Cain Velasquez Quotes

In high school and college all my friends and my brother wrestled.

I'd like to wrestle for as long as I can.

I always wanted to wrestle, but when you're a kid, how do you do pro wrestling? For me, it seemed like the easiest way for me was to get into amateur wrestling and go that route because it was a place where I was allowed to go.

I started wrestling when I was eight years old with the amateur wrestling team in Mexico.

I watched wrestling for the first time on television while in Punjab, after which I started working seriously to become a good wrestler.

After my freshmen year of college, I really wanted to pursue wrestling.

I grew up a wrestler; for a long time in Oklahoma I was a wrestler.

When I started wrestling, I was still in high school.

When I was a kid, I wrestled my high school amateur wrestling in junior year.

I wrestled 23 straight years all over the world.

If you had asked me in my early 20s or in high school if I was going to wrestle, I would have laughed at you.

I got into wrestling when I was four years old.

I was a high school wrestler. I was city champion.

There is no age limit to wrestling.

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

I'm going to be wrestling for as long as I can. It's something I'm very passionate about and something that I love.

I really don't know life without wrestling.

There wasn't a defining moment or match or even a person that made me want to wrestle. It all just sort of happened. Kind of like puberty.

I did high school wrestling. I was first in the state of Florida and ninth in the nation in folkstyle. Freestyle and folkstyle wrestling I did for years.

In college wrestling, you see a lot of talented athletes come in and fail because Division I class wrestling is the pinnacle of wrestling in America.

I was one of the best wrestlers in Ohio.

When I came through the ranks in wrestling - in high school and college - those systems have been in place for 100 years, and they're fairly standard training across the board for all the colleges.

Wrestling has taken me on a ride and a love affair. I absolutely enjoy wrestling.

I never was an amateur wrestler.

I was an amateur wrestler, which I loved. It was my passion, but I started really late; I was a junior in high school when I began.