Jim Cornette Quotes

You can only really judge yourself in comparison to other people. How bad you are, but you're not as bad as someone else. So it's degrees of losing.

Wrestling died. It had a comeback in the early '90s just through word of mouth with Brian Dixon's shows.

I can't compare quarterbacks as apples and oranges in my mind because everybody's in a different system.

You see, 30 years ago I didn't have near the audience I have now. My tapes on the cults have reached a circulation of 15 million. those are not my figures but the figures of the people who distribute them.

Basketball isn't as popular in Canada as it is in the US. Hockey is by far the most popular sport in Canada.

If I play my cards right, I could bring network wrestling back to TV. Unfortunately, to most people, wrestling is a laughingstock. But fortunately, I'm reaching people who otherwise wouldn't watch it.

I never have that 'we were robbed' feeling when looking around now at where some of our contemporaries are.

I know, but I had a better year than Hoover.

Well, I did Marlene 15 years ago and that's in the style. It's somehow similar and not similar because Marlene was much more aggressive, funny and sad.

The aura of soccer is very different from other sports.

It's not just the players, it's the culture. Sometimes it's the people around them; the people who are looking after them - the money they're given. Some of the families give up their jobs and live off their sons. That would never have happened 10 years ago.

All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was.

Twenty years ago, you'd see guys busting rackets in locker rooms. Today they do it in their hotel rooms.

It's hard to compare. Different times, different players. The administration four years ago did not have 9/11. I could tell you this; this particular administration was better suited to handle that than the former.

True, our economy is better than the economies of the otehr conties of the world. However ... that is like saying that we are the healthiest horse in the glue factory.

I do think human beings cannot be faulted for wishing to judge themselves and their lives and their achievements by others around them; that is a natural human feeling.

When I came on the tour, I thought, 'Why don't they treat tennis players the same way they look at football players?' Because I've got news for you: when they are on the pitch, they are not saying, 'Hello, how are you?' out there.

Years ago, the NFL influenced what happened in college. It's the other way around now.

Football is getting bigger but ice hockey is still the biggest sport back home.

Maybe I was an even better cricketer than a footballer.

A lot of people say, 'What set the Attitude Era up?' or, 'What started the Attitude Era?' To me - and I was allegedly the leader of it - sports entertainment, pro wrestling, whatever you want to call it has always had an attitude. So, why that particular generation got labeled, I don't know.

I love the wrestling business. The wrestling business will never die. It will be around forever.

Wrestling is cyclical. And if you look at the '80s, it had an unbelievable run, and then it just fell down. '90s had the biggest run ever because of the Monday Night Wars.

I think the way British wrestling lost its way in the mid '80s was that the athleticism and the sporting side to the drama kind of went away and it almost became a joke of a TV show.