With what we were doing in ECW, the first thing you had to overcome was the fear of getting hurt.
I like to put on hardcore when I have to clean my apartment, which I hate to do, but it's motivational. I like old heavy metal when I'm outside working on my car. Music has definite functions for me.
For me, growing up in New York, it started with Elvis Costello and the Clash and then got into louder things like Bad Brains and Stimulators, because those were, like, the local bands. Then I started getting into bands from England like the Slits. I remember seeing Gang of Four at Irving Plaza; that was a really big show for me.
What is hardcore? Hardcore is not just being hardcore, hardcore is going in the ring and giving 100% of yourself. Hardcore is great fans.
We've always been hardcore rebels.
Without blood and pain, there is no Slipknot.
It started getting too crazy with 'Earth A.D.' The concepts started becoming too brutal and violent. It was less about fiction and more about the real world, the past, present, and future. I think a lot of people got freaked out by that.
I'm a hardcore performer. The rest follows.
If Mayweather wants to come over and fight in the UFC, then do it. It's hardcore here, though. I don't think it'll be a stroll in the park. Granted, he's the best boxer ever seen, just about.
We were so heavily influenced by The Replacements and by a lot of hard core bands like Bad Brains, not that we sounded like them but we were trying to play as hard and fast as we could.
I grew up hardcore. I learned to be more responsible - and fiscally responsible - you know, I just wanna be a kid again! Do a musical, have tons of time or something.
Extreme rules, hardcore wrestling - whatever they want to call it - was born out of a necessity to survive.
I don't believe in prayer, I'm a pretty hardcore agnostic.
You only have to go hardcore humiliation on the first film. On the subsequent sequels, you can coast.
I came to bring the pain hardcore from the brain
I wrote music. I was in a hardcore band when I was 14, and I wasn't good enough to play anyone else's songs, so I had to write my own.
You're not hardcore, unless you live hardcore
Look! I can't even wear glasses because my ear is missing. I'm hardcore! I'm hardcore!
I'm a street footballer. I'm hardcore. Growing up in east London, you've got to be a little bit self-confident. As a player, I would go into detail, watch who I was playing against. Who might come into my vicinity. That gives you self-confidence.
High school and college were my punk, formative years. I was playing hardcore, learning to be a musician. In bands, you tour, but you're paid nothing; you're playing to 50 people in a basement, sleeping in a van, and you love it.
Hip-hop for me has always been hardcore and edgy.
The thing about the 'Raw' after Wrestlemania, the thing is they are the real hardcore, hardcore fans. It's not your typical WWE audience.
I'm gonna bring Bad Brains vibes 'cos that's what I do.
Straight edge came out of the hardcore scene. I don't necessarily believe, as some people believe, that you have to be a part of the hardcore scene to share that philosophy and stance against recreational drug use. But it is where it came from, and it is where it influenced me to be a part of it.
Before I even started listening to rap music, I was really into metal and punk.
