Quotes About Community

Our lives are totally wrapped up in ministering to the people.

I think, especially living in L.A., it's very easy to get wrapped up in weekend announcements and the trades and the whole social life of the city, and to get divorced from what actually matters.

It's painfully obvious to see that as Americans we can sometimes be wrapped up in our own affairs.

I sang 'American Pie' a lot in my stage set. It had a knack of uniting an audience in a sing-along. It's a clever song about American history but wrapped in a fantastic tune.

The Gamifaction Movement is trying to help companies engage their audience and community by using game mechanics and wrapping them around shopping or achievements, so you get achievements for coming to a store or purchasing things, like rewarding activities.

AIDS is a shared truth - it's not selective in its wrath.

Our democracy cannot be left in the hands of those who would rather watch or participate in a train wreck than stop it.

Every barbershop has a guy who wrecks shop every time he comes in. He has the whole barbershop laughing. That doesn't mean he's a comedian.

Anti-social behaviour still blights lives, wrecks communities and provides a pathway to criminality.

Obviously, it's very exciting to be able to wrestle in my hometown.

I'm dark-skinned. When I'm around black people, I'm made to feel 'other' because I'm dark-skinned. I've had to wrestle with that, with people going, 'You're too black.' Then I come to America, and they say, 'You're not black enough.'

Botswana has an incredible future if it can wrestle the HIV scenario to the ground.

I try to wrestle one time a week with good, solid people.

Growing up in Perry, Oklahoma, there's not a lot going on, so we would go wrestle anywhere and anyplace we could. It really is who I am.

Let's Wrestle would rather poke fun than point fingers, even if there's a problem that needs fixing.

Reading has helped motivate me to become a spokesperson for programs like the WrestleMania Reading Challenge. It has motivated me to become more involved in my community and to keep learning new things.

People from over 160 countries come to WrestleMania, and you get to feel the energy from people all over the world when we're in the ring doing our thing that day.

I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn't have to translate.

Throughout my whole time in wrestling on the road, going out and being around some of the whitest people in the world, I've never had any problems with anybody. It was never black or white. Booker T was just a wrestler. I did that by design.

One of my friend's dad owned a grocery store, and one of the kids who worked at the grocery store was a wrestler. We got tickets to one of the shows, and then we stayed after, and they asked us if we wanted to get in there and train a little bit.

I used to want to be a pro wrestler first, a stuntman if I couldn't do that, and a fireman to fall back on. The guy who used to live across the street from me was the fire chief, so he was going to help me out if I didn't succeed at the other things.

I want to be one of the wrestlers that actually gave back, that actually cared about the industry. That's very important to me.

Part of what I've tried to do since I became 'Hangman' is try to give back to the world because I know I can make people feel a little more uncomfortable than maybe most wrestlers do.

I was an outcast. I was from a town of wrestlers and football players.