' about a female tag team - girls who are struggling trying to make it in the wrestling world. I started out in a tag team, and my name was Britani Knight, and my dad named us after The California Dolls. We were called The Norfolk Dolls.
~ Paige
I don't think there's anything else in the world that my dad loves talking about more than wrestling.
~ Charlotte Flair