Quotes About Wrestling

When I first broke in, I wanted to be the best technical wrestler on the planet.

I hate when someone gets the better of me. A Division 1 wrestler comes in and takes me down and I get frustrated.

When the script for 'The Wrestler' kept coming to me I said, This movie is so good if you put me in the film as a wrestler people are going to say, 'No credibility, Hulk Hogan isn't a good actor,' whatever Hollywood thinks of me.

I like to think I've always been a good wrestler.

My father died when I was 15, and my dad was a professional wrestler but as well as a national amateur champion at the University of Nebraska.

I wanted to be a wrestler since before I can remember.

I never was an amateur wrestler.

Just because you have a good athletic background doesn't make you necessarily a good wrestler. Because it takes a lot to be a good professional wrestler.

There wasn't one defining moment that I said, 'I wanna be a wrestler.' It was just something that was always inside me.

If it was one person I could have a bout with, it would be Jack Pye, the Doncaster Panther. A mythical wrestler obviously from Doncaster who lived in Blackpool.

When I was really little, I wanted to be a wrestler so I could be like the girls I looked up to. My brother then told me that 'You don't want to be like your idols; you want to grow up and be better than them.' To this day, that's the best piece of advice I've ever gotten.

Impossible for wrestler to become doctor or the mechanic. All they know is the wrestling and forever they do this job.

When you're training to be a pro wrestler, you don't think about these things like video games and action figures and things like that, but when those opportunities come along, it sort of validates all the hard work that you put into the ring.

My dad used to be a Greco-Roman wrestler, and he was Norwegian champion six years on the bounce from 1966 to 1971. But I never saw him wrestle. I've only read the clippings.

I'm different than your everyday average girl, but... I like to be taken more seriously as a wrestler.

Without Ring of Honor, I wouldn't be the wrestler I am or have the confidence needed to continue to grow in this ever-challenging sport.

You can't just run through a cookie cutter press and crank out a wrestler that looks like Bill Goldberg.

I didn't know what a good technical wrestler was when I was little - it was people that made me scream or boo or cheer.

Being a pro wrestler can be kind of difficult sometimes. We have a perception about what we do - and I totally understand the perception, because we're a weekly episodic program, and we're having fun all the time, so people think that's kind of the most talented thing I could do.

They don't allow a lot of stalling in college, but that's a contradiction, because at the same time they give points for riding the tar out of a guy. And it's too soft on what moves you can use. If you start to twist an arm, it's illegal, if you twist a leg it's illegal. There's no way you can turn a good wrestler over without some pain.

The whole journey of being a wrestler is also a journey of finding yourself and who you are. If it feels natural to you, it's natural to me because I'm just being myself every time I'm out there.

When I was a wrestler, my job was mostly looking mean and throwing punches and kicks.

I came out of my mother's womb wanting to be a professional wrestler. But then notoriety and stardom happened, and I started getting cocky.

Any '90s baby, The Rock or Stone Cold Steve Austin had to be your favorite wrestler.