Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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!

Judith Orloff

Stop protesting the hand you've been dealt! Become partners with your life instead of making it an exhausting wrestling match.

John C. Maxwell

A big man is one who makes us feel bigger when we are with him.

Neal Stephenson

When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.

Morarji Desai

All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

Jones Very

From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet.

Jonathan Stroud

Literature offers the thrill of minds of great clarity wrestling with the endless problems and delights of being human. To engage with them is to engage with oneself, and the lasting rewards are not confined to specific career paths.

Kurt Angle

You don't BOO an Olympic Gold Medalist!

Kurt Angle

Pro wrestling was there, and I was good at it, thank God. I started getting a lot of offers, but unfortunately, at WWE I was under a tight leash. I think it had a lot to do with The Rock making the transition, and me possibly being the next guy - you know, the company didnt want to lose another top performer.

Kurt Angle

You can turn a giant into a mouse just by getting him fatigued. That was my whole game plan.

Kurt Angle

Im in professional wrestling, which is what I do for a living. I coordinate stunts. I memorize them.

Kurt Angle

Hey, I drank milk that was a DAY past its expiration date. Now THAT is extreme!

Kurt Angle

You do not boo an Olympic Gold Medalist. I'm the best in the world. I came here for you. You don't boo me.

Kurt Angle

Oh it's TRUE, it's DAMN true.

Lou Thesz

The reality, or substance, of professional wrestling is the ability to perpetuate a fantasy. I never distinguished between fantasy and reality. I made my fantasy reality for over 60 years.

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.

John Carpenter

First of all, I was a wrestling fan when I was young. Even when I figured out what wrestling was, I was still a fan.

George Allen

What you do in the off season determines what you do in the regular season.

Jim Zalesky

Anybody can win the matches you can dominate, but it's the tough matches that are going to make the difference.

John McCain

I spent most of my time wrestling looking up at the lights.

Jimmy Connors

What works for the person you're imitating may not work for you.

Jim Ross

Is there a better wrestling villain on TV these days than CM Punk? Arguable question but for my sauce, Punk is right there at the top of the heap with a handful of his peers.