Wrestling Quotes · Page 376

I wasn't fighting because I was a sportsman. I was fighting because I had no other way. I didn't have a career.…

— Frank Shamrock

You fought fair. If the other guy wants to fight and you knocked him out, you did your best for him. You…

— Jack Kirby

I let my fighting do the talking, I don't have to put on great show and dance to make it bigger than…

— Cub Swanson

I'm not a celebrity trainer. I don't have my own line of DVDs, but I'm a fighter and have everything to prove.

— Cara Castronuova

Back in my day in the WWF oh.. the WW EEEEE, we had it all. We had Garbage men, we had clowns,…

— Shawn Michaels

I am really lucky to have Jeff. He is my best friend in the whole world, not only my brother.

— Matt Hardy

I've had many fights, but this is the biggest stage I've ever fought in. The UFC is the best.

— Stephen Thompson

I feel like I can beat anybody in the world, but I also believe in paying your dues and proving your worth.

— Gerald Meerschaert

Let's say we're rolling, I'll try to submit you. If we're sparring, I'll try to dominate, to take you down, to move.…

— Vicente Luque

There's always the pressure to win. That never goes away, but being a main event, I want to go out there and…

— Dustin Poirier

Panamanian boxing is unique - it's very musical. It's almost like a dance. It has a lot to do with being in…

— Edgar Ramirez

Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman…

— Roland Joffe

Aldo needed to feel McGregor out. Coming right at him ran into McGregor's game. I thought he'd start by taking him down…

— Chuck Liddell

I didn't mind when Paul Wight came to me and said WWE offered him $1 million a year for ten years. I…

— Eric Bischoff

My years in the WWE, a lot of stuff came out that you're not even aware of because they come out with…

— Shawn Michaels

“Some women chose to embody this new form of physical empowerment & transformed their words into actions. Exhibition boxer Minnie Rosenblatt Besser…

— Wendy L. Rouse

There wasn't one defining moment that I said, 'I wanna be a wrestler.' It was just something that was always inside me.

— Finn Balor

I love fighting. I want to fight, but there are principles in this game. You've got to have morals. I'm not just…

— Luke Rockhold

America is the only country where a significant proportion of the population believes that professional wrestling is real but the moon landing…

— David Letterman

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one…

— Napoleon Hill

I respect every opponent no matter their record, no matter their title belts. I approach each opponent the same way.

— Celestino Caballero

I never want to get into a situation where I say, 'I'm going to pressure this guy,' and then I have to…

— Shane Mosley

I love Stone Cold. It's a weird obsession, and he should probably get a restraining order.

— Paige

There's always ways of motivating yourself to higher levels. Write about it, dream about it. But after that, turn it into action.…

— Dan Gable

People have said I have a Napoleon complex. But I've always had to fight for everything that I have.

— Chris Paul

Iran has been strong in individual sports like wrestling, judo and weightlifting, but we have never excelled at team sports.

— Ali Daei

The manner of my defeat against Mayweather and certainly Manny Pacquiao was a bitter pill to swallow.

— Ricky Hatton

I was still part of that trend where it was see how low you can get, get as small as you can…

— Michael Chiesa

If you watch wrestling, you now know the hip-hop culture is being represented with wrestling. For the longest time, the cultures have…

— John Cena

There are ways to win fights, and sometimes you don't always choose the easiest way to win a fight.

— Daniel Cormier

I think Impact Wrestling can stand on its own without Ric Flair, but it's always nice to have a guy like that…

— Bobby Roode

I love being able to perform in the ring in front of people, and that's the greatest feeling in the world.

— John Morrison

I go to gyms quite a bit, martial arts gyms, MMA gyms. I try to train with the best people, with who's…

— Michael Jai White

Colby, he gets the credit as the guy that would be the champion if Kamaru wasn't there, but who's he beat? He…

— Belal Muhammad

“Every martial art, from T’ai Chi Chuan to the nuclear deterrent, is based on a doctrine—an idea of how combat works.”

— Guy Windsor

People look at me, and they have a certain perception, and they slap a label on me. The guy you saw in…

— Dave Bautista

You may get tired. So what? We expect to be tired, but we expect to be able to continue until a match…

— Dan Gable

When I say I'm a true welterweight I'm talking about every fighter that has ever moved into the welterweight division.

— Keith Thurman

Winning the IBF title was the greatest night of my life. To give it up outside the ring is truly painful.

— Ricky Hatton

I always go into a fight thinking the decision is going to be fair, and I relish these fights where the atmosphere…

— Katie Taylor