Quotes About Persistence

I always wanted to be a wrestler; I just didn't know how to do it.

I told people I was going to be a wrestler, and they fell down laughing.

I didn't think I could become a wrestler, and I did it.

I remember having the opportunity to meet Ivory, as a kid, and she was the first woman's wrestler that I met. She looked at me and said, 'I'm going to see you in the ring one day, aren't I?'

In wrestling, if you want to be the best wrestler, you show up at the U.S. Nationals. If you win that, you go to World Team Trials. You make the World Team, you go to the World Championships, and we all know who the best is at the end of the year.

I remember, one teacher in Year 11 asked the class what everyone wanted to do when they grow up, and I said, 'I want to be a professional wrestler.' The teacher laughed and said to be serious.

I always wanted to be a wrestler.

It's been a part of my entire life: I've wanted to be a wrestler since I was a little kid. I don't think that ever leaves you.

You don't become a wrestler overnight. Like everything, it takes time and I wasn't born in this business.

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

At first everyone thought that wanting to become a pro wrestler was just a phase.

I lost as amateur, I lost a bunch of times as a wrestler, and you always come back.

But I really think wrestling with pure intentions just wrestling to be a better wrestler, eventually you will get there when the time is right.

My father is the reason I'm a wrestler today. He was trained by Jim 'The Anvil' Neidhart, and competed under the names Billy the Kid and Elvis Wesley on the Florida Independent scene.

A wrestler will always be a wrestler, and they will always go back to the basics.

I grew up wanting to be a professional wrestler, and that's exactly what I'm going to keep doing.

When I first started training to be a wrestler I was also trying my hand at acting. I was trying to get into the Chicago theater scene. It was tougher to get into the theater scene than I thought and I almost gave wrestling a try as an afterthought.

I never thought I was the greatest wrestler, but I never gave up.

I was one of the best wrestlers in Ohio.

I think all wrestlers, you never really want it to end.

It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired - you quit when the gorilla is tired.

When I was 12, I was living in Iowa, and I emailed so many wrestling schools, and one of them was actually in Boston. I joined it at 18 - the New England Pro Wrestling Academy. They were doing a fantasy camp. I was 17 about to turn 18. I told my mom, 'I'm 18 now. I just signed these papers by myself, and I'm going to do this.'

You can't just learn wrestling overnight.

If you go to an ATM for a hundred dollars and it keeps spitting twenties, when would you walk away? When it wasn't spitting twenties no more. As long as you can take the money out, you'd stay there. That's what the wrestling business is like.