Wrestling Quotes

“You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.”
― John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire

“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.”
― Deng Ming-Dao, Everyday Tao: Living with Balance and Harmony

“I'm the best there is, the best there was, and the best there ever will be.”
― Bret Hart

“Inside the room, a man and a woman were wrestling. They were both naked.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“If I've heard this saying once, I've heard it a thousand times - Everything happens for a reason. And it possibly does. I just haven't found the reason that this all happened yet.”
― Jerry "The King" Lawler

“I have never seen a wrestling match or prize fight, and I don't want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports, I drop him.”
― Hedy Lamarr

“MATT HARDY WILL NOT DIE”
― Matt Hardy, The Hardy Boyz: Exist 2 Inspire -- 2003 publication

“[The Spartans] ordered the maidens to exercise themselves with wrestling, running, throwing the quoit, and casting the dart, to the end that the fruit they conceived might, in strong and healthy bodies, take firmer root and find better growth, and withal that they, with this greater vigour, might be the more able to undergo the pains of childbearing.”
― Plutarch, Plutarch's Lives: Volume I

“The liberal state has no view on whether witchcraft is more valuable than all-in wrestling. Like a tactful publican, it has as few opinions as possible. Many liberals suspect passionate convictions are latently authoritarian. But liberalism should surely be a passionate conviction. Liberals are not necessarily lukewarm. Only the more macho leftist suspects that they have no balls. You can be ardently neutral, and fiercely indifferent.”
― Terry Eagleton

“--What's going on in there?
--Let me see.
--Some kind of homo grappling shit.”
― Yusaku Hanakuma, Tokyo Zombie

“From the managerial perspective, Sir Oliver Humperdink, a heinous sort for most of his career, said the release of pentup emotions might even have been healthy for mind and soul. "As heels, we were able to be as annoying and politically incorrect’ as possible.We were able to say and do what everyone probably wanted to say and do, but, for one reason or another, could never, ever get away with. And, by being able to do so, I generally found that my fellow heels were much more 'easygoing' than our babyface counterparts who had to 'toe the line.”
― Greg Oliver, The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: The Heels

“You see the whole culture (watching television) . . . Nazis, deodorant salesman, wrestlers . . . beauty contests, the talk show . . . Can you imagine the level of a mind that watches wrestling? Hmm? But the worst are the fundamentalist preachers . . . third-rate con men, telling the poor suckers that watch them that they speak for Jesus . . . and to please send in money. Money, money, money! If Jesus came back, and saw what’s going on in his name, he’d never stop throwing up.”
― Woody Allen, Hannah and Her Sisters

“We can wrestle sometimes and see who is OK and who is KO.”
― Natalya Vorobyova, Better to be able to love than to be loveable

“All those guys on the wrestling team, though - they scare me. And they're so homophobic... well, you can't help wondering about their sexual orientation, I mean they all think I'm gay, but you wouldn't catch me in a pair of tights grabbing some other guys inner thigh.”
― Meg Cabot, Shadowland

“It’s a work kid, a fucking lie. Our business is built on bullshit, every square inch of it. Call it deception, call it untruth, call it what you will. It is what it is. A work a dirty downright stinking fucking work. And whether it’s the dumb marks who pay to see this shit, or the dumb fucks who lace up every night to do it, they're all fair game, each and every one of em; suckers born to be fleeced for all their worth Anyone who says otherwise is probably working you twice as hard as I am. But hey, you already knew that, didn’t you? Welcome to the beast, that is, pro wrestling kid.

Harvey Wallbanger Wrestling Promoter Extraordinaire”
― Stevie Pearson, Real in Memphis: A Tale of Territory, Treachery and Turbulence

“WIFE = Wrestling Is For Ever.”
― M.Rehan Behleem

“One of my seminary professors once said that when we read the Bible, we should read it with resistance: constantly asking questions, wrestling with it the way Jacob wrestled with God. May these pages invite you to do just that.”
― Kat Armas, Sacred Belonging: A 40-Day Devotional on the Liberating Heart of Scripture

“In the 80s a Tennessee cousin decided he wanted to be a pro-wrestler. There was no real need to train or prepare back then. They just had him arrive a bit early to learn all he needed to know. After showing him a few tricks to sell the action he was handed a fake blood capsule. Fans liked to see the match end in blood. But that cousin was there to fight. Wrestling was real. The bell rang and punches were thrown. "Dirty" Dick Slater split my cousin's head open with an elbow. The match ended in blood as the crowd cheered. Anything can be real for a single night.”
― Damon Thomas, Some Books Are Not For Sale

“To help Jack through his painful last months, I moved into his home on Lake Dallas in Denton County, Texas. In the months that followed, Jack Adkisson and I would become the closest of friends. I did my best to take care of him and make his final days as pleasant as possible until he passed away in September of that year. I considered it a privilege to spend those last few months with a man I have always considered my life-long hero. Being by his side as he passed from this world was an experience that has touched my life in so many ways.”
― Ron G. Mullinax

“...faithfully pray and God will answer our prayer. That’s the part I was struggling with. But then he added that God will always let us know what He wants us to do. God will let you know...”
― Shawn Michaels, Wrestling for My Life: The Legend, the Reality, and the Faith of a WWE Superstar

“When you're wrestling with life and/or yourself and getting the beat down, don't forget to tag God in!”
― Sanjo Jendayi

“Justice is not the wrestling, justice is a battle”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Two people throwing each other. That's a blast.”
― Gary Mayabb

“The rumour was that he wrestled gorillas in his spare time, two at a time, although to be honest, why London Zoo would let him wrestle one, let alone two of their Gorillas Marty wasn't sure.”
― Ian Slatter, Eco Worrier

“…in the immortal words of Owen Hart, “Enough is enough, and it’s time for a chance.”
― Mick Foley, Have a Nice Day!: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks

“A lady does not confirm or deny idle gossip; doing so is like wrestling with a pig: you both get dirty, but the pig enjoys it.”
― Jamie Ford, Love and Other Consolation Prizes

“I told the truth - but I wasn't being honest.”
― Hulk Hogan, My Life Outside the Ring

“Holt heaved a longsuffering sigh. “And then my mother called yesterday morning, chewing me out once again for not going into the family profession and instead wasting my brain managing a bunch of oiled-up beefcakes in skimpy panties. As if that isn’t the dream.”
― Lily Mayne, Impromptu Match

“The boss of a secret wrestling association operating out of the basement of my work building had dressed up in a costume and hired an exotic dancer to give him a sexy “sad office worker” striptease in his office. I couldn’t decide which part was the weirdest.”
― Lily Mayne, Impromptu Match

“For my breakfast in the morning, I always make sure to have a large bowl of rocks and milk. That's why they call me "the Rock.”
― Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson