Wrestling Quotes - Page 32

• Inside the room, a man and a woman were wrestling. They were both naked.

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Naked, Rooms

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.83, Bantam

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  The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

  William James

  Life, Change, Positive

  "Living the Abundant Life". Book by Thomas S. Monson, 2004.

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• Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.

  Theodore Newton Vail

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

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• In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Failure, Adversity

  Vince Lombardi, Balance Design (1998). “Motivation Lombardi Style”

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• So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.

  Martina Navratilova

  Inspirational, Sports, Business

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• It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

  John Bradshaw

  Education, Teacher, Mistake

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• If you whoop and holler all the time, the players just get used to it.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Believe

  Paul Bear Bryant, John Underwood (2007). “Bear: The Hard Life and Good Times of Alabama's Coach Bryant”, p.1934, Triumph Books

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• Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Character

  Andrew Hill, John Wooden (2002). “Be Quick - But Don't Hurry: Finding Success in the Teachings of a Lifetime”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• A lot of people don't realize that wrestling is acting; you're playing a role and a part.

  Chris Jericho

  People, Acting, Roles

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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• Even hidden in the most squalid Parisian halls, wrestling partakes of the nature of the great solar spectacles, Greek drama and bullfights: in both, a light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.

  Roland Barthes

  Drama, Light, Greek

  Roland Barthes (1973). “Mythologies”

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• We wrestle with our own opponents on a daily basis. These challengers can come in numerous forms whether it be a physical challenge, emotional, or even relational issues that can overtake us. No matter what opponent we are wrestling against we can be UNSTOPPABLE.

  Anthony Robles

  Emotional, Issues, Challenges

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• When I was a kid at four years old, that's when I started amateur wrestling with my dad and family. And when that's instilled in you, it never goes away.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Dad, Kids, Years

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• I've always loved the showmanship of professional wrestling. While I love making movies, I love that platform, too.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Inspire, Love Making, Platforms

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• I get a lot of influence from pro wrestling. People are like, 'Oh, it's fake.' But it's not about whether the guy wins or loses, it's about how he entertains you the whole time you're watching.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Winning, People, Fake

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Wrestling is very similar to gay sex, but you don't have to wear condoms.

  Jack Barakat

  Sex, Gay, Condom

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• I think drugs and alcohol aren't a wrestling problem, it's a life problem, it's a people problem.

  CM Punk

  Thinking, People, Alcohol

  "CM Punk talks Rock, Austin, 'WWE 12'". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.espn.com. November 23, 2011.

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• I'd like to be the John Wayne of the '90s. Not in terms of being the macho guy, but as a solid male leading character. Making an action-adventure comedy that kids can see with their families is a natural extension of what I did in wrestling.

  Hulk Hogan

  Adventure, Character, Kids

  "Q&A with Hulk Hogan: Say What You Will, He Fills Out a Tutu". Interview with Marshall Fine, October 07, 1993.

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• In high school, during lunchtime I would go in the room where the wrestling mats were and try different flips and different moves. Like windmills. I just started mixing martial arts with jazz and contemporary stuff and it would get mashed together and became my style.

  Caity Lotz

  Art, Moving, School

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every day one has to earn the name of 'writer' over again, with much wrestling.

  Sylvia Plath

  Names

  Sylvia Plath (2011). “Letters Home”, p.410, Faber & Faber

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• Kyokoshin I've done most, but I competed in Sports Karate also, that's my style that I come from, and mixed with the wrestling that's how I got the takedowns.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Sports, Style, Done

  Source: www.bloodyelbow.com

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• Early, when I first started wrestling, I wanted to be a combination of Sting and the Ultimate Warrior. The Ultimate Warrior's craziness and weird personality and Sting's coolness and the way he carried himself to the ring. But then later on, when it came to physicality and athleticism, Shawn Michaels topped the cake.

  Jeff Hardy

  Warrior, Cake, Personality

  Source: www.ign.com

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• Motocross might be more dangerous because it's hard to tame the machine sometimes. Wrestling, you're dealing with yourself and your own body, but when you're trying to tame the machine, that sh*t can be kind of hard sometimes.

  Jeff Hardy

  Trying, Machines, Body

  Source: www.ign.com

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• The most important thing in the professional wrestling industry in this day and age of technology and the Internet and social media is to be able to make wrestling unpredictable.

  Matt Hardy

  Technology, Media, Important

  Source: www.rohwrestling.com

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• 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

  Philosophy, Issues, People

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