Kurt Angle Wrestling Quotes & Sayings

I don't like to have gimmicks. I don't like to have gadgets and stuff. I just like to go out there and entertain the fans by wrestling. — Kurt Angle

I wasn't surprised at all. In fact, I thought, why stop there? Why not add the Big Show, or Chris Jericho, or the whole state of Nebraska for that matter? And don't you think a wrestling ring is a little old school, Lilian? Why not put the match in a shark tank, with real live sharks? Hungry sharks! And the only way to beat your opponent is to stuff him down a shark's throat, and pin the shark. Wouldn't that be a hoot? — Kurt Angle

Pro wrestling is not fake; it's sports entertainment. We go out there and we perform, and a lot of what we do out there is real, but we're not going to insult anyone's intelligence - there is a predetermined winner. It's just the fans don't know who it is, and that's what makes it so intriguing. — Kurt Angle

I wanted desperately to get all hot and sweaty with this guy, but I knew from experience that hormones affected my sensibilities like alcohol or pot. In the throes of passion I tend to vow my eternal love to a penis I might use and abuse, with little regard for the man connected to it. I'm trying to keep that habit. — Susan Volland

Perhaps we can conceive of the ironist as the fetishist's apprentice, reaching out for all readers, ensnaring them in a tangle of ambiguity, uncertainty and indecision from which there is no escape. Irony, quite possibly, makes fetishists of us all. — Janet Beizer

I'd rather die standing than live on my knees. — Shania Twain

All fundamental political problems are problems of relationships; therefore, all fundamental solutions have to involve fundamental changes in relationships. — F. David Mathews

In De Rerum Natura, Lucretius pointed out a very central truth concerning the examined life. That is, that the man of science who concerns himself solely with science, who cannot enjoy and be enriched by art, is a misshapen man. An incomplete man. — William Styron

You go from Olympic wrestling into pro wrestling, and it's a very difficult transition, but if you make it, you can earn a great living while at the same time giving amateur wrestling a lot of exposure by being on TV every week. Fans know where you came from. — Kurt Angle

Hormonal problems are the top reason I find for accelerated aging, — Sara Gottfried

You just robbed a revenue cart.' 'That was neither stealing nor robbery. Whose money did we capture?' 'Why, the King's!' 'King's, you say! What right has an English King to the wealth of our land? — Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

We take pride in making our Knockouts Division about wrestling, not about looking pretty. — Kurt Angle

Wrestling is such a competitive sport worldwide. — Kurt Angle

Oh its real, its damn real — Kurt Angle

There were Italian neighbourhood and Vietnamese neighbourhoods in this city; there are Chinese ones and Ukrainian ones and Pakistani ones and Korean ones and African ones. Name a region on the planet and there's someone from there, here. All of them sit on Ojibway land, but hardly any of them know it or care because that genealogy is wilfully untraceable except in the name of the city itself. They'd only have to look, though, but it could be that what they know hurts them already, and what if they found out something even more damaging? These are people who are used to the earth beneath them shifting, and they all want it to stop-and if that means they must pretend to know nothing, well, that's the sacrifice they make. — Dionne Brand

Amateur wrestling, you can go by instinct. Pro wrestling, you have to memorize, and you have to go by what moves you said you were going to do. Sometimes you have to feel the crowd and do the moves at the right time and know the timing and tell a good story. — Kurt Angle

Pro wrestling was there, and I was good at it, thank God. I started getting a lot of offers, but unfortunately, at WWE I was under a tight leash. I think it had a lot to do with The Rock making the transition, and me possibly being the next guy - you know, the company didn't want to lose another top performer. — Kurt Angle

I love doing funny promos like the ones I did wrestling Rey Mysterio. — Kurt Angle

I'm in professional wrestling, which is what I do for a living. I coordinate stunts. I memorize them. — Kurt Angle

Hey, I drank milk that was a DAY past its expiration date. Now THAT is extreme! — Kurt Angle

It took me a few years to explain to my colleagues and my mentors and the people that I looked up to and I wrestled that I'm not in wrestling anymore. I'm in sports entertainment. Pro' wrestling doesn't mean that we're saying we're a step up above amateur wrestling, because there's nothing above Olympic wrestling. — Kurt Angle

I've been chastised for going into mixed martial arts and backing out. But the reason I backed out was the terms - they wanted me ready to fight in four weeks, but you've got to be out of your mind. So I decided to go back to my roots, back to wrestling. — Kurt Angle

Believe it or not, I kind of went into professional wrestling so I could get an avenue into acting. — Kurt Angle

You can turn a giant into a mouse just by getting him fatigued. That was my whole game plan. — Kurt Angle

You don't BOO an Olympic Gold Medalist! — Kurt Angle

What a lay me down this is
with two pink, two orange,
two green, two white goodnights. — Anne Sexton

The cool thing about pro wrestling is we do a lot more acting as far as characters in general than MMA. I know a lot of people like the MMA fighters because they like the rugged look. — Kurt Angle

I'm not going to be a guy that retires and keeps coming back. When I'm gone, I'm gone. Same thing as amateur wrestling; when I won the world championships in Olympics, I left and I never went back. Same for pro. — Kurt Angle