(1118 quotes found)
“Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.”
Madeleine L'Engle
“Editing Hemingway was like wrestling with a god.”
Tom Jenks
“The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.”
Marcus Aurelius
“There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.”
Roland Barthes
“You need not wrestle for your good. Your good flows to you most easily when you are relaxed, open, and trusting.”
Alan Cohen
“It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired-you quit when the gorilla is tired.”
Robert Strauss
“I honestly believe that I have learned a thousand times more through and from the sport of wrestling than I have in all my academic classes put together. And I have my masters and 27 graduate credits on top of that.”
Gene Mills
“I was dating a guy that was a huge wrestling fan and I'm embarrassed to say it now but I used to make fun of him for watching it.”
Torrie Wilson
“I was a lifelong fan and a student of the wrestling business. When I got the call to come over as a consultant for that, to help with the production of a regular TV show, I was floored. It was a dream come true, like managing a football team would be for some people or whatever.”
Bob Mould
“When you think about it, you should compare the World Wrestling Federation to other major entertainment companies or motion picture studios.”
Vince McMahon
