Quotes About Tradition

In a digital age, I still love sending and receiving cards, hand-writing notes, and wrapping gifts.

Even my grandmother would tell me that girls should not wrestle, it's a man's game.

I've got 8 and 10 year old kids telling me about the match I had with Savage at WrestleMania III and that was 30 years before they were even born. But with the magic of the Internet, their dad tells them to watch a little bit of what they used to watch... It amazes me that we're passing it on from generation to generation.

My dad was a wrestler, so I grew up old school.

Even in terms of the technical stuff there's a very traditional British flavor that comes out. Our characters are influenced by our culture so there's definitely something unique about British wrestlers in the U.S.

My father left a bit of his life with me. He gave me a gift, as did so many other wrestlers, like Mike DiBiase, Bob Geigel, Verne Gagne and Gene Kiniski. They all left me with something.

It is one thing that I get a lot of joy out of, and that is passing the torch. Some stuff I show young wrestlers, people haven't seen in 15 years. I show it to them and the gratification I get is when I see them do it out there in a match.

I still believe in old school values, I still believe in hard work, I still believe in wrestling, and people have showed that's what they want to see.

In Mexico, wrestling is part of the cultural fabric. The guys wear masks and they are real-life superheroes.

I grew up in a town with a great wrestling tradition. Then I was a team sport queen in high school; I played softball, volleyball, and soccer. Oh, and I also did ski racing.

In the '60s and '70s and early '80s, the trainers would grind you, and eventually they would break something - they would break an ankle in ways that it would heal. It was just the way of the business, to ensure that you learned respect for wrestling.

Many of those who have paid the ultimate price for freedom have come through the wrestling ranks. We need to honor them and win this decision to have wrestling - the world's oldest sport - remain a part of the most prestigious athletic competition in the world, the Olympics.

Wrestling in Japan is very much sports based.

I come from a big Italian family, and I grew up around wrestling.

My dad was always a great talker on the microphone, so I tried to learn a lot from him in that way, and he's very old-school. He built the wrestling family that we have.

Pro wrestling has always been ingrained into American culture. It was one of the first things that was ever on television, so everybody watched it. Countless people tell me, 'I got into wrestling because my grandfather watched it.' It was always there.

In our family, we don't know why there are so many of us in wrestling. We think about it at the dinner table when we have big family reunions, and it just comes from a passion and love we have for the industry.

Wrestling will be around forever. It's been around thousands of years. It's going to be around till the end of time.

The South is where wrestling was birthed.

Memphis is like the heart of wrestling.

I'm a second-generation professional wrestler. My family, the Rhodes family, has been wrestling for 50-odd years.

I used to be fond of Indian arm wrestling.

Wrestling is one of the last truly rebellious American things left.

Out-marriage is an issue religious groups have been wrestling with for some time. Of course men and women fall in love. Of course it's not always convenient to their respective cultural and spiritual norms.