Wrestler Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• I don't ever really list things that I want to do. The only two things that I've ever wanted to do are be in a rock band and be a wrestler. Those were my two goals.

  Chris Jericho

  Rocks, Two, Goal

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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• My days of being a full time wrestler are over. Nothing wrong with that, that's just the general progression of your career and your life.

  Chris Jericho

  Careers, Progression

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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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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• Grappling with fate is like meeting an expert wrestler: to escape, you have to accept the fall when you are thrown. The only thing that counts is whether you get back up.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Fall, Wrestling, Fate

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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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• 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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• For younger athletes - women, especially, if it's a male-dominated sport - I'd say be very careful to just be true to yourself. I spent a lot of time trying to emulate how a male wrestler was. They're tough, they're very confident, they don't show a lot of emotion, and they push through everything. That's not me at all. I'm a wrestler but I have emotions, I'm sensitive. When I stopped trying to be something that I wasn't, I felt like I was freeing myself up to find ways to make it work for myself.

  Helen Maroulis

  Sports, Athlete, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of L.A. in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran for office like actors and professional wrestlers.

  Jay Leno

  Basketball, Running, Player

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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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• 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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• People don't understand, yeah I'm alright as a wrestler, but I beat people in the takedown because of my distance control - because of my Karate. This is something I learned since I'm 7 years old.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Distance, Years, People

  Source: www.bloodyelbow.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• I really believe that professional wrestlers are not protected. I think everybody gets a big kick out of watching them and whether the wrestling is real or not, people love watching it.

  Nancy Grace

  Real, Believe, Wrestling

  Source: 411mania.com

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• I think that those wrestlers, those women and men that go in the ring are not protected. I don't think anybody is ever looking out for them and I think that they are used badly.

  Nancy Grace

  Men, Thinking, Used

  Source: 411mania.com

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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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• You have to connect with the crowd. If you can't do that, I don't care how good a wrestler you are, or how much muscle you have or how cool your hair is. You have to connect with the crowd. The guys who I like are the ones who have that connection.

  Chris Jericho

  Hair, Guy, Connections

  Source: www.wwe.com

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

  Kelly Hu

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