Quotes About Athletics

I do MMA, but I feel like a pro wrestler at heart. That's why I fight the way I fight in MMA. That's why I slam people and stuff around.

I came into this game a wrestler and that was pretty much it. I was tough, I could take a guy down and beat him up. I threw a good overhand right.

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 remember reading one blog site where one blogger said I looked like a professional wrestler on the track. I was a big boy. I was looking at myself in the mirror and saying, 'I look good!' But I wasn't looking race good.

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

I beat St. Pierre, who's a physical specimen, a better wrestler, and supposedly a better striker. People thought I was gonna get killed. But I have experience in wars with the best guys in the world. I knew at the very least he'd be in the hospital with me.

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

My first six months were in Japan; then I went to Mexico and then went back to Japan. I had the opportunity to wrestle all the wrestlers from the United States, Europe, and Japan when I was there.

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

My grandfather was one of the very, very first, if not the first, Samoan wrestlers to become known on a worldwide basis.

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 should be more funding and support for young and upcoming wrestlers.

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

When I got a little older, like, 10 or 11, my dad would run a training school every month, teaching people how to become wrestlers. I would get in the ring now and again and mess around with one of my brothers, and he'd teach me some stuff.

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.

I'm still the guy who shared the ring with The Undertaker, Shawn Michaels, Triple H when they were still actually active. And I'm aware, as my wife loves to hear. It's not different than any sport in the world where the best wrestlers are gonna get the best spots. That spot is for me, because I've earned it.

In the wrestling world, we say the Judo guys are just the leftover wrestlers that couldn't make the wrestling team.

I want to become one of the most versatile wrestlers in the world.

I've wrestled some of the best wrestlers in the world - both male and female.

Usually, it is the men who are given importance. But now, people view women wrestlers as equals.