#wrestling

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

#became #coached #competed #contact #discipline

Wrestling is ballet with violence. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#ballet #violence #wrestling

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. ↗

— Dwayne Johnson

#like #me #stand-up #stand-up comedy #wrestling

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining. ↗

— Dwayne Johnson

#comedy #craziest #entertaining #every #every night

If I play my cards right, I could bring network wrestling back to TV. Unfortunately, to most people, wrestling is a laughingstock. But fortunately, I'm reaching people who otherwise wouldn't watch it. ↗

— Andy Kaufman

#bring #cards #could #fortunately #i

There's no drama like wrestling. ↗

— Andy Kaufman

#like #wrestling

I was dating a guy that was a huge wrestling fan and I'm embarrassed to say it now but I used to make fun of him for watching it. ↗

— Torrie Wilson

#embarrassed #fan #fun #guy #him

Each culture has its own form of staged combat, evolved from its particular method of street fighting and cleaned up for presentation as a spectacle, e.g. savate, Cornish wrestling, karate, kung-fu. ↗

— David Mamet

#combat #culture #each #evolved #fighting

After watching wrestling for 20 years, I thought I had enough confidence to do it. There were no wrestling schools at the time. ↗

— Hulk Hogan

#confidence #enough #had #had enough #i

OSHA had come in and looked at the channel 5 studios and it sort of had something to do with wrestling, but they found that there were some safety concerns that had to be addressed. ↗

— Jerry Lawler

#channel #come #concerns #found #had