Quotes About Industry

Wrestling is a business: the more promotions the better, more opportunities for wrestlers to work.

Unions are something wrestlers have been talking about for many years. We would probably wish there was a union, but you have to understand wrestling is not a regulated sport.

The AEW roster has much bigger stars and better wrestlers frankly than the NXT roster.

Impact has some of the most exciting wrestlers and performers and some of the greatest people in our industry.

I think women's wrestling has had a hard time because of GLOW. When GLOW came out, it looked like somebody was ripping off the male industry. Everybody made fun of it. WOW is a great product. It's produced right. It's got a little story line, and it's got good-looking girls who can work and can talk.

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.

There's so many documentaries out there right now and everything's exposing wrestling.

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

It would be a huge loss to the wrestling industry and for those of us that have made our living in this industry to lose someone like Ric Flair.

I try to keep up with everything - all wrestling across the board. I want to know what the competition is doing, what the up-n-comers are doing.

When I created the Cruiserweight division in WCW, nobody called them cruiserweights in the industry at that point. That was a boxing term, not a wrestling term, but I did not want to call them junior heavyweights, light heavyweights, or anything that made them sound diminutive. I wanted it to sound special and cool.

Wrestling is cyclical. And if you look at the '80s, it had an unbelievable run, and then it just fell down. '90s had the biggest run ever because of the Monday Night Wars.

Sitting front row with my little brother, my older brother, and my dad's wife at the time - seeing 80,000 people at the Citrus Bowl emotionally pouring their hearts out watching my dad retire - I didn't even grasp what he meant to the industry. I didn't even fully grasp it until I started wrestling myself.

I reached a point where nothing scares me in this industry, mainly because I grew up in it. My earliest memory is 4 years old, getting in a wrestling ring.

Something happened in 1997 that changed the whole industry, at least for the next five, six, or seven years. It wasn't about the 24-inch arms and the cartoon characters anymore. It was about the wrestling and what we were doing in the ring physically.

As long as the attitude is to only show the sheet metal, then automobile advertising will continue to be wretched.

I find it so funny how people that don't write the music, and have no involvement in it, can make such huge decisions on behalf of artists.

The problem with making movies is that you have to devote so much of your life to fawning and flattering the men in suits, whereas that doesn't happen in books. You just go and write, and then the book comes out.

As a writer, you're not even at the party when you work in film. At best, you're the one laying out the canapes.

I worked as a writer, lead designer, and creative director in the game industry.

It's common procedure in the industry for people with little or no professional writing experience to get a book deal because of their profile, and then hire a writer.

Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.

Writers can feel pretty powerless in the big corporate world of publishing, but sometimes our greatest power is the ability to say 'no.'

The greatest thing about having done 'Orange' are the doors that have opened for me, and people have been able to see me, like the executives and the casting directors - also, all of the fantastic directors and writers for independent films.