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Wrestling Quotes by Mick Foley

52 Wrestling quotes by Mick Foley

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Mick Foley talks about the loyalty he feels for wrestlers who risk their bodies in the ring. He notes how some wrestlers just want the spotlight, while others see the business as a necessary evil. He also praises fearless performers like Shane McMahon.

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I would rather hurt a man...than love a woman.

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Nakamura, to me, is a main event star.

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Yeah, that's a good point.

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I can't jump high, so I jump from high places.

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This is for all the little Stingers

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Bray Wyatt is one of the most captivating characters to come down the pike in ages.

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

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I wanted to be a baseball player, but I became fascinated with wrestling as a teenager.

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Shane McMahon had that tremendous match at WrestleMania with the Undertaker. He's fearless.

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In a sense, I think the WWE Universe has become one of the greatest characters of the modern era.

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If the WWF was about talent, Taka Michinoku would have been WWF champion

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I cannot look back and say I did everything I wanted to do in TNA.

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Welcome to Anaheim, California, my fellow broken-down, washed-up wrestler.

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My goal in wrestling was always to take people on a journey to get a reaction and make people feel like they…

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It might surprise people to know that the person who convinced me to write the third memoir - 'The Hardcore Diaries' -…

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I lived in Alabama for a while during the dying days of the Continental Wrestling Federation. I lived in Montgomery and traveled…

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Probably better than anybody, I realized that I could have easily been one of those guys who was not seen as being…

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

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Everything's relative. I don't think any new pursuit will be as difficult as trying to break into wrestling 25 years ago.

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I'm still a big wrestling fan. I buy the Pay-Per-Views. I think that gives me the right to speak out just like…

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Without knocking Impact Wrestling, your contribution was largely limited to what you could do in the TV show. WWE is a bigger…

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I really have to accept the fact that I'm not a young man anymore, that I've probably taken one lifetime's worth of…

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I can look back now and say, 'Aw, that was a little dumb taking huge bumps onto concrete before a couple of…

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My greatest personal Survivor Series moment was facing The Rock in 1998 and having Mr. McMahon turn on me. That set into…

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Even though 'SmackDown' has been kind of like the Internet darling, I believe that if they had three hours instead of two,…

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Edge goes out every night, and not just on pay per views; every night, Edge goes out there with the intention of…

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There was a time when Vader and I had a main event Pay-Per-View match, back in 1993 at Halloween Havoc, and I…

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In 1999, I had my back against the wall, and WWE had a ghostwriter working on an autobiography for me. He was…

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Everybody in wrestling is looking at the information coming in on concussions. Everyone from the NFL to the WWE to TNA to…

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We believe that our RAW team will, basically, exploit Shane's McMahon lack of regular wrestling.

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I really enjoy watching the younger talent like The Shield rise up on the card and make a huge impact.

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I always welcome being part of something positive in WWE.

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I don't have much choice but to be a WWE fan in my house.

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By the time I got to WWE, I had a lot more confidence and willingness to speak up.

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On the 'SmackDown' side, A.J. Styles really has been phenomenal.

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I thought about going to WCW but then I realized I wasn't old enough.

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A lot of my loyalty is to the wrestlers - the guys who put their heart and health on the line.

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Triple H was one of the main proponents of women's wrestling.

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It's funny: wrestlers and comics bond over remembering their best shows and their absolute worst shows.

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I think what limited my role when I was WWE commissioner in 2000 was my reluctance to get back in the ring…

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My mother wanted me to be a writer, which I have ended up taking a long road round to.

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I just feel like there's a better mind-to-pen connection for me than a mind-to-keyboard connection.

I do some things just to entertain myself, and I figure that part of the audience will be entertained as well.

Edge goes out every night, and not just on pay per views; every night, Edge goes out there with the intention of stealing the…

A lot of my loyalty is to the wrestlers - the guys who put their heart and health on the line.

There are guys who thrive completely on the action in the ring and see the promotion as a necessary evil, whereas I think it's…

I was told that the fact that I had nothing but good things to say about Judith Regan distinguished me. I enjoyed writing for…

You really can't go wrong. There's no bad New York pizza, as far as I know.

I can still remember the first time I heard Tori Amos. It was the fall of 1993, and I was in the back of…

I think I had four concussions throughout my career that were diagnosed, and I guess that I've had seven more. But the fact that…

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I remember the first time I smelled B.O. was at a cross-country meet. But it wasn't unpleasant, in a strange way. That's what you…