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Quotes About Wrestling

I am very much a perfectionist, so if I were to turn heel, I'd want to be the nastiest girls out there, where the people hated me.
~ Mickie James
For me, I've always told myself, 'I can only do me in the ring.' When I go out there and perform, I can only do what Sasha Banks can do.
~ Sasha Banks
Professional wresting is like performance art. It truly is. You're taking the crowd on a ride, on an emotional roller coaster.
~ Stephanie McMahon
Working with Lucha and Mexico and all the independent wrestling I've done has made me an exponentially better performer.
~ John Morrison
As a performer, I need to change in the ring, to be a little bit more aggressive and go about things in a different way rather than Bayley following the rules all the time.
~ Bayley
I'm an artist, a performer... There's an art to what we do to the wrestling... I don't want to really fight anybody.
~ Mickie James
I'm the only person in wrestling that realizes I'm too old to do this anymore, and that's why I'm not a performer and I'm not going to be on 'ROH.'
~ Jim Cornette
I always give credit to Scotty 2 Hotty. He is an amazing teacher. I was in his class for, I want to say three months and I learned so much and he helped me grow, not only as a performer, but as a person. He was always there for me.
~ Rhea Ripley
I think any company that gives Samoa Joe an opportunity is going to benefit and be happy. I think Joe is a great performer.
~ Christopher Daniels
Kurt Angle is an Olympic gold medalist, one of the greatest in-ring performers of all-time.
~ Paul Heyman
I loved all the wrestling going on in the ring - I wouldn't be into it as much if I didn't care about that - but I always had an infatuation with the performers and the entertainers.
~ Enzo Amore
I was a huge fan of Rick Rude and Arn Anderson. There's many guys, many performers in the past who turned me into the sports entertainer I am today.
~ Bobby Roode
I would like to face everyone on the Impact roster. It is filled with amazing performers, I would be honored to share the ring with any of them.
~ Tessa Blanchard
We have some of the best in-ring performers in the world, but they are also some of the best characters.
~ Tony Khan
I always go back to my days in NXT and look at my feud with Samoa Joe. That was one of the best periods of growth for me.
~ Finn Balor
I think Nexus is one of the favorite periods of my career, and I think we had a lot of success, and I think people responded to it really well.
~ Wade Barrett
There are so many things that have evolved since I wrestled. They don't have periods anymore. They have rounds... it confuses the younger demographic.
~ Kurt Angle
TNA has had a lot of great periods - Hulk Hogan even came in, but I don't think he was beneficial to TNA. They spent a lot of money on him, but made a lot of mistakes. They should have saved that money for me.
~ Matt Hardy
I've had hundreds and hundreds of concussions, but I don't think that I have any permanent damage. A lot of my peers do.
~ Rob Van Dam
I'm a lot more focused on character development and showing more of my character's emotions and persona inside the ring rather than just going move after move after move.
~ Bobby Roode
The Spartans] ordered the maidens to exercise themselves with wrestling, running, throwing the quoit, and casting the dart, to the end that the fruit they conceived might, in strong and healthy bodies, take firmer root and find better growth, and withal that they, with this greater vigour, might be the more able to undergo the pains of childbearing.
~ Plutarch
Once being hard pressed in wrestling, and fearing to be thrown, he got the hand of his antagonist to his mouth, and bit it with all his force; and when the other loosed his hold presently, and said, "You bite, Alcibiades, like a woman." "No," replied he, "like a lion." Another
~ Plutarch
On 'Raw,' I'm the big mean girl who goes and beats everybody up; on 'Total Divas,' they will see a softer, vulnerable side of me that definitely isn't seen on 'Raw.'
~ Nia Jax
Barring wacky nonsense, I'm going to end my career in a Ring of Honor ring. And that to me is fine. It's poetic justice.
~ Christopher Daniels