Wrestling Quotes · Page 389

If you watch the movie 'Queenpins,' I believe it is the first film in Hollywood to feature AEW in the film.

— Paul Walter Hauser

I was a big Hart Foundation guy as a kid. Bret was my favorite wrestler. I loved their dynamic.

— Drew McIntyre

I had never thought about being a professional fighter but meeting Pat [ Militich ] and the guys just pushed me in that direction.

— Robbie Lawler

“In my life, I’ve learned when to let shit go and when to fight. This, babe, what we got, I’ll fight for.”

— Kristen Ashley

I was able to slowly climb to the top of the wrestling business thanks to the principles I learned in junior high…

— Bob Backlund

He's an old good fighter, he's an intelligent fighter but I wouldn't say he's the best I've ever fought.

— Joe Calzaghe

To be present - really, truly present - in art and life requires empathizing with uncertainty and wrestling with risk.

— Andy Greenwald

I had a cousin who dated someone in CWF, so I was traveling to shows by age 10 or 11. I got…

— Adam Page

Aw, man, it's huge to actually have a platform and let the world see Reality of Wrestling as well as to be…

— Booker T

I'm not a fighter, but I would love to be a boxer because I love the courage and toughness. I mean, there…

— Mark McGrath

People ask me about Orlando Salido. My answer is that I fight for Top Rank and will take on who they schedule…

— Vasyl Lomachenko

The move into K-1 was very big at the time. It was very special to me. I liked it. It was different.…

— Alistair Overeem

The cool thing about pro wrestling is we do a lot more acting as far as characters in general than MMA. I…

— Kurt Angle

Fighting, for me, is not a career - it's an opportunity. I'm going to take full advantage of it and do it…

— Eddie Alvarez

The fans pay our wages and I want to give back to the fans. I have been telling them for ages that…

— Kell Brook

I've learned that, bizarrely, I enjoy having a fight. Obviously nobody likes getting hit, but I don't have a problem with it.…

— James Haskell

At middleweight, everyone has a height and reach advantage on me and while I feel like I can still compete with the…

— Kelvin Gastelum

There are probably one million dudes in America called Kevin Johnson, and beating one of them doesn't make you an all-time great…

— David Haye

I would have been a black belt in Karate much sooner, but the store was sold out of Sharpie markers

— Tamika-leeigh

I have always loved wrestling and grew up watching it - my earliest memories include watching Hulk Hogan.

— Sami Zayn

I was part of Evolve as they were beginning to make their name, and I was lucky enough to help it grow…

— Drew McIntyre

The media can make boxers, controls who makes it big and who doesn’t. They can build up fighters or knock them down.

— Lennox Lewis

The truth of it is, as cool as it would be to have a clean one-punch knockout, I like fighting people. I…

— Gerald Meerschaert

I have a lot of big names on my side that I'm willing to fight, and I'm pretty sure they are willing…

— Errol Spence Jr

This is where I started, this is where I'm going to end, this is what's made me who I am today as…

— Chad Mendes

That works for me, that's fine, but I don't need a belt to fight Dominic Breazeale. If he wants it, he can…

— Dillian Whyte

I am not fighting a hopeless fight. People who have fought in real fights don't, as a rule.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Just because I wasn't with my brother in the WWE, that doesn't mean I wasn't in the business.

— Booker T

I think a lot of guys just go out there and fight, or they learn a real basic way of striking. There…

— Gerald Meerschaert

Changing over to the UFC, I was trying to force myself to thinking, like, 'This was it; this is the most important…

— Shayna Baszler

Ray Sefo is a former K-1 guy that I've always respected. He knows how to take care of athletes.

— Fabricio Werdum

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

— The Iron Sheik

I'm a wrestling fan - before I was a wrestler, I was a wrestling fan. I like watching wrestling.

— William Regal

My first four fights in amateur at middleweight, and the first four professional were at welterweight. And I just kind of went…

— Alexander Volkanovski

I'm a southpaw and a counter-puncher. I tend to box on the back foot and catch my opponents when they come forward.

— Luke Campbell

You're not going to win mental warfare with me. I am one of the mentally toughest guys, if not the mentally toughest…

— Michael Chiesa

Michael Chandler is so desperate to get this fight. He's almost begging. He's almost on his knees, 'McGregor fight me!' I just…

— Renato Moicano

Honestly, I'm destroying people in sparring, but for some reason I haven't been able to show my full potential in the UFC.

— Artem Lobov

Now, training fighters is like trying to catch fish. It's not the strength but the technique.

— Angelo Dundee

As much as I love the business and I love my fans, I don't want to be at every WrestleMania.

— Stone Cold Steve Austin