Quotes About Training

I was a wrestler and now I teach jiu-jitsu, but they're obviously different in many ways. However, they do kind of translate.

After college I started training to be a wrestler which led me to the WWE.

I've known Woodley for nine-plus years, ten-plus years. We've worked out together plenty. He's one of the guys who used to slam me all around the place. I was at 155, he was at 170 pounds and he was just the wrestler that is a superpower. So that was one of the dudes that got my wrestling a little better from going with guys like that.

I know Cormier is a wrestler so you really got to get them hips down on him so I've been working them hips really good.

I am a Division 1 wrestler.

Ben Askren, he is a very strong wrestler, probably the best in the division, I think. But then again, when you're in the fight game like this, some of the other things you have to improve. It can't just be wrestling all the time. You got to continue to work on your striking, get better at that.

When I wrestled, I always considered myself an athlete and a wrestler.

Growing up as a wrestler, especially in practice, I think you get used to competing without much of a crowd around.

My father is the reason I'm a wrestler today. He was trained by Jim 'The Anvil' Neidhart, and competed under the names Billy the Kid and Elvis Wesley on the Florida Independent scene.

I'm a wrestler, a very polished wrestler and some of my best attributes in wrestling are my scrambling ability and my clinch.

I don't classify myself as a wrestler, I'm a grappler.

A wrestler will always be a wrestler, and they will always go back to the basics.

When I first started training to be a wrestler I was also trying my hand at acting. I was trying to get into the Chicago theater scene. It was tougher to get into the theater scene than I thought and I almost gave wrestling a try as an afterthought.

I'm a good wrestler.

Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange.

Boxers box to get ready to fight; wrestlers wrestle. We have so much we have to do to get ready, but fighting is one of them.

You've got to stay in pretty good shape to be a pro wrestler, and all the TNA wrestlers get a bit nervous when I wrestle them because they're afraid I'll tire them out, but the Olympics is a whole different level.

There should be more funding and support for young and upcoming wrestlers.

When I got a little older, like, 10 or 11, my dad would run a training school every month, teaching people how to become wrestlers. I would get in the ring now and again and mess around with one of my brothers, and he'd teach me some stuff.

In the wrestling world, we say the Judo guys are just the leftover wrestlers that couldn't make the wrestling team.

India has plenty of talent. If they are imparted with proper training, the country will surely produce scores of wrestlers, better than me. I want more and more Indians to participate in the game.

I've trained with real, world-class wrestlers.

I honestly think that we're getting away from the basic structure of wrestling and it causes wrestlers' careers to come up short because of injuries.

When I see wrestlers fight, they train a lot of boxing because they don't want to end up on bottom.