The 130+ Greatest Wrestling Quotes of All Time

No matter what your favorite sport is, there are always great quotes that come out of it. Wrestling is no exception! In this blog post, we will take a look at some of the best wrestling quotes of all time. Whether you are a fan of WWE or independent wrestling, these quotes will inspire and entertain you. So without further ado, let’s get started!

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Wrestling Quotes

1. “There’s no drama like wrestling.” – Kane
2. “Wrestling is my first love.” – Randy Orton
3. “Never back down and never quit.” – John Cena
4. “WIFE = Wrestling Is For Ever.” – M.Rehan Behleem
5. “Wrestling is ballet with violence.” – Jesse Ventura
6. “MATT HARDY WILL NOT DIE” – Matt Hardy, The Hardy Boyz
7. “You just wrestle in what you’re wearing.” – Christian
8. “Know your role and shut your mouth!” – Dwayne Johnson
9. “Practice without improvement is meaningless.” – Chuck Knox
10. “Never stop fighting till the fight is done!” – Elliot Ness
11. “Wrestling is not an action; it is a sport.” – Anushka Sharma
12. “If you’re afraid to fail, you’ll never succeed.” – Dan Gable
13. “Determination is the strength needed to succeed.” – Dan Gable
14. “Two people throwing each other. That’s a blast.” – Gary Mayabb
15. “Wrestling―what men do during boys basketball season.” – Dan Gable
16. “Can you smell what ‘Dwayne Johnson’ is cooking?” – Dwayne Johnson
17. “Once you’ve wrestled, everything else in life is easy.” – Dan Gable
18. “Every day I turned a ‘you can’t’ into a ‘you can.’” – Rulon Gardner
19. “They say I’m insane; I say thank you very much.” – Rowdy Roddy Piper
20. “Whether fighting or spitting, my discipline is unforgiving!” – John Cena
21. “Justice is not the wrestling, justice is a battle” – P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar
22. “The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.” – Marcus Aurelius
23. “Wrestling is something that nothing else can replace for me.” – Daniel Bryan
24. “War has rules, mud wrestling has rules – politics has no rules.” – Ross Perot
25. “Wrestling’s a form of expression, and it expresses vastness.” – John Darnielle
26. “Always remember the pain of defeat, and never let it happen again.” – Dan Gable
27. “Success isn’t always about greatness, it’s about consistency.” – Dwayne Johnson
28. “It is not over. Champions extend their limits and make things happen.” – Amit Ray
29. “I like to think I proved a wrestler’s skin color doesn’t matter.” – Rocky Johnson
30. “Never wrestle with a strong man nor bring a rich man to court.” – Latvian Proverb
31. “Wrestling is one of the last truly rebellious American things left.” – Billy Corgan
32. “You’re throwing The Rock out? No wonder WCW went out of business.” – Dwayne Johnson
33. “When I’m good, I’m good, brother but when I’m bad, I’m better.” – Rowdy Roddy Piper
34. “No matter what kind of wrestler, everyone is afraid of getting tired.” – J. Robinson
35. “I go out and give it 110% every time I’m out there. I try hard.” – Rowdy Roddy Piper
36. “If Shakespeare was alive today he would be writing wrestling shows.” – Chris Jericho
37. “You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.” – John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire
38. “No matter what kind of wrestler, everyone is afraid of getting tired.” – Jay Robinson
39. “If your goal isn’t to be on top, then you don’t deserve to be here.” – Big E Langston
40. “I bring smiles to people’s faces. I also stand on people’s faces. Balance.” – CM Punk
41. “When I wrestled, I always considered myself an athlete and a wrestler.” – Rocky Johnson
42. “I’m the best there is, the best there was, and the best there ever will be.” – Bret Hart
43. “Wrestling and boxing is like Ping-Pong and rugby. There’s no connection.” – Mickey Rourke
44. “A tie is what you get after ice cubes have wrestled with hot water.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
45. “Wrestling is a team sport, and an individual sport all rolled into one.” – William Baldwin
46. “Hard work pays off, dreams come true. Bad times don’t last, but bad guys do.” – Scott Hall
47. “Everything I do is to become better, the best ever and I’m not going to stop.” – Dolph Ziggler
48. “I am not the biggest, I am not the strongest, but I am **** sure the toughest!” – Daniel Bryan
49. Blood, sweat and respect. The first two you give. The last you earn. Give it. Earn it.” – The Rock
50. “I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler.” – Socrates
51. “Our attitude is the primary force that will determine whether we succeed or fail.” – John C. Maxwell
52. “The weird thing about me is that I’m naturally an introvert, so I don’t talk to people.” – Eli Drake
53. “When you see the Statue of Liberty, you will be in America.” – Antonio Russo, Wrestling with the *****
54. “When the day comes when you don’t believe in yourself, there’s the door. Get the h*ll out.” – John Cena
55. “To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.” – Muhammad Ali
56. “Blood, sweat, and respect. The first two you give. The last you earn. Give it. Earn it.” – Dwayne Johnson
57. “Champions never sleep, the eternal spirit keep them alert and awake.” – Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step
58. “It’s kind of beating a dead horse if you’re talking about going out and saying wrestling’s fake.” – Owen Hart
59. “–What’s going on in there? –Let me see. –Some kind of homo grappling ****.” – Yusaku Hanakuma, Tokyo Zombie
60. “In wrestling, there’s a shelf life, and some wrestlers don’t pay attention to the shelf life.” – Dwayne Johnson
61. “Inside the room, a man and a woman were wrestling. They were both naked.” – George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
62. “Wrestling teaches you nothing comes easy. Nothing in life comes easy, so you have to work at it.” – Mike Sullivan
63. “Wrestling is a universal language. The moves, the facial expressions, most people understand.” – Shinsuke Nakamura
64. “I never won anything by myself. I was always strong because of help that gave me extra strength to win.” – Dan Gable
65. “Sometimes life is your opponent and just showing up is a victory.” – John Passaro, In the Zone and Other Sports Essays
66. “Don’t be afraid to be ambitious about your goals. Hard work never stops. Neither should your dreams.” – Dwayne Johnson
67. “When you’re wrestling with life and/or yourself and getting the beat down, don’t forget to tag God in!” – Sanjo Jendayi
68. “The only person that is going to tell you that you can’t do things in life are people who have failed.” – Chris Jericho
69. “When you’re wrestling with life and, or yourself and getting the beat down, don’t forget to tag God in!” – Sanjo Jendayi
70. “I happen to be a three-time former WWF champion and a hardcore legend, and I never had my own dressing room.” – Mick Foley
71. “I can take anyone down at any time; they can’t take me down; no one can ride or turn me; I can control anyone.” – Dan Gable
72. “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
73. “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
74. “No activity I know is more of a confidence builder and the same at time more humility training than wrestling.” – James Leach
75. “In Mexico, wrestling is part of the cultural fabric. The guys wear masks and they are real-life superheroes.” – Chris Jericho
76. “Anybody can win the matches you can dominate, but it’s the tough matches that are going to make the difference.” – Jim Zalesky
77. “Excuse The Rock for one second, his cell phone is going off. Hello? Hey, it’s nothing. He says he knows you!” – Dwayne Johnson
78. “It’s a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don’t quit when you’re tired―you quit when the gorilla is tired.” – Robert Strauss
79. “Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit. Give everything you got today for tomorrow may never come.” – Dan Gable
80. “In wrestling, my mustache made me look more like a villain. A good mustache can give you the look of the *****.” – Jesse Ventura
81. “Gold medals aren’t really made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.” – Dan Gable
82. “What’s the key to success? The key is, there is no key. Be humble, hungry, and the hardest worker in any room.” – Dwayne Johnson
83. “Wrestling will be around forever. It’s been around thousands of years. It’s going to be around till the end of time.” – Mark Schultz
84. “I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’” – Muhammad Ali
85. “Wrestling needs to be about the art form again. It needs to be about painting a picture and having a really good match.” – Hulk Hogan
86. “The only things that matter in wrestling are your teeth and your testicles. Anything else, keep wrestling, stop whining.” – Gary Dierks
87. “A lot of my intensity in wrestling was due to my mental preparation before the matches. I got myself into a different world.” – Dan Gable
88. “I had to realize that everyone has opinions, and they all have the right to feel a certain way, and you have to respect that.” – Randy Orton
89. “It seems like it has been forever. But i getbthe feeling that forever hasn’t even started yet.” – John Passaro, 6 Minutes Wrestling With Life
90. “I’m not interested in being famous. I’m interested in doing my job and doing it well, and that’s wrestling, and that’s what I love.” – AJ Lee
91. “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
92. “…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
93. “The best wrestling characters are an extension of your real-life personality, and I’ve always been a bit of an attention seeker.” – Tenille Dashwood
94. “My advice to young wrestlers is that your surroundings really make a difference. You want to put yourself in good, positive surroundings.” – Dan Gable
95. “Life is like a wrestling match: a lot of times, things are looking good, and then something happens, and you’re fighting from underneath.” – Matt Hardy
96. “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
97. “Wrestling and sports entertainment is not about the moves, it really isn’t. It’s about being able to evoke emotion in one facet or another.” – The Undertaker
98. “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
99. “First, I’m going to teach you how to Irish Whip someone.” “Oh, that sounds kinky. I want my safeword to be peaches,” I said, grinning.” – Kyle Adams, Prize Package
100. “More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill none have wrestled without pride.” – Dan Gable
101. “Professional wrestling is a beautiful yet cruel mistress. She will treat you well and treat you horribly, but outside of my family, it is my one true love.” – Luke Harper
102. “The combination of old and new is what every wrestling organization should be like. That way, you have a chance to match up the legends in dream main events.” – Dusty Rhodes
103. “The first period is won by the best technician. The second period is won by the kid in the best shape. The third period is won by the kid with the biggest heart.” – Dan Gable
104. “Being in this industry isn’t for everyone, that’s for sure. Wrestling consumes your whole life―for me that’s fine, it’s what I want, but for others not so much.” – Tenille Dashwood
105. “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
106. “I grew up on a farm, and I always learned when you work, you go forward, you don’t stop and say, well, I’ll take a break. You always go forward and get the job done.” – Rulon Gardner
107. “Wrestling and acting couldn’t be any more different in terms of what it takes to entertain. Wrestling is explosion, acting is implosion. One really screws up the other.” – Roddy Piper
108. “Not since the Kennedy’s of Massachusetts has an American family publicly suffered personal tragedy after personal tragedy like the Von Erichs of Denton County, Texas.” – Ron G. Mullinax
109. “Even before I got to WWE, I studied Triple H. He was one of my favorite superstars; his wrestling was ruthless, and I think a lot of his style you can see in me a little bit.” – Sheamus
110. “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
111. “People dream to be in the WWE, but my dream is to be the best in the WWE. They can have the money and fame. My dream is to become known as the greatest wrestler of all time.” – Sasha Banks
112. “I have nice muscle tone in my arms. I can’t really take credit for it, though – all the members of my family do. A lot of arm wrestling happened in our family growing up!” – Michelle Monaghan
113. “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.” – Vince Lombardi
114. “In order to become a wrestler, one should have the strength of a weight-lifter, the agility of an acrobat, the endurance of a runner, and the tactical mind of a chess master.” – Alexander Medved
115. “It just goes to show, if you remain focused and you have a dream and you have a desire to do something, then no matter what gets in your way, you can never lose hope. It’s possible.” – Rey Mysterio
116. “Don’t you ever, and ‘Dwayne Johnson’ means ever, come at ‘Dwayne Johnson’ and ask him a question like that again or else ‘Dwayne Johnson’ will knock your teeth so far down your throat!” – Dwayne Johnson
117. “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
118. “If you can wrestle but not play Jiu Jitsu, or you can play Jiu Jitsu but not wrestle, you are not a complete grappler and lack the sufficient skills to safely subdue an opponent.” – Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
119. “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
120. “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
121. “I would say wrestling gives you confidence. It gives you strength. It helps you learn discipline, and to know that you have to love the process and respect the process, and if you just keep going, you can accomplish anything.” – Alexa Bliss
122. “Wrestling has been a way of life with me day in and day out. I won’t get too far away from it. I might walk through the wrestling room once a week. I could go every day if I wanted. But just walk through, make sure it’s still there.” – Dan Gable
123. “The most important thing about being in wrestling is that you have to connect with the crowd, connect with the fans, and you either want them to love you, or to hate you. Either way, so long as they’re reacting to what you’re doing.” – Chris Jericho
124. “I’ve always wanted to entertain people, and when I was in school, I was interested in creative writing, but wrestling was always there. When I ran into financial problems, I just figured when life gives you lemons, you have to make lemonade.” – AJ Lee
125. “The obvious goals were there―State Champion, NCAA Champion, Olympic Champion. To get there I had to set an everyday goal which was to push myself to exhaustion or, in other words, to work so hard in practice that someone would have to carry me off the mat.” – Dan Gable
126. “Wrestling is the only sport I’ve ever competed in that puts you totally in a situation of constant motion without breaks. I could play football or baseball, swim—but there’s always some kind of situation that would break my thoughts, break my concentration.” – Dan Gable
127. “Know what is in your heart. But definitely go to school and learn as much as you can, and if wrestling is still what you want, find a good wrestling school and kind of learn as much information about it as you can. If I did it, this tiny thing, anyone can do it.” – AJ Lee
128. “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
129. “When I was really little, I wanted to be a wrestler so I could be like the girls I looked up to. My brother then told me, ‘You don’t want to be like your idols; you want to grow up and be better than them.’ To this day, that’s the best piece of advice I’ve ever gotten.” – AJ Lee
130. “…faithfully pray and God will answer our prayer. That’s the part I was struggling with. But then he added that God will always let us know what He wants us to do. God will let you know…” – Shawn Michaels, Wrestling for My Life: The Legend, the Reality, and the Faith of a WWE Superstar
131. “All those guys on the wrestling team, though – they scare me. And they’re so homophobic… well, you can’t help wondering about their sexual orientation, I mean they all think I’m gay, but you wouldn’t catch me in a pair of tights grabbing some other guys inner thigh.” – Meg Cabot, Shadowland
132. “A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.” – Vince Lombardi
133. “We spend 8 hours a day, for 10 months a year, for nearly 17 years sending our kids to school to prepare them for life. In all of that time there is never a course in overcoming adversity, goal setting, sacrifice, perseverance, teammates, or family. I guess that’s what wrestling is for.” – John A. Passaro
134. “I’m not trying to brainwash my critics. If they’re critics, they’re critics, and that’s their job to be critical, but I certainly enjoy the involvement I have with my fans. I enjoy the time I get to spend with them, and I don’t waste time with someone stubborn who is not going to come around.” – John Cena
135. “The sport of wrestling is a tremendous builder of the values and characteristics which are needed to succeed in any walk of life. Much of what I have managed to achieve in life I owe directly to the years I spent in the wrestling room, as an athlete and a coach. Wrestling is a great educational tool.” – Dennis Hastert
136. “It’s so important just to be true to yourself and to own your own character and take responsibility for it, and speak up and say, ‘This isn’t right; this isn’t me.’ It’s a great lesson, not just in wrestling but in life. If you’re not feeling something that’s true to your heart―everybody’s gotta be true.” – Becky Lynch
137. “But it’s the wrestler who can put the fatigue out of his mind and break through the ‘wall’, like a marathon runner after 18 or 20 miles, who will survive. The key to that survival is in hard workouts that develop the mental confidence to the point where you won’t submit to fatigue and pain descending upon you.” – Lou Banach
138. “No exercise brings into play all the muscles of the body in a more thorough manner, and none is more interesting than wrestling. He will find no other exercise more valuable in the cultivation of faculties which will help him to success in agility, strength, determination, coolness, and quick exercise of judgement.” – Hugh Leonard
139. “When I was 12, I was living in Iowa, and I emailed so many wrestling schools, and one of them was actually in Boston. I joined it at 18―the New England Pro Wrestling Academy. They were doing a fantasy camp. I was 17 about to turn 18. I told my mom, ‘I’m 18 now. I just signed these papers by myself, and I’m going to do this.’” – Sasha Banks
140. “Take a strong wrestler, get them tired, and they aren’t as strong. Take a quick wrestler, get them tired, and they aren’t as quick. Take a technical wrestler, get them tired, and they aren’t as technical. No matter what kind of wrestler, everyone is afraid of getting tired. It’s those who learn to perform when they’re tired that find success.” – Jay Robinson

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Wrapping Up

These are over 130 of the greatest wrestling quotes of all time. Whether you’re a fan or an athlete, there is something to be learned from each and every one of these quotes – they can provide inspiration, motivation and wisdom for both your personal and professional life. So let these words fill your heart with courage and ambition, and take them with you wherever you go. And never forget: the only easy day was yesterday!