Quotes About Performance

If anybody dared say wrestling was fake, you'd punch 'em. And you never used the word show. If you used the word show it was an insult.

Most people don't know that wrestling came out of the circus.

There are no tough guys in wrestling.

In professional wrestling, I think that they want you to be bigger than life. It's almost like an over-acting type thing - whereas on the big screen, you're 35 feet and they've got a close-up of you to put it on the screen in the movie house. At 35 feet, it's more subtlety than the overboard drama that we do in pro wrestling.

This isn't a competitive sport. Wrestling is not the NFL or the NHL. It's not really sports. It's entertainment. And in order to be entertaining, you have to create emotion. And you can't create emotion by simply having a wrestling match.

I could never see myself getting in a ring and wrestling Zack Ryder.

Well, actually, the Second City thing came about because I was taking a few improv classes there. I thought that the improv classes would help with my wrestling career, which it has.

Everybody's out there wrestling like a robot.

Believe it or not, I kind of went into professional wrestling so I could get an avenue into acting.

Amateur wrestling, you can go by instinct. Pro wrestling, you have to memorize, and you have to go by what moves you said you were going to do. Sometimes you have to feel the crowd and do the moves at the right time and know the timing and tell a good story.

We take pride in making our Knockouts Division about wrestling, not about looking pretty.

I should think wrestling is the most positive thing in the world. The fact is, behind the scenes, there's stuff that goes on that's bush-league. It's laughable.

There's no question, I guarantee you, that you will see more NFL players getting into wrestling. They have the personality for it.

I love doing funny promos like the ones I did wrestling Rey Mysterio.

I'm in professional wrestling, which is what I do for a living. I coordinate stunts. I memorize them.

I think wrestling is the one that presents theater for people who want to see some theater but don't necessarily have to dress up or be quiet while they're watching.

The best ones - Hulk Hogan believes in Hulkamania. It's not a thing he's selling here. It's real. He knows it's real because he goes to the Mall Of America and everybody goes insane, right? Wrestling is real. Those characters are real.

Those who have not seen wrestling before have probably tuned in to 'Lucha Underground' and go, 'Whoa! This is a TV series turned into wrestling.'

When you, as a fan, go to see a wrestling show, you don't know what the predetermined outcome is. You take a seat and enjoy the ride - and it's a hell of a ride.

To me, wrestling is just as cool as it ever was.

Early, when I first started wrestling, I wanted to be a combination of Sting and the Ultimate Warrior: The Ultimate Warrior's craziness and weird personality and Sting's coolness and the way he carried himself to the ring. But then later on, when it came to physicality and athleticism, Shawn Michaels topped the cake.

I always felt like the wrestling business was better off with two viable mainstream promotions.

When you talk about Mexican culture, it's wrestling and soccer.

I was obsessed with it, and then I learned more about professional wrestling and how the beauty that does exist in it is truly an art form.