Quotes About Athletics

I always said when I was younger that I want to wrestle until I'm 40 or even in the 50s as long as I can still keep doing the same style of wrestling that I do.

I was obsessed with it, and then I learned more about professional wrestling and how the beauty that does exist in it is truly an art form.

MMA was like wrestling; I love competition.

Wrestling is something I feel really confident in now.

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

I am a huge wrestling fan. I would say The Rock is my favorite person to watch for obvious reasons.

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.

There were no wrestling schools in Ireland. It was completely unheard of.

Wrestling really is kind of the highest form of theater.

There's a misconception about wrestling, that it's really fake, but it's real, and you can really get hurt, even though a lot of it is performative.

I was a big fan of amateur wrestling, and I loved it and dedicated my whole life to it for 20-something years, and it's not really a glory-getting sport.

Part of me wants to stay involved in wrestling, because I love it. But the thing I loved most about it was the wrestling part of it. I didn't get into it to be famous or to be a TV star: I got into it because I loved the act of wrestling.

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

I'm telling you, there have been some great finishers in the world of pro wrestling or sports entertainment. Whatever you want to call it. Man, I enjoyed the Iron Claw back in the day. I believed it was real.

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.

My passion is the wrestling.

People who like hard-hitting wrestling and action, they'll like me.

I've been wrestling since I was 18 years old. And within the first five months of my wrestling career, I'd already had three concussions. And for years after that, I would get a concussion here and there, and it gets to the point that when you've been wrestling for 16 years, that adds up to a lot of concussions.

I have a very good ground game and very good wrestling. People just underestimate it. That's it. I want to keep it like that.

There are many wrestlers in my mother's family. So I guess I've inherited my love for wrestling from my mother's side of the family.

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

Wrestling has always been a dominating force in UFC.

I like wrestling 30 minutes a night.

Wrestling is second nature: I've been doing it for so long, so if it looks like someone's leg is available, it made sense for my first three fights that I would shoot for legs.