Ricky Steamboat Quotes

I don't want to elbow someone; I just defend myself.

I'm Vince McMahon's favorite wrestler; quote me.

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

I'm not trying to be dirty. I'm out there to play basketball and not fight. But if it comes to the situation, one thing, know this, I'm never going to back down from anybody.

My mom was real loud and that made me speak only when spoken to. But even as a child, if you challenged me, you would get both barrels.

True wrestling fans love a great wrestling match.

I'd like to wrestle for as long as I can.

I'm interested to work with Lucha Underground and as champion that would put me in the mix to work with them.

I am a big dude that can move, so I want to see what kind of magic a guy like Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins can bring against me.

Roderick Strong - we've had some of my favorite battles.

I have been in the ring with Kevin Owens for about 12 years; I'm used to getting beat up.

I'm a wrestler, so I'm used to not being paid, and I'm used to doing five or six competitions a day and paying someone else to allow me into the event.

Daniel Bryan is a guy I'd like to mix it up with at some point - Tyson Kidd, Kevin Owens. You know, we have a lot of history in NXT, and he's another guy I've known for a long time, so there's so many different options.

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

I like to battle with defenders if I have to. I don't know where it comes from; I am not a nasty guy.

There's a couple guys that I'd like to wrestle, but truthfully, I want to wrestle as many guys as I can.

Particularly when it comes to the regulatory environment, being a jerk doesn't actually get you very far.

I understand aggressiveness in only one way: being prepared to hurt yourself, not someone else.

My entire career, everybody says I need to punch somebody.

I got into wrestling when I was four years old.

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.

I'm not going to lie. I'd love to have the mic in my hand opposite of Dixie Carter in the ring and say my piece, say what's on my mind. And if she's willing to sit there and listen to it, I think it could make for some great television.

All the territories or places I've wrestled are different. There are different styles. The WWE and TV style is also very different.

I watched wrestling for the first time on television while in Punjab, after which I started working seriously to become a good wrestler.

The wrestling is real, all the injuries are real, so much so that in no other sports, whether soccer or cricket or hockey, players get so many injuries as in WWE.