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Quotes About Wrestling

What makes that turnstile turn? That's what made wrestling what it has become. The fans dictate the direction of the wrestling industry.
~ Terry Funk
It's the fans that dictate what wrestling is. That's the one constant from 1917 to 2017.
~ Terry Funk
Yeah I feel like British wrestling deserves a bigger chance and everyone will see that when it's on the WWE Network. People will realise not just in England, but in all the different countries here, there is a lot of talent.
~ Pete Dunne
I've always liked being on the performance end of it. I've come up with different ideas, but as far as being a creative writer, I'm not sure about that. I've always liked the performance end of it and wrestling, getting in the ring in front of a live crowd.
~ Christian Cage
If I can make someone tap out with my ankle lock it would be Sasha Banks.
~ Jake Hager
I found wrestling when I was 11 years old. About two years later, I convinced my mom to let me rent my first UFC tape. I was fascinated by the sport.
~ Michael Chiesa
I loved wrestling when you had to get a VHS tape from a strange.
~ Matt Sydal
I study a lot of tapes. I have a passion for the business, and I've always wanted to be the best ever since I got in the business. I have a love for this sport and just want to be the best in it.
~ Bobby Roode
Dave Taylor, who was my tag partner in WWE, had a wrestling school close to where we both lived in Georgia for a while.
~ William Regal
We love professional wrestling. It started with High Chief Peter Maivia and then Afa and Sika. The teachings that they have. The respect for the business. You protect the business. You go out there and be the best that you can.
~ Rikishi
An ideal day starts with putting on a good, smart, fun show where I learn something and ends with me fending off atomic knee drops from my two kids in our no-holds-barred pillow fight/steel cage matches. They are a ruthless tag team.
~ Willie Geist
When I was leaving college, getting ready to graduate with a degree in finance, I had job interviews for months and months - and nothing really was moving like a real opportunity. Meanwhile, a lot of my wrestling teammates at Oklahoma had started getting into MMA training.
~ Jake Hager
Jude's use of epagonidzomai means to fight over an issue or to fight for a truth, and it pictures people who are wrestling between issues of truth and deception.
~ Rick Renner
I just started watching wrestling in 2008, and I've loved it ever since. I told my mom I wanted to become a wrestler.
~ Rico Rodriguez
When I was a junior, my school introduced badminton, which was clearly a P.E. department ploy to get me away from the wrestling room, and it worked, since the first time I played badminton was like the first time I tasted sushi or heard the Beatles or read Wordsworth. This was a sport? This counted for gym requirements?
~ Rob Sheffield
This metaphorical depiction of the Soviet situation as a great wrestling match of opposing classes was at once a manifesto of Stalin's Leninism and a clear revelation of his lifelong need to "beat" in the twofold sense of "strike" and "be victorious.
~ Robert C. Tucker
The Rock knew his wrestling career was over when he looked across the ring and saw his opponent... THE PAPER.
~ Jerry Thomas
The word dream match is thrown around quite a bit, and I mean if you think about it. There's all these possibilities, like what if Edge could face Roman Reigns or Seth Rollins? Or, a guy like AJ Styles.
~ Christian Cage
The only reason why I'm on Twitter is because Dixie Carter made me. I'll go on Twitter every now and again and just say some things. Normally, it's just to hype wrestling and to hype what's coming on TV and whatnot.
~ Bobby Roode
For many many years, the MMA world shunned on the pro wrestling world. They shunned on us for getting action figures and whatnot.
~ Christian Cage
There are guys who thrive completely on the action in the ring and see the promotion as a necessary evil, whereas I think it's so much easier to tell people what a tough guy you are, as opposed to backing it up.
~ Mick Foley
When I get in the ring, I get to work very aggressively and solid, whereas with the Lord thing there were a lot of facials and stuff like that.
~ William Regal
I think people are realizing that whereas now the 'Ultimate Fighting Championship' has taken over what people used to like about pro wrestling in the '70s and '80s. We just want to see who's going to fight for the title.
~ Jim Cornette
I think a lot of wrestling revolves around the bodybuilding-type perspective on nutrition, whereas I have a different approach; I'm way more focused on longevity and making sure I get those micronutrients in and eating a bunch of organic good as often as I can.
~ Pete Dunne