Terry Funk Quotes

People will respect what wrestling has to offer to this world. It will take educating themselves on more than just guys in there swinging for the fences.

When I left teaching, I don't think anyone I worked with necessarily understood what I did or the level at which I did it but I think they all do now. I think its Bullet Club stuff and what we're doing now in wrestling is, honestly, such a big part of pop culture that it's kind of hard to avoid, even if you don't follow wrestling.

I was told I have to work 10 years to get a doctorate. Well, I have worked all that time to become a doctor in professional wrestling. So to speak, I have a Ph.D. in professional wrestling.

I don't like to use the word 'fake.' A lot of our stuff is choreographed. But there is a lot of physicality that happens during the course of a match and our careers. There's a lot of physicality that happens to us and you can't deny that.

WWE is a global juggernaut; it is the pinnacle. It is a global entity. You have superstars from Australia, China, Japan.

There is this energy, a lifeblood energy that runs through Ring of Honor.

I used to perform in Calgary, Edmonton, Red Deer, Cold Lake, Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, Camrose, Kamloops, Kelowna, Surrey, and all over Western Canada for Stampede Wrestling.

ECW stands for Extremely Crappy Wrestling.

I think pro wrestling doesn't seem to get a lot of mainstream attention until somebody dies.

I don’t drink, I don’t smoke, I don’t do drugs. I kick people in the face for a living. So, if that’s something you’re into — if you like watching people get kicked in the face — come see me. I’ll probably be your favorite wrestler.

Professional wrestling has moved so far to the athleticism side and people are overly indulging in the stunt monkeys, but that's why there are so many injuries all the time. You need to break open your soul, break open your mind, and remember that pro wrestling is magic.

If professional wrestling did not exist, could you come up with this idea? Could you envision the popularity of huge men in tiny bathing suits, pretending to fight?

For sure yeah, Bullet Club is definitely synonymous with pro wrestling as a whole.

I think it's cool to be able to show people who don't know anything about NJPW what we do.

In the grand spectrum of things in WWE, you are wrestling for that camera and that camera and that camera - and all the cameras they have - and you have to make things work that way because, through that camera, there's a million people watching.

I think because of 'Total Divas,' people have gotten to know who we are and kind of see more of the personality of the divas.

I literally view wrestling as the time when I was playing with action figures. You can make anything out of it. You can make it be fun.

You want to give the fans all the sides to women's wrestling.

I would like to face everyone on the Impact roster. It is filled with amazing performers, I would be honored to share the ring with any of them.

When I fell in love with wrestling, I fell in love with the characters and the over-the-top kind of personalities and the wrestling aspect of it.

Anyone that watches WWE realizes a lot of times we do big stuff. We're considered over the top.

SummerSlam is always huge. I look at it like it is Wrestlemania.

People love to be entertained and love the different storylines that go on in pro wrestling.

Wrestling is a big game and has a good scope in India.

I got to doing this thing with the Wyatt Family, and I don't remember having this much fun in the ring in a long time.