Diamond Dallas Page Quotes

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.

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

To many generations of fans, Hulk Hogan really represents the beginning of what became this amazing industry that we have.

It's the fans that dictate what wrestling is. That's the one constant from 1917 to 2017.

I'm coming to AEW because I believe in what they are doing.

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.

People are finally figuring it out that, at the end of the day, that WCW created some of the best talent in the history of the world. It was a great run.

I remember when I had just left WWE and I was wrestling in England and Germany, I could just tell that this influx of this new wave of wrestling was coming much like it felt when I began wrestling back in '99.

I went to my tryout in WWE, and I think within like six weeks, it was really fast for me, I was like down there, moved to Tampa, and the rest was history.

All the people who were on WSX Season 1 are the life blood of the alternative wrestling business, and now the mainstream wrestling business as well. That is what Lucha Underground is doing.

I would like to see Jay Lethal and Dalton Castle join the company. Both have made their name in Ring of Honor, and their addition can make WWE a very exciting place.

When I signed with WWE I was really happy that they had the PG thing going on. I thought, 'Yes! No more bra and panties matches, no bikini contests.'

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.

I exposed myself, and I exposed my relationship and deep love and trust for Ibushi in front of the world. And we want to work together and change wrestling for a brighter future.

The main events of '205 Live' are always among the discussion as far as top acts of the week in the world.

On the 'SmackDown' side, A.J. Styles really has been phenomenal.

I would consider myself a casual fan growing up because obviously wrestling was such a huge part of pop culture, and still is. I was a fan as much as it was a part of pop culture.

WWE is a global juggernaut; it is the pinnacle. It is a global entity. You have superstars from Australia, China, Japan.

I think Sting would be denying his fans a great moment if Sting did not step into WWE competition at least once. I have always been a huge admirer of what Sting brings to the table and his relationship with his audience, and I would be dramatically disappointed if Sting does not wrestle a WWE match.

I started watching wrestling when I was eight, and I only watched the WWE as a kid.

WWE dropped the ball with 'Tough Enough.'

Vince Russo knows about as much about wrestling as Eric Bischoff does.

The monster that NXT has grown into is nothing short of unbelievable.

The joke we always say is that WWE doesn't pay us to wrestle, they pay us to travel.

I got my break in the business with the now-defunct Bill Watts' TWF, the old Mid-South. Which was really, in many ways, the predecessor to ECW in its time, in that age. It was a really cool, high-impact, snug type of product.