#wrestling

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

The way I wrestle five-year-olds makes me think if I were ever attacked by a pack of midgets, I’d be OK.
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— Jarod Kintz

#attacked #children #funny #humor #kids

Sometimes life is your opponent and just showing up is a victory. ↗

— John Passaro

#gift #handicap #keep-moving-forward #wrestling #life

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

#fate #perseverance #taoism #wrestling #harmony

ESPN has this problem with sports, it's impossible to fill 24 hours with sports programming so they have to resort to things like poker and arm wrestling tournaments. ↗

— Drew Curtis

#espn #fill #hours #impossible #like

I certainly would have regretted not getting into wrestling. It's been very lucrative for me and I've been fortunate to get into it and make money and not do anything stupid where I invested in something that collapsed. ↗

— Owen Hart

#been #certainly #collapsed #fortunate #get

I find too often in the wrestling business, you just wrestle, get to the hotel, make your money. Sometimes I have to stop and remind myself to enjoy my life and not just rush through. ↗

— Owen Hart

#enjoy #find #get #hotel #i

I owe a lot to my dad, just for having provided the wrestling business for us to get into. ↗

— Owen Hart

#dad #get #having #i #into

Not only was it that I surprised people by beating Bret Hart, but it was a great match. They still rate it as one of the best wrestling matches of all time. ↗

— Owen Hart

#best #bret #great #hart #i

There's so many documentaries out there right now and everything's exposing wrestling. ↗

— Owen Hart

#everything #exposing #many #now #out