Mick Foley Quotes

That's really what drew me into wrestling. To see my own uncle put on the mask every Friday to go into the ring, and me putting on his masks to play wrestle with him. It was a whole different world when it came down to sports.

I wasn't sure what I was getting into when I signed on to work with a wrestler.

Anybody who has wanted me to go out there and pull some emotion out and act like we are going to get down, that's what I specialize in. That's fine. That's something that I do, and that's something that I've done over the breadth of my career. With Brock Lesnar, regardless of who he is, it was going to be no different.

That is the thing that wrestling is, we are who we are. Even when we are established we are not actors. We are wrestlers.

That's what we do in WWE: we tell stories.

It was not very difficult for me to adjust in WWE because of my previous experience. Stylistically, this company is quite different from other promotions, but adapting to it is part of the job.

As great as Hulk Hogan was, he still wasn't that great a worker.

I got to doing this thing with the Wyatt Family, and I don't remember having this much fun in the ring in a long time.

A lot of people don't realize that wrestling is acting; you're playing a role and a part.

I always said when Edge and I were tag team partners that we had great chemistry together. Then we ended up parting our own ways and facing each other, and we found that chemistry again as opponents. It doesn't matter how you put Edge and myself in the ring, we're going to make sure that we give you what you pay for.

I love when I think about the SummerSlam match against The Undertaker. What a great match, wonderful story. Two wrestlers that had such great respect for one another.

My favoirte wrestler is 'Nature Boy' Ric Flair.

I like pure pro-wrestling, when it's serious in its orientation and presentation - like it's a legit sport with Jim Ross calling the action.

I've said this numerous times: I've been in the ring with Daniel Bryan, and he's the best wrestler in the world, bar none.

In professional wrestling, I'm sure in combat sports, there's always gonna be testosterone.

If you are watching television and two guys come out and you are already able to tell what the finish of that match is based on entrances alone, that's a problem.

I think guys like Cena work very hard.

As glamorous as WWE may seem, you're probably eating at a Waffle House at 1 in the morning, and you're probably going to see the Ring of Honor guys there, too.

I never really thought about the fact I wasn't world champion. It's all fake, so having a belt really means having extra weight in your luggage.

I am not the typical WWE superstar.

I'd like to work with Seth Rollins, and I'd put him over right in the middle.

Millions of wrestling fans know me as Johnny Mundo, the mayor of Slamtown.

Andy Kaufman and Jerry Lawler's match was the one thing people believed most about wrestling in the last 35 years.

Amateur wrestling was never considered a big box office draw because they're really competing but they're not getting a chance to call each other 16 kinds of names before the fight to get you interested.

In wrestling, I don't consider it acting because it's improv.