Quotes About Wrestling

Curtis Axel has more talent than his grandfather and his father.

Once upon a time, I liked to call myself 'The Grandfather of NXT' because I was one of the first to come up as I was, from NXT.

I come from a wrestling background - my father and grandfather were into wrestling.

My grandmother got into this business in the 1940s, so it's all I've ever known. So I've seen a lot of wrestling.

The true wrestling fans that watch TNA Impact, I think they've always known. I don't want to say they take it for granted in anyway, but they always just know that TNA and Impact Wrestling are going to give them women's wrestling.

I wrestled in high school, so I actually have a bit of a base in grappling.

Grappling is my style.

I always get the fathers and the younger grandpas coming up to me and telling me how much they loved me even though I was a bad guy for most of my run. But the most gratifying thing to me is when I have the young guys who cheer for John Cena come up to me and tell me how cool I am.

I believe in giving back to the industry of professional wrestling that has given me a great deal in my life.

Fans that are excited and involved in the action can add an atmosphere that makes wrestling in front of them a great experience.

Slobberknocker: My Life in Wrestling' is really not a wrestling book. It's a book about life, and there's a great love story in this book. There are great life lessons in this book about not allowing others to define you.

Total Divas' was a great opportunity.

Vince McMahon has overachieved his entire life in a big way. I got to know him really well and still have great respect for him.

The great thing about 'Total Divas' is that it gives people who don't watch wrestling an avenue to see how empowering we women are.

I learned so much from Ric Flair... just listening to him guide me early in my career.

It's much more casual than it was, but my clothes and my ring attire - I thought up half of what I brought to the show.

I got to travel to Australia and I got to main event at Korakuen Hall.

The Greeks saw wrestling as elemental, which likely explains why most ancient forms involved naked combatants who were doused in olive oil and often covered with a thin layer of sand to protect their skin from summer's sun and winter's cold.

If you're wrestling with some sort of decision, reflect for a moment and ask yourself, Am I being brave, or am I being safe? In the end, it depends on whether we think God can be trusted.

It would be a poor result of all our anguish and our wrestling, if we won nothing but our old selves at the end of it... Let us rather be thankful that our sorrow lives in us as an indestructible force, only changing its form, as forces do, and passing from pain into sympathy - the one poor word which includes all our best insight and our best love.

The first time I won the Ring of Honor World Championship, I was a kid - I was 23 years old.

When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that Eric Bischoff doesn't know that much about wrestling. This guy was selling meat out the back of a truck and became a ring announcer for Verne Gagne and I've always wondered how he ever got a job.

When 'In Your House' became a thing when I was a kid, it was just the coolest ever and people are winning houses... So when NXT is bringing out the old-school graphics, the only thing I'm wondering is if somehow we could have that old 'In Your House' set. That's all just the fan in me.