110 Wrestling Quotes

Following is our list of wrestling quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about pro wrestling.

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Famous Wrestling Quotes

Wrestling... what men do during boys basketball season. - Dan Gable

Wrestling... what men do during boys basketball season. — Dan Gable

This is a sport (wrestling) that has turned many boys into men and many men into leaders. And it is a sport in which you can be a giant regardless of how big you are. — Carl Albert

Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy. - Dan Gable

Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy. — Dan Gable

Wrestling is a fraternity, and the boys will work their butts off for you as long as you respect them and don't lie. You can't anyone walk all over you or everybody will walk all over you. — Randy Savage

Anyone can wrestle until they are tired. — Cael Sanderson

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. - Marcus Aurelius

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. — Marcus Aurelius

Wrestling seemed like something I might be good at, so I stuck with it and gave it a shot. I ended up in a pretty good place. I was very fortunate. — Seth Rollins

Wrestling is very similar to gay sex, but you don't have to wear condoms. — Sayings

I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't do drugs... my addiction is wrestling - my obsession is competition. — CM Punk

To me, wrestling is therapy. No matter how bad my personal situation is, when I step into the ring, all my troubles disappear. My baggage stays in the back where it belongs. — Eddie Guerrero

I'm a huge wrestling fan. Wrestlers have so many great qualities that athletes need to have. — Bob Stoops

Wrestling is an art form. I don't worry about those who don't get it; I worry about satisfying those who do. — Paul Heyman

Wrestlers, you don't just get better from wrestling live. To improve technique, you have to learn it, then drill it. Drilling is key! — Jordan Burroughs

There are no tough guys in wrestling. - Randy Savage

There are no tough guys in wrestling. — Randy Savage

Great wrestlers make other wrestlers great — Dan Gable

Short Wrestling Quotes

  • I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it. — George Bernard Shaw
  • To be that man, you've got to beat the man. Woooo! — Ric Flair
  • You can talk about your Psalms and your John 3:16. Well, Austin 3:16 says I just whooped your *ss. — Stone Cold Steve Austin
  • Austin 3:16 says I just whipped your @$$! — Stone Cold Steve Austin
  • And that's the bottom line, cuz Stone Cold said so! — Stone Cold Steve Austin
  • Whether you like it or not, learn to love it, because its the best thing going. Wooooo! — Ric Flair
  • I came here to chew bubble gum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubble gum. — Roddy Piper
  • Just when you think you know the answers, I change the questions. — Roddy Piper
  • If you put a s infront of hitman, you have my exact thoughts on Bret Hart — Stone Cold Steve Austin
  • Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. — James A. Baldwin

Wrestling Image Quotes

If you're afraid to fail, you'll never succeed. - Dan Gable quote

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

I'm straight edge, and that means I'm better than you. - CM Punk quote

I'm straight edge, and that means I'm better than you. — CM Punk

If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything. - Marva Collins quote

If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything. — Marva Collins

You will go one on one with the Great One! - Dwayne Johnson quote

You will go one on one with the Great One! — Dwayne Johnson

I WAS YOUNG!! I WAS STUPID.. YOU TOLD ME GIRLS BOUGHT THAT MAGAZINE!! - Shawn Michaels quote

I WAS YOUNG!! I WAS STUPID.. YOU TOLD ME GIRLS BOUGHT THAT MAGAZINE!! — Shawn Michaels

The Bushwhackers are living proof that the Three Stooges had children - Gorilla Monsoon quote

The Bushwhackers are living proof that the Three Stooges had children — Gorilla Monsoon

Good Wrestling Quotes

After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him... The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut. — Will Rogers

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration. — Evan Esar

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

Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets. — William Faulkner

Fear of failure is what fuels me, keeps me on edge and sharp. I'm not as good when I'm comfortable. — Alex Rodriguez

I talk about things I'm passionate about. I talk about the wrestling business, because I love wrestling. I just love it. If I can just have good conversation with a guy who was a bada** wrestler, we're talking about something that's very near and dear to our heart. — Stone Cold Steve Austin

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

I am The Game and I am that damn good! — Triple H

Set goals - high goals for you and your organization. When your organization has a goal to shoot for, you create teamwork, people working for a common good. — Bear Bryant

If you hung him for being a good singer, you'd be hanging an innocent man! — Gorilla Monsoon

Pro Wrestling Quotes

Sportsmanship... what a load of crap, don't preach your morality to me. Steve Austin doesn't have any mercy... you want mercy? Take your *ss to church! — Stone Cold Steve Austin

Hard work pays off, dreams come true. Bad times don't last, but BAD GUYS do. - Scott Hall

Hard work pays off, dreams come true. Bad times don't last, but BAD GUYS do. — Scott Hall

Vince Mcmahon may have bought this ring but if you get your *ss in it Stone Colds going to throw your *ss out of it — Stone Cold Steve Austin

You'll find sympathy in the dictionary between sh*t and suicide. - Roddy Piper

You'll find sympathy in the dictionary between sh*t and suicide. — Roddy Piper

I love the business of pro wrestling and it is something I know better than anything else I know about. — Stone Cold Steve Austin

Why put off kicking somebody's *ss next week when I can do it right now. - The Undertaker

Why put off kicking somebody's *ss next week when I can do it right now. — The Undertaker

Ric Flair, you once called me a woman. Well, what I want to know is, how does it feel to get beat by a woman? — Roddy Piper

The best there is, the best there was, and the best there ever will be — Bret Hart

Did your parents build knows you a swing facing a wall when you were a kid? — Roddy Piper

Rowdy Roddy cut his locks; but don't worry woman, he's still a fox. - Roddy Piper

Rowdy Roddy cut his locks; but don't worry woman, he's still a fox. — Roddy Piper

Professional Wrestling Quotes

Professional wrestling is in my blood. I may have second guessed it in the past, but I know it now. — Brock Lesnar

Whatcha gonna do, when Hulkamania runs wild on you! — Hulk Hogan

I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed. — Frank DeFord

America is the only country where a significant proportion of the population believes that professional wrestling is real but the moon landing was faked. — David Letterman

It doesn't matter what you think! — Dwayne Johnson

The cutthroat part of it is that professional wrestling has no union. There are a number of people that are taken advantage of on a daily basis. — Bill Goldberg

That was my heart and that was my passion. All I ever wanted to do is wrestle. I never wanted to pitch in Game Seven of the World Series, I never wanted to throw the touchdown in the Superbowl, I wanted to wrestle...Be a professional wrestler. — Tommy Dreamer

Believe it or not, I kind of went into professional wrestling so I could get an avenue into acting. — Kurt Angle

The most important thing in the professional wrestling industry in this day and age of technology and the Internet and social media is to be able to make wrestling unpredictable. — Matt Hardy

Matt Hardy may be dysfunctional, but you can't spell dysfunctional without fun. My goal in the professional wrestling industry is to put fun into the dysfunctionality of it. — Matt Hardy

Wrest Quotes

I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings. And have never seen the day when I did not pray for them. — Robert E. Lee

The devil strains every nerve to secure the souls which belong to Christ. We should not grudge our toil in wresting them from Satan and giving them back to God. — Saint Sebastian

The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil. The animal wrests the whip from its master and whips itself in order to become master, not knowing that this is only a fantasy produced by a new knot in the master's whiplash. — Franz Kafka

[If you understood the natural rights of mankind,] [y]ou would be convinced that natural liberty is a gift of the beneficent Creator to the whole human race, and that civil liberty is founded in that, and cannot be wrested from any people without the most manifest violation of justice. — Alexander Hamilton

We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines. — Jose C. Orozco

Lawyers have been known to wrest from reluctant juries triumphant verdicts of acquittal for their clients, even when those clients, as often happens, were clearly and unmistakably innocent. — Oscar Wilde

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning. — John Dewey

It is no coincidence that when the thugs tried to wrest control over Grenada, there were 30 Soviet advisors and hundreds of Cuban military and paramilitary forces on the island. — Ronald Reagan

[Salvation] is a curious process of divine burglary. The first thing to be wrested from one by a God who said 'Thou shalt not steal' is one's good opinion of one's self. — Elizabeth Goudge

In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. — Alexander Hamilton

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More Wrestling Quotes

People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Trust me, ... I know where my heart is and my heart's right here. I'm going to keep doing everything because I love to do it, but I will never sacrifice my time between the ropes. That's no shot to anybody. Everybody's got different career paths. This is mine. — John Cena

All I care about is that people are being entertained. It's not about being the world champion [in wrestling], it's about exciting the people. If you walk away entertained, then I did my job, and that's all I care about. — Randy Savage

If wrestling can be considered an art form, then [Ric Flair] is using oils, and the many others merely water colors. — Ric Flair

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

When I'd get tired and want to stop, I'd wonder what my next opponent was doing. I'd wonder if he was still working out. I'd tried to visualize him. When I could see him working, I'd start pushing myself. When I could see him in the shower, I'd push myself harder. — Dan Gable

Confidence is only born out of one thing ­ demonstrated ability. It is not born of anything else. You cannot dream up confidence. You cannot fabricate it. You cannot wish it. You have to accomplish it. — Bill Parcells

You must show no mercy...nor have any belief whatsoever in how others judge you...for your greatness will silence them all. — The Ultimate Warrior

There's always ways of motivating yourself to higher levels. Write about it, dream about it. But after that, turn it into action. Don't just dream. — Dan Gable

If I sit next to a madman as he drives a car into a group of innocent bystanders, I can't, as a Christian, simply wait for the catastrophe, then comfort the wounded and bury the dead. I must try to wrestle the steering wheel out of the hands of the driver. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. — August Wilson

Don't think you can...know you can! Your human body is the most impressive tool that you will ever own. Even if you can't control everything...you can always control something. Your body - Use it...Amuse it...because one day...you're going to lose it. — Jeff Hardy

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