Wrestling is ballet with violence. — Jesse Ventura

Once you’ve wrestled, everything else in life is easy — Dan Gable

Wrestling is the only sport I’ve ever competed in that puts you totally in a situation of constant [motion] without breaks. I could play football or baseball, swim — but there’s always some kind of situation that would break my thoughts, break my concentration — Dan Gable

I like a women who’s got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that’s fine. — James Hetfield

More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill – none have wrestled without pride. — Dan Gable

Wrestling has been a way of life with me day in and day out. I won’t get too far away from it. I might walk through the wrestling room once a week. I could go every day if I wanted. But just walk through, make sure it’s still there. — Dan Gable

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