Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Gable

My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.

Dan Gable

I'm delighted to be back in coaching. Our goal is to put Iowa wrestling back on top, and I want to do everything I can to make it happen.

Dan Gable

I can take anyone down at anytime; they can't take me down; no one can ride or turn me; I can control anyone.

Dan Gable

Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange.

Dan Gable

I shoot, I score. He shoots, I score.

Dan Gable

The obvious goals were there- State Champion, NCAA Champion, Olympic Champion. To get there I had to set an everyday goal which was to push myself to exhaustion or, in other words, to work so hard in practice that someone would have to carry me off the mat.

Dan Gable

My advice to young wrestlers is that your surroundings really make a difference. You want to put yourself in good, positive surroundings.

Dan Gable

If you want to train and work hard 3 months out of the year, well, then, UNI is a great place to go. If you want to bust your tail 6 months out of the year, you should be very happy at ISU. But if you want to train and develop into a champion 12 months out of the year, then Iowa is the place for you.

Dan Gable

A clean, hard-fought wrestling match is the most honest of athletic contests. There is no technological interventions, no teammates to blame, no panel of judges to bias the score. In wrestling, you compete or you quit. No alibis. I like that

Dan Gable

If you're afraid to fail, you'll never succeed.

Dan Marino

You get into feeling like you are in a zone. You can't be stopped. It's a good feeling but it never lasts.

Chuck Knox

Repeated actions are stored as habits. If the repeated actions aren't fundamentally sound, then what comes out in a game can't be sound. What comes out will be bad habits.

Chuck Knox

Practice without improvement is meaningless.

Dave Bautista

People look at me, and they have a certain perception, and they slap a label on me. The guy you saw in a wrestling ring is not who I am.

Dawn Fraser

I probably have a different mental approach to swimming than most people. I actually enjoy training.

Mickey Rourke

In boxing, you don't know what's going to happen. In wrestling, it's already prearranged.

Mickey Rourke

Wrestling and boxing is like Ping-Pong and rugby. There's no connection.

Ken Jeong

I grew up in North Carolina, and I grew up on wrestling.

Mr. T

WWE asked me to be in the Hall of Fame, and I turned it down. You know why? They put Pete Rose in the wrestling Hall of Fame. This guy can't even get into his own Hall of Fame.

Muammar al-Gaddafi

Boxing and wrestling are evidence that mankind has not rid itself of all savage behavior.

Jesse Ventura

You're lucky if I watch 10 minutes of wrestling a month. Most of the time, I channel surf, and I lose interest after a few minutes.

Jesse Ventura

They look like to carp going after the same piece of corn.

Jesse Ventura

Dusty Rhodes wouldn't win a body building contest for best abs, MacMahon, he'd win for MOST abs.

Jesse Ventura

The pleasure was all yours.

Jesse Ventura

In my era of wrestling, there were no guaranteed contracts, so it was inherent that you draw the crowd in to make money.

Jesse Ventura

In wrestling, my mustache made me look more like a villain. A good mustache can give you the look of the devil.

Through wrestling, through the hard work and the sweat, through the victories and the defeats, we learn a great deal about ourselves. Wrestling shows you your limits, your weaknesses, your strengths and, ultimately, you grow because of what it shows you.

James Hetfield

I like a women who's got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that's fine.

Hulk Hogan

I love to give the fans what they want. They're what I miss most when I'm not wrestling. That time in the ring is like being in heaven for me.

Hulk Hogan

After watching wrestling for 20 years, I thought I had enough confidence to do it. There were no wrestling schools at the time.

Hulk Hogan

Hopefully I can become the Babe Ruth of the World Wrestling Federation and be the champion at the same time.

Hulk Hogan

If anybody dared say wrestling was fake, you'd punch 'em. And you never used the word show. If you used the word show it was an insult.

Hulk Hogan

I'm the man that made wrestling famous.