It's good to go out and entertain these people, and you've got them on the edge of their seat, they're standing up. Then you know that you've done your job, you've entertained them. My way of entertaining them is going out and wrestling. Everyone's got their different ways.
One of the things I discovered in Japan was from watching sumo wrestling. At the end you can never tell who has won the fight, and who has lost, because they do not show their emotion because it could embarrass the loser. It is unbelievable. That is why I try to teach my team politeness. It is only here in England that everybody pokes their tongue out when they win.
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.
Well, Im wrestling alligators.
I don't need to go over a fight scene a million times. I got it. It comes very naturally to me to do that. And our industry is a little more physical than I think some people know, with regard to how much contact is made between WWE Superstars when we're wrestling a match. Whereas on set, sometimes actors aren't familiar with that sort of physicality.
There are hard texts in each tradition which we must confront and ask ourselves, 'Can we reinterpret those texts to allow us to live peaceably, and respectfully, with people of other faiths?' That is a job only Jews can do for Judaism, only Christians can do for Christianity, and only Muslims can do for Islam. But sometimes the sight of someone in one faith wrestling with that faith can empower you to wrestle with another faith.
You'll find sympathy in the dictionary between sh*t and suicide.
I wrote another wrestling film script. And we finished the shooting [with Lloyd Phillips]. But Henry Winkler came out with his own wrestling film, which did poorly. So the studios passed on ours, and it never got released.
We wrestle with our own opponents on a daily basis. These challengers can come in numerous forms whether it be a physical challenge, emotional, or even relational issues that can overtake us. No matter what opponent we are wrestling against we can be UNSTOPPABLE.
The leader demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.
The Bible is not a book that you can open and say, 'Now, Lord, put some magic into my soul that will open up the meaning of this book. ' There is only one way really to understand the Word, and that is through wrestling with the circumstances and happenings of life.
Wrestling needs to be about the art form again. It needs to be about painting a picture and having a really good match.
I think health-wise, pro-wrestling is probably ten times worse for you than MMA.
For every little kid who still believes in Santa Claus, there is at least one adult who still believes in professional wrestling.
You can have a wrestling idea, but you need to have these momentum-shifting moves. We had the Hulkamania movement, then it shifted to the beer-drinking, Stone Cold era, we reinvented the business with growing the black beard and becoming the bad guy, what's that next level.
My advice to young wrestlers is that your surroundings really make a difference. You want to put yourself in good, positive surroundings.
Our attitude is the primary force that will determine whether we succeed or fail.
I got to ninth grade and there was wrestling, and I went, 'Wait a minute, this is fun. ' Basically, it was a chance for a small kid like me to get a chance to wail on another small kid. I went, 'I love this. ' The discipline of it was great. Plus, I really started to be good at it.
War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.
After watching wrestling for 20 years, I thought I had enough confidence to do it. There were no wrestling schools at the time.