Wrestling Quotes · Page 378

There are many moments during a match when you are tense, wrestling with yourself. Tennis is a lesson in self-control.

— Rafael Nadal

I grew up watching the careers of Tyson and Bowe. I always wanted to follow in their footsteps in becoming a world…

— Shannon Briggs

When Joe Silva called me with the Trigg fight, I said, 'Hell yeah.' It's a matchup that excites me a lot.

— Matt Serra

I decided to be a smarter fighter. I already knew I was tough, so if I was smart and tough, I was…

— Cub Swanson

Whenever I fight, whenever you see me fight, I work a lot off of angles, using my kicks a lot.

— Stephen Thompson

I hope Seth Rollins becomes the safest, best wrestler in the world. And I wish him all the luck in the world.

— Bret Hart

I always come on the ground with a smile on the face, but inside, I'm always ready to fight and try to…

— Imran Tahir

I don't like to predict the fights. People can do that. They can predict my fights, but I never do that.

— Joanna Jedrzejczyk

I don't know any real jiu-jitsu or judo or anything. I do movie kung fu. With that, you can fake a punch,…

— Keanu Reeves

I lost an amateur fight where it was supposed to be my last amateur fight before going pro and people were like,…

— Cody Garbrandt

I tried to be the greatest boxer in the world and a good parent, too. I had instant feedback on my success…

— Muhammad Ali

The fact remains, in the wrestling industry there is a very high occurrence of untimely deaths for a lot of different reasons.…

— Nancy Grace

Of course, I wrestled in Windsor for Scott D'Amore's promotion way back in my very early days. That was at the very,…

— Gail Kim

I greatly appreciate that people would like to see me have one more match or comeback or, 'Daniel Bryan got cleared, so…

— Edge

There are only a few people in WWE that I would trust having a good match with to just call it in…

— Shelton Benjamin

While I was working for the WWE in 2013 and 2014, TV deals had come to me, movie deals had come to…

— Wade Barrett

I think its so good for boxing when a new guy or new blood as we call it, makes a big statement.

— George Foreman

Mayweather does tease people all the time. He likes to get under your skin. That's what he's like.

— Amir Khan

Fighting, to me, seems barbaric. I don't really like it. I enjoy out-thinking another man and out-maneuvering him, but I still don't…

— Sugar Ray Robinson

The streets are tough but sport, and boxing especially, has put me on the right path in my life.

— Anthony Yarde

I'm interested in any light-middleweight. If they've got a belt, even if they think they're the hardest in the division, I can…

— Kell Brook

I almost wish I hadn't been painted in such a light that I was just hardcore and that I couldn't deliver a…

— Daffney

I sort of seen a few iterations of NXT, but the one constant throughout is it's a competitive locker room in a…

— Pete Dunne

I thought after that fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao, if this was supposed to be fight of the decade,…

— Naseem Hamed

My objective was to hurt the other fighters. I wanted to hurt them. I wanted to be merciless. Man, I was a…

— Mike Tyson

The only reason I lost to Aldo Montoya was the intoxicating fumes there were coming off his body from being around Jake…

— Jerry Lawler

Tito Santana is like a cue-ball. The more you strike him, the more english you get out of him.

— Bobby Heenan

My relationship with Joe Silva has always been him saying 'hey I want you to fight this day' and it's like alright…

— Travis Browne

I grew up a huge wrestling fan. My grandfather, who was a minister and retired when I was a young kid in…

— John Layfield

I am training so hard because I know now everybody looks at me, everybody wants to take this belt, but I'm not…

— Islam Makhachev

I do find myself drawn more to pieces that I feel are wrestling with the way that we're living now, what we're…

— Edward Norton

“Speed in the martial arts is not the True Way. Concerning speed, we say that something is fast or slow depending on…

— Miyamoto Musashi

I think I have learnt more about business from fighting than anything else - from any book, from any, like - fighting…

— Arvind Gupta

I'm 28, and for the next six or seven years my goal is to try to fight for the yellow jersey. If…

— Chris Froome

To have a Japanese wrestler standing as the face of professional wrestling, there's only one person for that spot, and it's me.

— Kazuchika Okada

I know to fight someone like Aldo, this is a great opportunity and I want to make everything I can of it…

— Marlon Vera

I will do my best, and I promise I will give this guy a fight, and I have to win this fight.

— Manny Pacquiao

Mayweather Promotions - we are the past, the present, and the future of sports and entertainment, and everybody knows Mayweather's pay is…

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr

Hey Mark Henry, where are your gold medals? We all know that if Mark Henry won a gold medal he'd just take…

— Jerry Lawler

I think staying away from wrestling for two years with injury and the movie, I lost my focus.

— Geeta Phogat