Quotes About Showmanship

In the old days wrestling had a certain showmanship. All those people paid their dues. They knew how to wrestle.

There are times when you got to put a little 'extra' in, especially on a card at WrestleMania or SummerSlam because it's no time to hold anything back. You have to pull out all of the stops.

I can see myself having a great WrestleMania match with John Cena, with Chris Jericho.

Absolutely, it's awesome to be a pro wrestler.

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

Wrestlers are the best.

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.

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

It is cool to be a pro wrestler and that makes it so much better for us as pro wrestlers - who go out there and put our bodies on the line and give the fans the entertainment that they deserve.

Without talent, I don't care how funny the writers are or how many comedy lines they come up, without wrestlers you can't have a wrestling program.

Wrestling is ballet with violence.

I don't want to spoil this for anybody but wrestling, sports entertainment, is 'pre-determined.'

Even though MMA and pro wrestling are very different, at the end of the day, it's all about entertaining. They are amazing athletes who go out there and give 100 percent.

Hollywood's great, but wrestling is my first love.

That's one of the things I always tried to do as champ. If you saw me at house shows, I was going to make you think I was going down. If I was wrestling Kane, I could lose. I'm wrestling Batista, I could lose. I'm wrestling Big Show, Undertaker, you name it, I could lose.

Typically, in a live-action format, when you watch a wrestling show, you've got wrestlers in a ring in front of a thousand, five thousand, ten thousand people, and they're playing to large crowd, so you never really get that intimate, close and personal dialogue with them.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.

I don't like to have gimmicks. I don't like to have gadgets and stuff. I just like to go out there and entertain the fans by wrestling.

It's good to go out and entertain these people, and you've got them on the edge of their seat, they're standing up. Then you know that you've done your job, you've entertained them. My way of entertaining them is going out and wrestling. Everyone's got their different ways.

Most people don't know that wrestling came out of the circus.

There are no tough guys in wrestling.

Everybody's out there wrestling like a robot.

Wrestling really is kind of the highest form of theater.

I like wrestling 30 minutes a night.