Quotes About Challenges

Everybody in this business has lost. Undertaker's lost at WrestleMania, and that was never supposed to happen, but it did.

I'm a wrestler with nine toes. I'm a wrestler who has been through a lot of battles. I get to do a lot of motivational speaking, and people are blown away and say, 'You never quit. You keep coming back.'

Without Ring of Honor, I wouldn't be the wrestler I am or have the confidence needed to continue to grow in this ever-challenging sport.

Being a professional wrestler surely prepares you for any acting role in that we have to act on live television, so there's a lot of pressure put there.

I remember when I first walked into an American locker room, and no one had ever seen a 130-pound wrestler before. Those guys thought I was such a joke.

Being married to a wrestler has its unique challenges, being a wrestler married to a wrestler is next level.

How could I not be the underdog, starting at 35 and a half and going from a manager and a fourth-string color commentator to being a wrestler?

Clearly, I wanted to be a pro wrestler, but I got laughed at. I was kind of the runt. I was never the tallest kid or the biggest kid or the strongest kid, so I would get laughed at when I'd say it.

It's very hard to be a family man, a father, a husband, an independent wrestler, and a police officer.

I don't think I'd be the wrestler or the athlete that I am today if I didn't have some of the intergender matches that I have.

Everybody told me I was too small to be a wrestler.

In my past, I've always had the physical abilities. They were always there, but sometimes the mental side of it - I was younger coming in as a wrestler, didn't know what the hell I was doing on my feet.

I'm always prepared. I've wrestled every kind of wrestler that there is, I've been in every situation that there possibly has been.

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

The fact is, there's a ton of opportunities out there now for professional wrestlers which, when I was coming through, weren't really there. The only game in town realistically was WWE, and it was very, very difficult to see yourself working anywhere outside of that.

My whole career, I've been fighting wrestlers. If you look back, all of my fights have been against wrestlers.

I was very much a student of the sport. I wanted to know everything, all the moves. It was the coolest thing I had seen. I started winning matches. Dads didn't want their sons to face a girl. Coaches didn't want to put any of their wrestlers up against me to be beaten by a girl.

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

For female wrestlers, it's always such a thin line, because every sport has its age limits, but when it comes to women, we seem to reach those age limits more quickly.

The most challenging thing that female wrestlers face is time. Getting those segments on Raw, getting one, two, three, four segments on SmackDown, main-eventing a pay-per-view, being considered a face of the division... And I have said it since day one: I want to be an attraction for the company.

I came from my father being one of the greatest wrestlers of all time. It's really hard to fill those shoes.

What the general public doesn't always understand is that wrestlers often only have hours to put things together, not days or weeks, except in certain cases.

Not a whole lot of us are wrestling somebody for a canned food item in the supermarket or having an ax fight in the jungle clearing. Instead, we sit and think about taxes and the ozone layer.

I think staying away from wrestling for two years with injury and the movie, I lost my focus.