Wrestler Quotes - Page 2

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  There are moments in life where it gets so hectic that time becomes a blur. Keep calm and never give up.

  John Cena

  Life, Encouraging, Uplifting

  Twitter post from Jul 21, 2014

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• Koko B. Ware is a crossword wrestler: he enters the ring vertically, and leaves horizontally.

  Jerry Lawler

  Rings, Crosswords

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• What does it say about our country when people are so desperate for an alternative to our one-party state masquerading as a two-party state that they'll even elect a professional wrestler governor?

  Jello Biafra

  Country, Party, Two

  Address to the US Green Party, 2000.

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• I don't know of any wrestler who hasn't, at one time or another, been with a fan. One time I met a woman at a match in Tennessee, and afterward we went to a little roadside motel. We checked in, went to the room, and enjoyed each other for an hour or so.

  Jerry Lawler

  Littles, Rooms, Fans

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• Being a 3-time Intercontinental champion doesn't make you a great wrestler, just like Larry King having 9 wives don't make him a great husband.

  Jerry Lawler

  Kings, Husband, Wife

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• It's taboo for me to date wrestlers.

  Stephanie

  Taboo

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• Right after I did 'The Fountain,' I wanted to go make a documentary or something that was less constructed - more natural. I was searching for a project, and sniffing around, 'The Wrestler' fit right in

  Darren Aronofsky

  Documentaries, Fit, Natural

  Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. October 9, 2008.

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• Zinedine Zidane could be a champion sumo wrestler. He can run like a crab or a gazelle.

  Howard Wilkinson

  Running, Zidane, Champion

  "The forgotten winners Sir Alex Ferguson left behind" by Rob Bagchi, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2011.

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• Being a professional wrestler was never one of my goals in life. I always wanted to be some kind of entertainer. I used to want to be a rock singer or a guitar player but I can't sing and I can't play the guitar.

  Ric Savage

  Player, Rocks, Guitar

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• Wrestling is a performance. Its entertainment, we [wrestlers] tell stories. We make our fans happy by telling stories but the long and short of it its pretty much the same thing as acting.

  John Cena

  Wrestling, Long, Acting

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• I think all great wrestlers appreciate a good BATTLE

  Kyle Dake

  Thinking, Appreciate, Battle

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• I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and why they booked matches a certain way and what they were thinking and whether they were satisfied with the draw. And I got a lot of insight in the business.

  Billy Corgan

  Business, Thinking, Years

  Interview with Hank Shteamer, www.timeout.com. October 21, 2012.

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• Many Republicans have always reminded me of professional WWF wrestlers. They come into the ring all pumped up and acting like they're invincible and that they're going to destroy their opponent. Then they get hit once and fall down and roll around in agony and suddenly seem immobilized by pain, calling for the ref to intervene.

  Paul Feig

  Pain, Fall, Agony

  "Crybabies for Bolton" by Paul Feig, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2005.

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• Jake Roberts has a hard enough time being Jake Roberts. The truth is a brutal thing, I just hope that the kids take the time to learn about each of the wrestlers in the game, and if the kids can learn from our mistakes, that would make me a happy man.

  Jake Roberts

  Mistake, Kids, Men

  "Jake "The Snake" Roberts Interview". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. December 18, 2003.

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• It took me the bulk of my twenties to write one book about a family of alligator wrestlers. Whereas somebody like Steve Martin is releasing his latest banjo symphony, having just completed another movie and acclaimed, best-selling novel.

  Karen Russell

  Book, Writing, Symphony

  "The Exchange: Karen Russell on 'Swamplandia!'" by Rachel Hurn, www.newyorker.com. February 15, 2011.

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• I can't catch her by copying her, I can't draw her with a borrowed stencil. She is all the things a lover should be and quite a few a lover should not. Pin her down? She's not a butterfly. I'm not a wrestler. She's not a target. I'm not a gun. Tell you what she is? She's not Lot no. 27 and I'm not one to brag.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Butterfly, Gun, Copying

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• The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to defeat than the greatest wrestler. He warned them that "if you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead.

  Jack Weatherford

  Anger, Pride, Keys

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• The best wrestlers, whether its a Hulk Hogan or a Rey Mysterio, are the ones who have psychology and can understand this business.

  Hulk Hogan

  Psychology

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• When the script for 'The Wrestler' kept coming to me I said, This movie is so good if you put me in the film as a wrestler people are going to say, 'No credibility, Hulk Hogan isn't a good actor,' whatever Hollywood thinks of me.

  Hulk Hogan

  Thinking, People, Hollywood

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• I think people are people and, if their feelings are truthful, they can connect. It doesn't matter if you're an aging, 50-something wrestler at the end of his career, or an ambitious, 20-something ballet dancer.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Thinking, Careers, People

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 28, 2010.

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• In Hollywood, there really is a stigma against wrestling. I think that's why people think wrestlers are Neanderthals who can't string two words together.

  Chris Jericho

  Wrestling, Thinking, Two

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• I wasn't sure what I was getting into when I signed on to work with a wrestler.

  Kelly Hu

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• Ric Flair, you can tell all these people that I'm full of it for calling myself the Legend Killer? Well, I think you're full of it for coming out here every Monday and telling the whole world that Triple H is the best wrestler in the world today. I know it's not true, I'm pretty sure all these people know it's not true and Ric Flair, I know that deep down inside your heart, you know it's not true either which is why it's so tragic to see what you've become. This generation is gonna remember Ric Flair for kissing Triple H's ass!

  Randy Orton

  Monday, Heart, Kissing

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• Hughes' debut novel, At Dawn, follows a former All-American wrestler, and is there any better metaphor for contemporary American life? We're all wrestling, tussling with the economy, no jobs, doing the best we can. Hughes doesn't flinch from the tough existential questions. He embraces them.

  Joshua Mohr

  Jobs, Wrestling, Dawn

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• I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn't have to translate.

  Maya Angelou

  Falling In Love, Doors, Laughing

  "No surrender" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2002.

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