Quotes About Wrestler

I feel like, for me, I've become smarter. I've become a more intelligent wrestler. I've become a more intelligent performer, and I think that shows.

Many hotels, I just sat there and - I call it the silent scream - I don't know why, you just sit there, and tears will just come down, and you'll just sit there for hours, man. There's no place to turn, and when you do turn, who cares? You're just a dumb professional wrestler.

When I was struggling to get recognition as a wrestler, I faced innumerable hardships. I even slept on the ring itself after finishing my practice. Those days, I did not have a house to live.

I am a real Iranian, and I'm in entertainment but still I was a 100 per-cent wrestler.

The Vince McMahon tell me I am the best Middle Eastern wrestler ever. He tell me I need new name to show how strong I am like the iron. He want me to become like the Shah. He call me the Sheik.

I leave the Iran because bad things happening there when I was greatest Greco-Roman wrestler in the world.

Being a wrestler is not an easy life. It's very hard on the body. I loved it, but it is a hard life to live.

If you look at the Intercontinental Champion, historically, that has always belonged to the best of the best in-ring talent, the best wrestler, whatever you want to call it, that came out night after night, produced night after night - and that will be me.

It's not every day you get to play a wrestler. The experience of playing one in 'Godha' has made me stronger and it has given me immense confidence.

The only film I've enjoyed starring a wrestler was Mickey Rourke in 'The Wrestler.'

My very favorite wrestler of all time was Andre the Giant. He was sort of like my best friend, believe it or not, and I have a picture in 'People' magazine of me sitting on his lap when I was 8 years old after 'WrestleMania I.'

My favorite wrestler growing up was Bret 'The Hitman' Hart.

My favorite wrestler growing up was Dean Malenko. He was a very technical wrestler, and when I trained with Shawn Michaels, he wasn't that kind of a technical wrestler. So, when I finally met Regal in 2001, he was that kind of a wrestler, and all of a sudden, I could ask him things, and he would know what I was talking about and how to do it.

If you say John Smith is the greatest wrestler in Oklahoma history, now that's big.

I wasn't sure what I was getting into when I signed on to work with a wrestler.

I don't know of any wrestler who hasn't, at one time or another, been with a fan. One time I met a woman at a match in Tennessee, and afterward we went to a little roadside motel. We checked in, went to the room, and enjoyed each other for an hour or so.

I do things that are very uncharacteristic of a normal workout routine. I hate cardio. Absolutely hate it. I grew up as a wrestler, so it was constant cardio, cardio, cardio.

As a professional wrestler, it's not my position to be the booker, to formulate a match, unless you're asked to do that.

I was a true wrestler. I was a Division I national champion. I came into the business wanting one thing and one thing only, and that was to be the champion, and I wasn't going to let anybody stand in my way. I think there was one guy that had a problem with that, and that was Undertaker.

I'm a character and a sports entertainer and a wrestler, but I'm also a father and a husband and a provider.

I just remember that when I started at NXT, I had no character. I had nothing. I was just so excited to be here and just to be a wrestler.

I made the final decision to become a professional wrestler because I was able to look at Sting and what he was able to do inside and outside the ring.

I don't want to be the kind of wrestler that has to do it because he needs the money.

Ric Flair, The Freebirds, and The Rockers were great influences in my decision to become a wrestler.