Quotes About Wrestling

If you look at who emerged on the horizon 12 to 18 months after ECW stopped running shows, I think it's very reasonable to believe that we would have picked up CM Punk and several of the other young stars that emerged in the independent scene in the early part of that decade. Punk obviously is the one that I would hope I would have noticed.

I guarantee you, there will be wrestling at Donald Trump's inaugural reception. I guaran-damn-tee it.

I loved working with Cena. He was always receptive to my ideas, even if they weren't good.

Aug. 2, 1992, was one of the most memorable moments in sports-entertainment. It was on that night in Baltimore, that Ron Simmons became the first African American recognized as World Heavyweight Champion in wrestling.

We're on the road 300 days a year. There's no recovery time. It's a test of your physical and mental endurance.

Honestly, I feel like the more entrenched into professional wrestling I got, it became apparent to me that it was really a part and parcel with MMA. There wasn't a whole lot of difference at all. If anything, I refer to it as the other side of the same coin.

The matches that I've been involved with as a referee, sometimes the heel likes to get up in my face a little bit and even at 65 years old, I don't put up with that crap. Most times or not, the poor guy gets chopped down a few times.

Jake Roberts started in Mid-South as a referee. We're pretty close, and we come from the same school of thought when it comes to the psychology of wrestling.

I realize people feel a complex way about me and how I handle things compared to what I do in the ring.

In ECW, hardcore wrestling wasn't done just for the fun of it. It was done for a purpose, for a reason. And for me, it was done to exist and produce a revenue for my family.

Tito Santana was one of the hardest working guys in the business. When Tito used to make that comeback, the people went crazy because he had so much fire. He had so much damn energy. He could just go and go and go.

I guarantee you, 9 out of 10 people in the world wouldn't step in the ring and do what I do, nor could they. I think we have one of the hardest jobs in the world.

When you are dealing with Broken Matt Hardy, and the Brother Nero, and the Broken Hardyz, anything is possible. Anything.

Broken Matt Hardy was born in Impact Wrestling and I think he had great memories.

I was actually a big Owen Hart fan, but I wasn't a Bret Hart fan at all growing up.

Bret Hart is my cousin, I'm told. Didn't know that until I was, I don't know, 28, 25.

John Cena is like the 2010 version of Bret Hart. Fans see him as a real decent, upstanding human being.

Germany has a deep respect for the Hart family, especially Bret 'The Hitman' Hart.

Bret 'the Hitman' Hart from circa, say, 1997, the U.S.-bashing Bret Hart, would have to lay a beat down on John Cena, I think.

I lived with Stu Hart and the rest of the Hart's. So, I could go to the Hart Dungeon any time I wanted.

I wrestled as a 90-pounder, and I wrestled in the 107-pound class in my first year. I had something inside of me. I could not stand not to compete. And I don't know why... I don't know what that's all about. But that's deep inside of Doug Harvey.

When I was in college and high school so I had it in my head that I can coach high school wrestling. Honestly, wrestling was my end all and be all, I had all my chips in that hat, that was it for me.

When they hated me, it was hell. I used to fight the crowd before I even started my matches. It was crazy.

I always hated when I had to do the promos, especially because I got to push their agenda and try to tell you that this championship match is more important than anything in the world to me. Come on. No, it's not.