Michael Buffer Quotes

I have always been a big fan of combat sports - ever since I can remember, it was something that appealed to me and something that I thought I would be good at.

Some guys can do more talking in the ring, other guys do posing, body building, whatever the hell they do in the ring. But I don't have the big body, and I'm not the big smooth talker, but I can get in the ring and wrestle.

But I was very much into sports when I was a child.

I have never cared especially for outdoor sports and have no desire to excel at tennis, swimming, or golf. I'll leave those things to the men.

When you're a kid that's all you want to do, go out and play football.

I never excelled at one sport or had a very strong passion for anything other than wrestling and bodybuilding.

When I was wrestling, I was 19, I was young.

I was a pretty popular kid, and I participated in every sport.

M dad was a boxer, so he had this fierce, physical presence.

I did every sport under the sun while growing up.

I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house.

I've always been a guy who wants to play sports, not watch them.

I was one of those kids who, everything I tried sports-related, I liked.

Growing up, I was always a fan of wrestling, but I was also a fan of MMA and stuff.

My mom used to be a basketball player so I was really into it. Plus of course my height made it easier for me to decide what kind of sport I wanted to play, so at the age of nine I went to my first basketball practice.

Everything about me is favored towards wrestling.

If people will pay to see it, I'll fight anyone in any sport.

I feel I have the power and the skillset to compete in any division up to welterweight.

I got into wrestling at the age of 4 or 5. I didn't watch WWE until later.

Young Petr Cech was sports mad, football mad.

I like a girl who can be a girl but also ready to play basketball.

I played volleyball, basketball, softball, and I started to love soccer the most around 7-8 years old because it was a physical game. I could use my speed and strength to my advantage.

I always wanted to wrestle, but when you're a kid, how do you do pro wrestling? For me, it seemed like the easiest way for me was to get into amateur wrestling and go that route because it was a place where I was allowed to go.

Growing up, I always wanted to play a fighter.

From the beginning, when my brother Vadim first took me to the boxing gym at 10, I was able to punch hard, and the coach always put me with older boys because of that.