Wrestling Quotes - Page 15

• I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.

  John Irving

  Birthday, Sports, Writing

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• Everyone out here in Los Angeles is trying to do whatever to break into films. It is a tough industry to get into, kind of like pro wrestling in a lot of respects when you think about it.

  Stone Cold Steve Austin

  Thinking, Trying, Tough

  Source: www.ign.com

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• At twenty life was like wrestling an octopus. Every moment mattered. At thirty it was a walk in the country. Most of the time your mind was somewhere else. By the time you got to seventy, it was probably like watching snooker on the telly.

  Mark Haddon

  Country, Somewhere Else, Octopus

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• Assessing existence while failing to embrace the insights of modern physics would be like wrestling in the dark with an unknown opponent.

  Brian Greene

  Dark, Would Be, Opponents

  Brian Greene (2007). “The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality”, p.5, Vintage

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• I've been wrestling for 15 years so my body hurts.

  Gail Kim

  Hurt, Years, Body

  Source: ftw.usatoday.com

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• Wrestling is one of those things that make me emotional.

  Gail Kim

  Emotional

  Source: ftw.usatoday.com

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• I'm not necessarily one to be remembered as a great, great speaker in wrestling, but I want to share my feelings about the people who have influenced me over the course of my career.

  Gail Kim

  Careers, People, Feelings

  Source: ftw.usatoday.com

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• Being a seasoned Londoner, Martin gave the body the "London once-over" - a quick glance to determine whether this was a drunk, a crazy or a human being in distress. The fact that it was entirely possible for someone to be all three simultaneously is why good-Samaritanism in London is considered an extreme sport - like BASE jumping or crocodile wrestling.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Sports, Crazy, Jumping

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• I think my fondest memories would be with Sting, and Steamboat, Dusty and er… I made a lot of money wrestling Wahoo McDaniel and Jack Mulligan too. It’d be hard to pinpoint one.

  Ric Flair

  Memories, Thinking, Would Be

  Source: smackdown5.moonfruit.com

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• I can’t think of any negative [aspects of working in the wrestling industry]. The positive are the money, the comradery, the prestige, the notoriety. A lot of pluses.

  Ric Flair

  Thinking, Negative, Prestige

  Source: smackdown5.moonfruit.com

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• Wrestling is realer than reality TV.

  Diamond Dallas Page

  Reality, Tvs, Reality Tv

  Source: screenanarchy.com

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• When you are with young people, it is almost inconceivable that things wouldn't arise that you'd have to respond to, such as someone wrestling on the bus. And how you handle that, how you respond to that, how you deal with that is a lesson to the people you are on the bus with.

  Parker J. Palmer

  People, Lessons, Arise

  "The Teacher's Journey: An Interview with Parker J. Palmer". Interview with Ron Jackson, www.youthworker.com.

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• There are many moments during a match when you are tense, wrestling with yourself. Tennis is a lesson in self-control.

  Rafael Nadal

  Self, Tennis, Lessons

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I really believe that professional wrestlers are not protected. I think everybody gets a big kick out of watching them and whether the wrestling is real or not, people love watching it.

  Nancy Grace

  Real, Believe, Thinking

  Source: 411mania.com

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• Before I was married, before I was with my wife, I was traveling with Ric Flair and women were everywhere. It was crazy. The lifestyle he leads, he's the wheelin', dealin', kiss-stealin' son of a gun. He's Ric Flair and there's no one like him, there won't ever be another like him in the wrestling world again.

  Randy Orton

  Crazy, Kissing, Son

  Source: www.espn.com

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• The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Art, Fall, Dancing

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• And so I'm stupid for thinking they might be useful. Because of something Johanna Mason said while she was oiling her breasts for wrestling.

  Suzanne Collins

  Stupid, Thinking, Might

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.230, Scholastic Inc.

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• His brothers could tease him about his height or the number of scars he was collecting on his body. He could take the joke when they said he would die having never won a fair wrestling match. But the topic of Bettin still smarted too much. He'd imagined being with her always. Now when he closed his eyes, he had trouble imagining anything else.

  Shannon Hale

  Brother, Eye, Numbers

  Shannon Hale (2010). “River Secrets”, p.15, A&C Black

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• This is not to say that I wasn't completely repulsed. I mean, I wasn't exactly proud that my stepbrother was in there tongue wrestling with the second stupidest person in our class, after himself.

  Meg Cabot

  Mean, Class, Tongue

  Meg Cabot (2009). “High Stakes”, p.12, Pan Macmillan

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• As I go clowning my sentimental way into eternity, wrestling with all my problems of estrangement and communion, sincerity and simulation, ambition and acquiescence, I shuttle between worrying whether I matter at all and whether anything else matters but me.

  Stephen Fry

  Ambition, Worry, Acquiescence

  Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.152, Soho Press

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• 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.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Careers, Mind, Thrill

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• I was simply writing out our family stories in my online journal, scratching out what I want to remember, what I was wrestling out with God. Unbeknownst to me, two readers of the posts, both published authors, contacted their agent, Bill Jensen, within 24 hours of each other, encouraging him to drop me a line. Which he did.

  Ann Voskamp

  Writing, Two, Stories

  Source: www.churchleaders.com

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• We believe that our RAW team will, basically, exploit Shane's McMahon lack of regular wrestling.

  Mick Foley

  Team, Believe, Shane

  Source: in.ign.com

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• Ted Seabrooke, my wrestling coach, had a kind of Nietzschean effect on me in terms of not just his estimation of my limited abilities, but his decidedly philosophical stance about how to conduct your life, what you should do to compensate for your limitations. This was essential to me, both as a student - and not a good one - and as a wrestler who was not a natural athlete but who had found something he loved.

  John Irving

  Philosophical, Athlete, Essentials

  Interview with Suzanne Herel, www.motherjones.com. May 1997.

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• Since I knew wrestling was all choreographed, I thought, Oh, they don't get hurt at all. But I walked away with a renewed respect for the sport. Because I was very ignorant before - I knew nothing about it.

  Mickey Rourke

  Sports, Hurt, Ignorant

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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