Quotes About Spectacle

A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrica! event.

All the competitors knew the importance of Halloween Havoc. It was the WCW equivalent to SummerSlam.

We like people who come to our gigs to dress sharp and to impress.

Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers's Centre Georges Pompidou of 1971-1977 - the true prototype of the modern museum as popular architectural spectacle - wound up costing so much more than planned that the French government solved the shortfall by cutting support for several regional museums.

When you look at martial arts films, the later ones became more and more exaggerated. It's like, wow, is martial arts only a show?

I don't like to watch train wrecks.

As great a spectacle as WrestleMania is, there's something to be said for seeing a guy you like telling stories from the heart from 20 feet away.

With Undertaker and I, we only had one singles match leading up to WrestleMania XXIV, and we realized we had something. We knew going into WrestleMania it was going to be cool. And it was.

Hulk Hogan, The Undertaker, Shawn Michales... the list goes on and on of great guys who made WrestleMania what it is.

Imagine you put Brock Lesnar/Samoa Joe and Roman Reigns/John Cena on WrestleMania. Sold.

There are times when you got to put a little 'extra' in, especially on a card at WrestleMania or SummerSlam because it's no time to hold anything back. You have to pull out all of the stops.

It goes - for me - WrestleMania, Royal Rumble, Summerslam. The big three.

SummerSlam is always huge. I look at it like it is Wrestlemania.

WrestleMania is amazing.

WrestleMania is one of those events where you want to put the most different, most extravagant, most exotic show you can out there.

If your heart's not pumping premium on WrestleMania Sunday, then I don't understand what you're doing at WrestleMania.

I was a part of the largest WrestleMania ever, so I know how to feed off the energy from the crowd in my fights.

WrestleMania's the accumulation of a lot of things. All the shareholders come in for all the meetings with the suits and everything.

WrestleMania is a major event and that's an understatement obviously, but it's a major event from the standpoint that many other companies use WrestleMania as a source of creating new revenue.

I think anytime you have an event for the first time ever, like a Super Bowl or WrestleMania or UFC, as the years go by, everything becomes more polished with promotion and bigger stars.

To be a part of a 'WrestleMania' is so amazing, it's the biggest show that we put on besides 'SummerSlam.'

I said we would have WrestleMania on Mars one day. I think that would be a match to see.

I don't want to spoil this for anybody but wrestling, sports entertainment, is 'pre-determined.'

I don't like to have gimmicks. I don't like to have gadgets and stuff. I just like to go out there and entertain the fans by wrestling.