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Wrestling is intimate. You can reach out and touch the wrestlers.

Many of those who have paid the ultimate price for freedom have come through the wrestling ranks. We need to honor them and win this decision to have wrestling - the world's oldest sport - remain a part of the most prestigious athletic competition in the world, the Olympics.

If cricket can be so glamorous and lucrative, I don't see why wrestling should lag behind.

Wrestling in Japan is very much sports based.

I was really into sports, playing track and field, amateur wrestling, volleyball, and soccer. I was a very active kid and teenager.

Since retiring, there's only been one time I actually dreamed about wrestling. In my dream, I was wrestling against Kurt Angle. I had him clamped in a headlock. I was breathing hard, and I remember telling myself, 'This is only a dream. It's not real.' But the longer I held Kurt in a headlock, I started to believe it was real.

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.

For me I was just trying to use my background from cliff diving, incorporate it into my wrestling and make it more exciting for the fans.

Everything about me is favored towards wrestling.

In wrestling, I was always competing against bigger guys.

You watch Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather fight, Floyd can just throw a few punches, or he can do a lot of defense; he can slip a few punches, let Conor get a few shots in. You can't really do that in wrestling without getting scored on or putting yourself at risk.

Don't get me wrong - I like to look at the ladies as much as the next guy. But what in the hell do they do they have to do with wrestling? Nothing.

He's got the look. He's got the ability to speak. He's got the ability to step in the ring and back it up with his wrestling skill. It's an amazing, unique combination that Ricky Starks has.

In my wrestling days, bulimia was very, very prevalent.

There is nothing I love more than pro wrestling, so getting to do that all over the globe with some of the best out there is my personal heaven.

I'm built for wrestling. I have a high pain tolerance. My nose has been broken a couple times. Black eyes.

Wrestling has made me very mentally strong, conditioned me really well for MMA, and given me phenomenal balance.

I just think that with my wrestling background there's not going to be any doubt in my mind that if I have to go through a three round war that in the third round I'm gonna be more fresh, more tenacious, I'm gonna want that win more than anybody else I'm going to have to fight.

NFL, NBA, they all have off-seasons. Wrestling doesn't have an off-season. We're on the road 209 days out of the year, performing in different cities every single night.

When I was very first getting into wrestling, the Undertaker was my favorite.

I was very active in college. I wanted to play athletics, and then I looked at wrestling as being a viable option to do that.

Wrestling is my first love.

As far as wrestling goes, as long as my body is able to withstand the physical beating, I will keep wrestling.

Iran has been strong in individual sports like wrestling, judo and weightlifting, but we have never excelled at team sports.