Wrestling Quotes - Page 23

• I think nonviolence and the mediation of conflict by means of respecting civility must be promoted. But being the kind of beings we [peoplep] are - wrestling with greed, and wrestling with fears and security, anxieties, wrestling with hatred that's shot through all of us - wars are here to stay.

  Cornel West

  War, Mean, Thinking

  Source: genius.com

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• Spaces devoted to Hannibal Lecter’s earliest years differ from the other archives in being incomplete. Some are static scenes, fragmentary, like painted attic shards held together by blank plaster. Other rooms hold sound and motion, great snakes wrestling and heaving in the dark and lit in flashes. Pleas and screaming fill some places on the grounds where Hannibal himself cannot go. But the corridors do not echo screaming, and there is music if you like.

  Thomas Harris

  Dark, Echoes, Years

  Thomas Harris (2007). “Hannibal Rising”, Dell

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• I never watched wrestling, I was never a fan of wrestling really.

  George Steele

  Fans

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I don't do what you people want. I Do What I Want!

  Kane

  Motivational, People, Want

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• You are powerful. Sorry. Hate to be the bearer of bad news. You are. You can continue arm wrestling with yourself, or you can use both arms, your whole heart, and all your strength to wrestle with greatness. The choice is yours.

  Peter McWilliams

  Sorry, Powerful, Hate

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• In Judaism faith means wrestling with God as Jacob once wrestled with an angel.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Mean, Angel, Jacob

  "The Case for God?". BBC Documentary, September 06, 2010.

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• Due to the injuries that I will have for the rest of my life, it is physically impossible for me to consider any career in wrestling.

  Brian Bosworth

  Careers, Impossible, Injury

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• If you notice phrases, ideas, and anecdotes that closely resemble those that appear elsewhere in my writing, it's not a matter of sloppy editing. I'm repeating myself. I'm reshuffling words in the hope that just once I might say something exactly right. And I'm still wrestling with dilemmas that are not easily resolved or easily dismissed. I run at them again and again because I am not finished with them. Any may never be. Work-in- progress on a life-in-progress is what my writing is about. And some progress in the work is enough to keep it going on.

  Robert Fulghum

  Life, Running, Hope

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door”, p.28, Ivy Books

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• I discovered early in life that if you take gym first period, you can go into the wrestling room and sit in the corner and sleep.

  Paul Desmond

  Sleep, Rooms, Firsts

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• If I... if I competed in Bruno Sammartino's era, I'd have been champion for 20 years, too. No, I'd have been champion for 30 years. Because wrestling one night a month at Madison Square Garden is easy. You never see a Hulk Hogan wrestle TLC matches against a superstar like Ryback. Because he had it easy. I wrestle physically demanding matches on free television, week in and week out. So much that my one year equals 30 of theirs. And I have attained this success, not... not because of you. I am successful not because of you. I am successful in spite of you.

  CM Punk

  Inspiring, Successful, Night

  "WWE Raw", January 7, 2013.

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• 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.

  CM Punk

  Inspiring, Tattoo, Men

  "Extreme Championship Wrestling", July 4, 2006.

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• That Ted Turner is a genius...He has taken what used to be a carnival side show and turned it into a gold mine. Yes - wrestling has become prime time for the masses. He's making these giant men into millionares with movie star status.

  Samantha Barks

  Stars, Taken, Men

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• As they say, anything can happen in the World Wrestling Federation.

  Jerry Lawler

  Say Anything, World, Anything Can Happen

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• OSHA had come in and looked at the channel 5 studios and it sort of had something to do with wrestling, but they found that there were some safety concerns that had to be addressed.

  Jerry Lawler

  Safety, Found, Concern

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• 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.

  Jerry Lawler

  Successful, Thinking, Facts

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• When I'm in bed with a woman, my favorite move is a wrestling hold called the lip lock

  Jerry Lawler

  Moving, Bed, Locks

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• 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

  Jerry Lawler

  People, Judging, And Love

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• Tonight, somewhere in America, a young person, let's say a young man, will struggle to fall to sleep, wrestling alone with a secret he's held as long as he can remember. Soon, perhaps, he will decide it's time to let that secret out. What happens next depends on him, his family, as well as his friends and his teachers and his community. But it also depends on us - on the kind of society we engender, the kind of future we build.

  Barack Obama

  Teacher, Struggle, Fall

  "Petition Response: On Conversion Therapy". Barack Obama's statement on the petition on conversion therapy at the White House in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. April 8, 2015.

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• What's funny is that people think, "Well there has to be something more than wrestling, because wrestling has such an absurd quality to it." But if you tell a love story, people don't ask what else is in there. They say, "Oh, it's just a love story." All stories have many levels, but these ones show their hand and say, "You might want to look a little deeper."

  John Darnielle

  Thinking, Hands, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I started doing wrestling just as a fun thing and I ended up getting some breaks and made a job out of it but I never had a real passion for it. I met a lot of great people and enjoyed doing what I did but wrestling wasn't something I lived and breathed.

  Ric Savage

  Jobs, Fun, Real

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• I had no coaching. I came out of the world of pro wrestling. In that job there are no agents, no publicists, no media training. It's just you and the crowd, and you have to be real to win them over. And if you don't, you're not gonna eat. And that's it.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Real, Winning, Coaching

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• You know why there were only 220 Mexicans at the Alamo? They only had one car.

  Bobby H. Barbee, Sr.

  Car, Alamo, Knows

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• The Barbarian's shoes are Hair Jordans

  Bobby H. Barbee, Sr.

  Hair, Shoes, Barbarians

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• Wrestling has been a way of life with me day in and day out. I won't get too far away from it. I might walk through the wrestling room once a week. I could go every day if I wanted. But just walk through, make sure it's still there.

  Dan Gable

  Might, Way, Rooms

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• I think teenagers bring a lot of intellectual sophistication. They're wrestling with big questions. It's just that, a lot of times they do that separately from adults.

  John Green

  Teenager, Thinking, Intellectual

  "The Fault in Our Stars' John Green on Why He Loves Writing For Teens". Interview with Ryan Roschke, www.popsugar.com. March 31, 2015.

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