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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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 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

“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

“Train jiu-jitsu. Also train boxing, judo, wrestling and Muay Thai and any other style that involves being in shape and overcoming the resistance of a prepared opponent.”
― roberto pedreira, Archives of GTR, 2000-2024: Vol. 1, History

“Like anybody starting out in something new, I needed someone to believe in me.”
― Nattie Neidhart, The Last Hart Beating: From the Dungeon to WWE

“I hit Marty with a few thunderous chops across the chest, calling the next few moves as I went. The crowd would have ate cat shit from my unwashed hands such was the heat in that arena.”
― David Louden, Falls Count Anywhere

“He held his hands out like he was trying to manage a lion without a wooden chair and a whip.”
― David Louden, A Good Hand

“From what I hear he’s had enough brushes with the law since going pro to open an art studio.”
― David Louden, A Good Hand

“There was no getting out of this one. I was too far from the ropes. The best I could do would be to tap out, take the L and bide my time. Love, like wrestling, was all about timing.”
― David Louden, Falls Count Anywhere

“Even though we had never tied up, there was no part of my life where Danny Moretti wasn’t linked to wrestling. We both reflected for each other all the people we had lost to the business and while he had made peace with it; while he was able to see past the pain into the happiness, I had not.”
― David Louden, A Good Hand

“The front door burst open and in doing so, saved me from taking a beatdown from a fifteen-year-old girl. Lynda rushed the hallways whooping and wailing like a heartbroken banshee.”
― David Louden, A Good Hand

“I got back to the motel with coffee and a bag of pastries and when Marty smelt the hot caffeine enter our room he rose straight out of his bed like he was a count living in a high castle.”
― David Louden, A Good Hand

“This was a significant step down from the live broadcast locations that the GCW frequented during my time with the company. If the exterior had seen better days then the interior had only ever read about them.”
― David Louden, Falls Count Anywhere

“The parish sat in the centre of town and had been refurbished recently as part of the broader, Yellowknife Initiative. A silver dollar in a pocket full of pennies.”
― David Louden, A Good Hand