Quotes About Competition

I'm the best Crusierweight, X Division, Junior Heavyweight wrestler whatever you want to call it.

I don't classify myself as a wrestler, I'm a grappler.

There have been many matches where a wrestler gets hurt. The referee usually senses it and stops the match, but the referee doesn't always know.

I'm not a WWE wrestler and that's how it feels sometimes out on the court.

I'm a good wrestler.

This sport started with the question, Who would win, a karate guy or a boxer? A judo guy or a wrestler? That was the original draw behind the sport. That's what caught everybody's attention.

If a guy's a very good wrestler or a really good boxer or has a really good high kick, you prepare for that. It's the same when you're going to fight someone who talks a lot of crap.

Matt Hardy is a tag team wrestler. He's one of the greatest tag team wresters in the history of tag team wrestling.

The best wrestlers don't hurt anyone for real.

Sometimes when I get asked by younger wrestlers, 'Do you have any advice for me? What do you think you can help me on?' and I tell them I think the best advice is to try and outdo yourself. Always be unique, always be creative. I think that was part of my success. I never wanted anybody to be on top of me. I always wanted to be number one.

Football players cannot be wrestlers. Wrestling is a much tougher sport.

The fact is, there's a ton of opportunities out there now for professional wrestlers which, when I was coming through, weren't really there. The only game in town realistically was WWE, and it was very, very difficult to see yourself working anywhere outside of that.

As wrestlers, we're not trying to hurt or damage physically our opponent. All we're trying to do is score points and get our hands raised, so I think that's where we differ from the UFC, but I think that also the way in which we could address each other could be cool from a competitive spirit.

My whole career, I've been fighting wrestlers. If you look back, all of my fights have been against wrestlers.

You've got to stay in pretty good shape to be a pro wrestler, and all the TNA wrestlers get a bit nervous when I wrestle them because they're afraid I'll tire them out, but the Olympics is a whole different level.

There are good wrestlers, great wrestlers, and special wrestlers.

Wrestlers are a bunch of wanna-be football players.

Many Republicans have always reminded me of professional W.W.F. wrestlers. They come into the ring all pumped up and acting like they're invincible and that they're going to destroy their opponent. Then they get hit once and fall down and roll around in agony and suddenly seem immobilized by pain, calling for the ref to intervene.

I have more respect for amateur wrestlers, especially collegiate ones, than anyone else. It's a gutsy sport with no real payoff except for knowing that you were better than someone else. It doesn't have big crowds, it doesn't have big money, but it is fun going one on one.

Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.

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

My whole family are wrestlers; I was brought up in the business.

My sister wrestles. Both of my brothers are wrestlers, and my nieces and nephews all plan to wrestle.

My dad was able to wrestle so many great Japanese wrestlers.