Bruno Sammartino

I'm an opera lover.

— Bruno Sammartino

Franco Corelli is my favorite tenor.

— Bruno Sammartino

We lived off the land in Italy.

— Bruno Sammartino

I sweat an awful lot.

— Bruno Sammartino

What the heck did people see in me?

— Bruno Sammartino

Let's face it, I'm a has-been.

— Bruno Sammartino

I could never imagine myself living anywhere but Pittsburgh.

— Bruno Sammartino

I think guys like Cena work very hard.

— Bruno Sammartino

There's nothing like wrestling in front of people you know.

— Bruno Sammartino

I never had a gimmick. All I had was a pair of boots and a pair of tights.

— Bruno Sammartino

Inoki is nothing but a third rater in my estimation.

— Bruno Sammartino

I very seldom look at wrestling magazines. Whenever I do, I get angry.

— Bruno Sammartino

I only survived because of my mother's love and care.

— Bruno Sammartino

The greatest gift a man can have is to have an operatic voice.

— Bruno Sammartino

Buddy Rogers and I never liked each other to be honest, however I take nothing away from him.

— Bruno Sammartino

Everything that I am, everything that I've done, everything that I hope to be is because of my mom.

— Bruno Sammartino

Haystacks Calhoun has never been lifted because he has never been in the ring with Bruno Sammartino.

— Bruno Sammartino

Wrestling isn't looked upon like the other sports of football, baseball, basketball and hockey.

— Bruno Sammartino

I was born in Pizzoferrato, a little village of 1000, in the Abruzzi region of Italy.

— Bruno Sammartino

Anytime that people feel that you accomplished enough to enter into a Hall of Fame, of course this is a tremendous, tremendous…

— Bruno Sammartino

I didn't care if I was aching or hurting. I wanted to give the fans their money's worth.

— Bruno Sammartino

Besides wrestling, in my younger years, I also competed in Olympic lifting and power lifting.

— Bruno Sammartino

I was never going to do anything that would have brought shame to my family. I owed too much, and I wanted…

— Bruno Sammartino

She was absolutely my hero. She would do without if she could help somebody else. My mom showed the courage of the…

— Bruno Sammartino

I've had 10 major operations. Four back surgeries. A hip replacement. A broken neck... But I consider myself lucky. I keep thinking…

— Bruno Sammartino

Stan Hansen was a different ballgame. I broke my neck wrestling him in Madison Square Garden. I spent a month in the…

— Bruno Sammartino

I had a lot of my success due to appearing at the Garden. I wrestled there over 200 times, it's where I…

— Bruno Sammartino

They call me 'The Maniac' as far as training goes. I'm a fanatic. I run 10 miles every day and I train…

— Bruno Sammartino

I never wrestled for the money or the fame. I just wanted to be able to take care of my family. I…

— Bruno Sammartino

In my day, I, myself, in my prime, in the late-'50s-mid-'70s I was about 270-275. After I broke my neck and I…

— Bruno Sammartino

When I broke my neck, I was told that I came within a millimeter of dying or being paralyzed from the neck…

— Bruno Sammartino

Kurt Angle, I knew he was from Pittsburgh and I knew his background very well and his amateur days and, of course,…

— Bruno Sammartino

Professional wrestlers are human beings like anybody else.

— Bruno Sammartino

If anybody can really beat me, fine. But that's the only way I'll go down.

— Bruno Sammartino

If I had only Inoki to meet, I could wrestle until I was 60 years old.

— Bruno Sammartino

Ivan Koloff was great. I had a lot of great matches with him.

— Bruno Sammartino

The last thing I want to do in Europe is drive.

— Bruno Sammartino

I lost a brother and a sister, and I came down with rheumatic fever.

— Bruno Sammartino

We didn't have shoes until we came over to America.

— Bruno Sammartino

I work out about three hours a day, four days a week to keep in shape.

— Bruno Sammartino