Wrestling Quotes

Wrestling is ballet with violence. (Jesse Ventura)
Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle
It's good to go out and entertain these people, and you've got them on the edge of their seat, they're standing up. Then you know that you've done your job, you've entertained them. My way of entertaining them is going out and wrestling. Everyone's got their different ways. View quote
Owen Hart
As far as wrestling goes, as long as my body is able to withstand the physical beating, I will keep wrestling. View quote
Trish Stratus
I'm good friends with The Rock, and I talk to him all the time. And he says that, even though his movie career has taken off, he misses the instant gratification of wrestling, and the live crowds, and I could see being that way myself. View quote
Trish Stratus
Don't let these tattoos fool you. I'm straight edge. I'm a man of great discipline; I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't do drugs... my addiction is wrestling - my obsession is competition. Discipline. My name is C...M...Punk. View quote
Phil Brooks
I commend you on all you've done for PETA, wrestling the one-eyed trouser snake with your bare hands, gently cuddling it in your arms, and nurturing it back to health. View quote
Sarah Silverman
Ted Seabrooke, my wrestling coach, had a kind of Nietzschean effect on me in terms of not just his estimation of my limited abilities, but his decidedly philosophical stance about how to conduct your life, what you should do to compensate for your limitations. This was essential to me, both as a student-and not a good one-and as a wrestler who was not a natural athlete but who had found something he loved. View quote
John Irving
In Judaism faith means wrestling with God as Jacob once wrestled with an angel... View quote
Jonathan Sacks
This is not to say that I wasn't completely repulsed. I mean, I wasn't exactly proud that my stepbrother was in there tongue wrestling with the second stupidest person in our class, after himself. View quote
Meg Cabot
Of course we also live in a world of great beauty, sacrificial and passionate love, tenderness, prosperity, courage and joy. But quite a lot of all that seems to happen regardless of the paradigm and the high thoughts of philosophy. It has always happened. It is precisely because it has always happened that we go on wrestling with these issues in the hope that it can happen more often and for more people. (Sara Maitland)
I'm the man that made wrestling famous. View quote
Hulk Hogan
You can have a wrestling idea, but you need to have these momentum-shifting moves. We had the Hulkamania movement, then it shifted to the beer-drinking, Stone Cold era, we reinvented the business with growing the black beard and becoming the bad guy, what's that next level. View quote
Hulk Hogan
My father-in-law and I always had great interest in Indian sport. At the Athens Olympics, watching the wrestling event, we started discussing the state of Indian sport - inadequate representation, lack of satisfactory results etc. We thought we should do something about it. View quote
Amit Bhatia
I like to make my fights exciting and different. Everybody in UFC can fight; we're capable of kickboxing, wrestling, but I like to stand out. That's what I really pride myself on. What can I do to stand out from the other people in my sport. View quote
Anthony Pettis
You're speechless sometimes when you think of the support you've had from the first day I've started wrestling to now. View quote
Clay Guida
Many of those who have paid the ultimate price for freedom have come through the wrestling ranks. We need to honor them and win this decision to have wrestling - the world's oldest sport - remain a part of the most prestigious athletic competition in the world, the Olympics. View quote
Dan Gable
People look at me, and they have a certain perception, and they slap a label on me. The guy you saw in a wrestling ring is not who I am. View quote
Dave Bautista
I never excelled at one sport or had a very strong passion for anything other than wrestling and bodybuilding. View quote
Dave Bautista
To me, wrestling is therapy. No matter how bad my personal situation is, when I step into the ring, all my troubles disappear. My baggage stays in the back where it belongs. View quote
Eddie Guerrero
When I'm in bed with a woman, my favorite move is a wrestling hold called the lip lock. (Jerry Lawler)
I don't think that McMahon thinks very much about the fact that J.R and I have been successful. I don't think that McMahon thinks the wrestling announcers really have that much to contribute the show. View quote
Jerry Lawler
Judging from what looks like the popularity of this classic wrestling show is that the people like what they have grown to know and love here in Memphis. View quote
Jerry Lawler
I'm 53, and it's hard to get to the gym every day. If I know on Friday I'm going to be wrestling, then I don't want to look bad, so it gives me motivation. Plus, once you're in motion, it's a lot easier to stay in motion. View quote
Kevin Nash
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 is real, but we're not going to insult anyone's intelligence - there is a predetermined winner. It's just the fans don't know who it is, and that's what makes it so intriguing. View quote
Kurt Angle