Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Irving

Wrestling was my first success, the first thing that confirmed that I could be good at anything. Devoting yourself to wrestling, or tennis, or skiing, or dance, or to a musical instrument is a longing to be disciplined for a purpose.

John Howard

The believer's cross is no longer any and every kind of suffering, sickness, or tension, the bearing of which is demanded. The believer's cross must be, like his Lord's, the price of his social nonconformity. It is not, like sickness or catastrophe, an inexplicable, unpredictable suffering; it is the end of the path freely chosen after counting the cost. It is not, like Luther's or Thomas Muntzer's or Zinzendorf's or Kierkegaard's cross, an inward wrestling of the sensitive soul with self and sin; it is the social reality of representing in an unwilling world the Order to come.

John Haggai

The leader demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Georges St-Pierre

My mentality is like a Samurai: They used to every day work on their technique to make themselves almost perfect. Because perfection is impossible, but every day, you get closer to perfection.

Jerry Lawler

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

Jake [Roberts] is feeling a little under the weather. He has bar-thritis. That's when because stiffin' a different joint every night.

Jerry Lawler

Hey Mark Henry, where are your gold medals? We all know that if Mark Henry won a gold medal he'd just take it and have it bronzed.

Jerry Lawler

The only reason Jake 'The Snake' Roberts doesn't drink and drive anymore is because he is afraid he might hit a bump and spill his drink.

Jerry Lawler

This man can make a horror movie without makeup.

Jerry Lawler

Sunny didn't make a fool out of Phineas, God beat her to that.

Jerry Lawler

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

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

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

Jerry Lawler

Helen Hart is so old, she remembers when the Dead Sea was sick.

Jerry Lawler

You never really know a woman till you meet her in court.

Jerry Lawler

Helen Hart is the only person I know with an autographed copy of the Bible.

George S. Patton

I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed! Gen.

Jerry Seinfeld

If professional wrestling did not exist, could you come up with this idea? Could you envision the popularity of huge men in tiny bathing suits, pretending to fight?

Jeff Foxworthy

You might be a redneck if...you bought a VCR so you could tape wrestling while you are at work.

Jim Carrey

The future is now! Soon every American home will integrate their television, phone and computer. You'll be able to visit the Louvre on one channel, or watch female wrestling on another. You can do your shopping at home, or play Mortal Kombat with a friend from Vietnam. There's no end to the possibilities!

Gabriel Iglesias

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.

Chris Jericho

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

I never want to hide my wrestling background.

Chris Jericho

There are a lot of similarities between dancing and wrestling. The costumes are the same, the spandex and all that, but you have to be light on your feet to do both, and you have to remember choreography.

Chris Jericho

As a matter of fact I could beat you two with both my arms and my legs tied. I'll roll down this ramp and score myself a 7-10 idiot split!

Chris Jericho

A live performance is the same no matter what genre it is. Wrestling, rock 'n roll, hosting, acting - it's the same thing.

Chris Jericho

You'll never, eever, be the same, again!

Chris Jericho

Wrestling is part of what I do, but far from the only thing.

Chris Jericho

If you want to see Chris Jericho drink a beer with Stone Cold Steve Austin, give me a doo-a dee-dee-dam, dee-dee-doo.

Chris Jericho

Welcome to Raw, is, Jericho!

George R. R. Martin

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

Hugh Sidey

We are creating a political demolition derby, not a presidential debate. Those strange impulses in the American soul that have produced mud wrestling and The Gong Show seem to have claimed the national campaign.

In my mind, that's just what Winnipeg wrestling is.