Bruno Sammartino Quotes

I got into wrestling at the age of 4 or 5. I didn't watch WWE until later.

My true love is with amateur wrestlin;, that's where I was born. I've always wanted to wrestle.

I started wrestling when I was 15 years old, and back when I was world champion, I was wrestling 7 nights a week.

In the WWF, or the WWE as they call it now, the one thing that I was not able to capture was that heavyweight belt. I'm telling you, I want a chance to be able to go after that belt, but only if Brock Lesnar has it, or The Rock has it, or Kurt Angle has it.

I really don't know life without wrestling.

I love wrestling. That's not going to change.

The best wrestler in the world is me.

I had a long career that started when I was 17. I wrestled for 20 years, so people forget how long I actually wrestled for.

I can definitely hold my hands up and say wrestling wasn't something that I grew up watching.

Wrestling in the Midwest is always such a blast, and a favorite place of mine.

I was never a fan of Hogan because I was never impressed with his quality of performance in the ring.

Kurt Angle and Matt Hardy... I have so much respect for them.

If you can believe it, I had no intentions of being a wrestler.

There is a difference between being a wrestler and being a pro wrestler.

I wrestled 23 straight years all over the world.

One week, you're facing Daniel Bryan, and next week, you're teaming with AJ Styles. You're in the ring with the best in the world. Part of me wants to tell myself they don't just put anybody in the ring with them. I obviously want to be as good as them, and I feel like I can be and I can hang with them.

People at WWE would say, 'It doesn't matter if you're the best wrestler,' but I would think about Dean Malenko and Chris Benoit and Rey Mysterio. They weren't necessarily the greatest talkers, but they were great wrestlers. I wanted to be that person.

Amateur wrestling was never considered a big box office draw because they're really competing but they're not getting a chance to call each other 16 kinds of names before the fight to get you interested.

I'm not tired of wrestling; I love wrestling. Del Rio fans - I love my Del Rio fans.

I think CM Punk is a hell of an in-ring performer.

Growing up in wrestling - and I have been involved in wrestling, really, my entire life - I learned right from the get-go that you never forget your fans. They are the ones that put your food on the table and pay your bills.

As great as Hulk Hogan was, he still wasn't that great a worker.

Through wrestling, my second home was Fort Myers, Florida.

Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson were not giants, they were giants in the ring, they drew money, people loved them and that's what you find in the Young Bucks.

I don't know anything about CM Punk. I'd never even heard of him until he was mentioned in UFC. I wouldn't know him if I walked past him in the street, I don't know... he might be a good wrestler but there are people in the UFC who are just good wrestlers.