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Quotes About Athletics

In Sheikie's day, we wrestle. We not use gimmick like the table chair.
~ The Iron Sheik
If I had only Inoki to meet, I could wrestle until I was 60 years old.
~ Bruno Sammartino
I honestly can't describe what goes on in my head when I'm out there. People who don't wrestle can't possibly understand it. When I'm in the ring, I don't feel any pain. I'm in another world out there.
~ Eddie Guerrero
There's a couple guys that I'd like to wrestle, but truthfully, I want to wrestle as many guys as I can.
~ A.J. Styles
I think Cormier is gonna come out and try to wrestle me, try to get me tired, and try to push the pace. I know he might not say that I'm on his level but I think I am and he thinking that I'm not, really.
~ Derrick Lewis
I never really liked weightlifting because there is no problem solving, whereas when I am fighting, I am trying to solve a problem, so I don't think about being tired. I box, wrestle, do jujitsu, run up sand dunes; every single day is something different so that I am mentally engaged. That's what makes me want to train longer.
~ Ronda Rousey
Boston is one of my favorite places to wrestle.
~ Rikishi
On 'American Gladiators,' I got to pummel a lot of people off a pyramid with a giant Q-tip. It was so much fun to wrestle people with no risk of getting knocked out or choked out.
~ Gina Carano
I had a great time in the NFL. To make it in the amount of time that I did was awesome; it's a dream come true, and hell, it gave me the opportunity to go wrestle.
~ Bill Goldberg
Any time I get to wrestle Sasha, I always want to do it.
~ Bayley
A lot of wrestling interviews are boring, plain and simple. They don't say anything you never heard before. Your basic wrestling interview is, you ask me how am I going to do, and I say, 'I'm going to do my best. I'm going to wrestle hard.'
~ Ben Askren
If I want a kid to be good at a front headlock - which, if you're gonna wrestle at a high level, you need a good front headlock - I'm gonna put him in there 50 times in that practice.
~ Ben Askren
I'm going to show you how we do it in New Japan Pro Wrestling. That's what you get whenever I wrestle, whoever's in the ring with me.
~ Kazuchika Okada
I do wrestle a really high-risk and high-flying style.
~ Neville
To me, the more the merrier. The more times I can get in that ring and get in front of a crowd and wrestle, the better.
~ Matt Riddle
When I wrestle as a tag team with my brother, it's always great because we realize as our bodies, our vessels, age, we know we can't do this forever.
~ Matt Hardy
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.
~ Bobby Lashley
I love what I do. I love the competition of fighting. And I love to wrestle.
~ Bobby Lashley
I'd love to wrestle Baron Corbin and Finn Balor.
~ Big Show
I try to wrestle one time a week with good, solid people.
~ Ben Askren
I'm usually looking to wrestle and grapple, but I guess the knockouts just happen.
~ Roy Nelson
I started at a small school in Virginia, and I learned how to wrestle - at least take falls - in a boxing ring.
~ Mickie James
I've never had the 'I'm going to throw up' feeling in the ring, but I do get headaches after I wrestle if I don't eat.
~ Ricochet
Bill Goldberg can't wrestle.
~ Matt Riddle