Bruno Sammartino Quotes

There's so many documentaries out there right now and everything's exposing wrestling.

I've always just took notice of what's going on in the wrestling business and who the younger fellas are, and younger ladies, that are interested in this.

In North America, there aren't too many big places to go, so you find that pretty much all of the best talent in the world ends up filtering through WWE.

My family has been in the wrestling business for over 70 years. I'm a third-generation wrestling promoter, and years ago, when I fist started, there was a wrestling audience in the United States in 22 regions.

There's not as many passive wrestling fans as people would think. There are a lot of fans who just can't get enough, and they're almost more interested in what's going on behind the scenes and the business of wrestling then they are, necessarily, of what's going on inside of the ring.

Jon Moxley - great performer. I'm sure he's a nice guy. But at the end of the day, I think people are sick and tired of him, you know, being the captain of the ship.

What makes that turnstile turn? That's what made wrestling what it has become. The fans dictate the direction of the wrestling industry.

I'm pretty interested in documentary film, and I'd watch almost anything. At some point, I stumbled upon 'shoot interviews' and found out that wrestlers were now talking openly about things that were going on in wrestling that we as viewers were not privy to. This fascinated me.

I became a wrestling fan in college. So, I was more of a wrestling fan as an adult than when I was a little kid.

I've been talking to certain wrestlers on the phone lately, and certain female wrestlers that were huge stars ten years ago, and the first thing I ask them is 'do you still want to work?' Do they want to talk, or do they want to wrestle or do something else in the business?

First of all, I was a wrestling fan when I was young. Even when I figured out what wrestling was, I was still a fan.

I've always loved the showmanship of professional wrestling. While I love making movies, I love that platform, too.

Anything I did with the WWE was not therapeutic by any stretch of the imagination. The reality is that nobody's going to tell you that, because they have an umbilical cord hooked to Vince McMahon. I, ladies and gentlemen, do not.

I grew up watching wrestling.

All those guys wanna be us. All the fighters wanna be in professional wrestling; I don't care what they say.

Undertaker, for almost as long as many of us have been watching WWE, he's been part of it.

I have a lot of respect for the folks over at WWE, and I have a ton of respect for what they've accomplished within the industry.

My career path is the best I could have hoped for, and that's thanks to independent wrestling and territories across the world.

It's no easy job being a World Heavyweight Champion; these guys like Cena, Sheamus, these guys are modeled around that and are champs for a reason.

People can say what they want about WWE. Paul Levesque, Vince McMahon, Michael Cole - they all gave me another life by bringing me back to call NXT. That's where I should have been in the beginning.

Wrestling is a business: the more promotions the better, more opportunities for wrestlers to work.

Some people, they're seeking elsewhere, looking elsewhere. I love WWE, but this is the type of wrestling that I grew up on. And every week, it's bigger and bigger. And these shows are just getting more and more special.

Back in the day, when I was getting into the business, you could watch Pro Wrestling Noah. You could watch Ring Of Honor Wrestling, and a lot of people would say, 'the best wrestling in the world is actually at Ring Of Honor.'

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

I really don't feel like just going to WWE is the absolute end-all, be-all in wrestling.