Quotes About Competition

This whole wrestling world is a different breed, there's no doubt.

I know more about UFC than the wrestling circuit. I think everybody's a pretty good guy in the UFC.

I got no support from USA Wrestling. I was competing against professional Russians that do nothing but wrestle for a living, and I was forced to take a job working for this lowlife loser, John du Pont, who I didn't want in my life. I just wanted the money.

Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.

All those guys wanna be us. All the fighters wanna be in professional wrestling; I don't care what they say.

I would love to have gotten into it with Harley Race. He was such a good wrestler and rough and tough. We wrestled at the same time but never each other. And wrestling Sting would have been something I would have enjoyed.

When I was a kid, I wrestled my high school amateur wrestling in junior year.

Guys play basketball and get hurt, and that's probably the easiest sport on the planet. We're actually fighting every day. We're wrestling; we're grappling.

I always felt like the wrestling business was better off with two viable mainstream promotions.

MMA was like wrestling; I love competition.

Wrestling is a hard sport, but it's only a sport.

I want to get in there and wrestle my sister! That's the fun part, when you get in there with someone who has the same passion for wrestling and that can work well, and you can put on a good match where you can really just get at each other.

Wrestling really is kind of the highest form of theater.

Nothing is more theater-based than wrestling. It's Greek-tragedy-level theater.

Everyone out here in Los Angeles is trying to do whatever to break into films. It is a tough industry to get into, kind of like pro wrestling in a lot of respects when you think about it.

I started wrestling when I was five. I lost my first match and cried in front of my dad, and I never wanted to do that again.

I am into professional wrestling. Only Greco-Roman and freestyle wrestling can qualify in Olympics. I chose professional wrestling for fame and limelight and good money.

It's been my long-cherished dream to bring a wrestling league to India.

Wrestling has always been a dominating force in UFC.

The thing about Brock has always been, who can push Brock to a level where you actually get to see the best of Brock Lesnar, because very rarely have people ever gotten a chance to see that. I mean, really, who can keep up with him? This is not wrestling hype: he's a once-in-a-lifetime athlete.

I know if you get mad, and in a world with all the competitors I've been around in my life, either from fighting or wrestling or other sports, you have to learn to breathe.

Wrestling is a big game and has a good scope in India.

It is due to wrestling that people now know and recognise me.

Wrestling is a small, intimate sport.