Quotes About Persistence

I never want to hide my wrestling background.

I did what I always wanted to do. Wrestling. - conquered that. Can't physically do it anymore. So now what? Maybe I'll paint. Maybe I'll write another book. Yeah, I'll try this acting thing and now actually concentrate on it and try and get better at it and take classes and get coaching and give it a shot.

I've done bingo halls and tents in front of 10 people with a cow mooing in the background. Doing that and then going to WrestleMania and the Superdome and wrestling in front of 80,000 people is night and day.

I always said to myself when I first started wrestling that I was gonna put absolutely everything into it - into becoming the absolute best pro wrestling that I could be.

Life is like a wrestling match: a lot of times, things are looking good, and then something happens, and you're fighting from underneath.

Ever since 'Tough Enough,' and getting put on 'Total Divas' right away, it was kind of like I never stopped. I was like, 'Okay, now I need to get to the Performance Center.' I needed to train and get the wrestling down.

I've been wrestling and making music for a long time.

Writing songs is kind of like a wrestling match to me. You have to pin it down and make it do what you want it to do.

For me, I didn't have anyone in the wrestling world... trying to get my foot in the door was virtually impossible.

All the time I was in college, I was going to wrestling school on the weekends.

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

Once I started wrestling, I really got into it, and I just knew that I wanted to do that - I wanted to wrestle all the way through college.

My grandmother played a huge influence in my life and helped raise me, and she and my mother saw how much I loved pro wrestling and how much I wanted to go after it.

To be honest, I was not very good in studies; I was an average student. I used to work hard, whether it was for wrestling or studies, as I considered myself not that talented. I used to mug up everything during exams.

I'm a second-generation professional wrestler. My family, the Rhodes family, has been wrestling for 50-odd years.

I went to a wrestling school in Canada. That did not work out well, I think I was out there for like a week.

I'd been told countless times, even before I got into pro wrestling, that I would never amount to anything and that I'd never achieve this dream.

When I write a film, there's a particular thing I am wrestling with and the question or concern I'm dealing with has to be big enough for me to dedicate a year or two of my life. If the question isn't big enough, or rich enough, I'll lose interest.

Everything's relative. I don't think any new pursuit will be as difficult as trying to break into wrestling 25 years ago.

You have to believe in yourself. But you know what? There's a fine line between believing in yourself and being delusional. And I'm sure there were a lot of people who thought I was being delusional when they saw me attempting to become a big shot in the world of pro wrestling. Luckily, it worked out: it doesn't work out for that many people.

When I started wrestling, I sucked. I hated losing, so I started doing pushups and more squats, and then I did summer wrestling and learned different styles.

When I got into professional wrestling, I started, and I starved for two years, and I finally got some breaks. And then I got the biggest break, and I made the most of it and took wresting to its highest level ever.

My whole life, I've been training for something, whether it be baseball or football or wrestling or martial arts.

I love wrestling. That's not going to change.