Beating a dead horse Quote by Owen Hart

You hear the word 'fake' thrown around wrestling, but it doesn't get more real when you hear the sound of 20,000 people coming unglued.

— Sean Waltman

One of the reasons wrestling works is because it allows people to suspend their disbelief. They may know it's not real, but if it's…

— Eric Bischoff

Pro wrestling is not fake; it's sports entertainment. We go out there and we perform, and a lot of what we do out there…

— Kurt Angle

There's a misconception about wrestling, that it's really fake, but it's real, and you can really get hurt, even though a lot of it…

— Gayle Rankin

“But just as much as it was a sport, it was a sideshow—a carny act that eventually made it to Broadway. So the next…

— David Shoemaker

I think most people, most rational people, most people that I would feel comfortable sitting in a room with, understand that wrestling is scripted…

— Eric Bischoff

Wrestling isn't real. The falls hurt, sometimes you get punches in the face, but it's not real. It's propaganda. Propaganda makes you the giant…

— Enzo Amore

I guess when I talk to friends and family back home they don't know anything about wrestling, but when they bring it up they…

— Adam Page

Wrestling is a performance. Its entertainment, we [wrestlers] tell stories. We make our fans happy by telling stories but the long and short of…

— John Cena

Fans see the competition between wrestling companies, which is the one thing traditionally everyone has known is real.

— Tony Khan

The only difference with wrestling is we're like a live performance. So we're feeding off the audience and if they do't like something, they…

— Adam Cole

I think when people don't respect wrestling, it's because they're misinformed.

— Kevin Owens