#wrestling

Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day. ↗

— Roland Joffe

#becoming #best #between #ceased #city

As they say, anything can happen in the World Wrestling Federation. ↗

— Jerry Lawler

#federation #happen #say #they say #world

In wrestling, nothing exists unless it exists totally, there is no symbol, no allusion, everything is given exhaustively; leaving nothing in shadow, the gesture severs every parasitical meaning and ceremonially presents the public with a pure and full signification, three dimensional, like Nature. Such emphasis is nothing but the popular and ancestral image of the perfect intelligibility of reality. What is enacted by wrestling, then, is an ideal intelligence of things, a euphoria of humanity, raised for a while out of the constitutive ambiguity of everyday situations and installed in a panoramic vision of a univocal Nature, in which signs finally correspond to causes without obstacle, without evasion, and without contradiction. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#intelligence

I always equate wrestling to having been in the Marine Corps. ↗

— William Baldwin

#been #corps #equate #having #i

Wrestling is a team sport, and an individual sport all rolled into one. ↗

— William Baldwin

#individual sport #into #rolled #team #team sport

Most people don't know that wrestling came out of the circus. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#circus #know #most #out #people

Everybody's out there wrestling like a robot. ↗

— Hulk Hogan

#like #out #robot #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

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