Jim Cornette Quotes

The Attitude Era was so great because you had the best collection of superstars of any one time period. You had The Rock, Stone Cold, Undertaker, Mick Foley.

I grew up in Tampa, Florida, and St. Pete, Tampa, the Tampa Bay area, and that was the home of Championship Wrestling from Florida with Gordon Solie, Dusty Rhodes, and it was just... I mean, for storylines and angles and promos, it was second to none.

WWE is the biggest entity in professional wrestling and if you want to prove yourself to be one of the greatest or one of the best, then that's the only place you can do it.

I was a Ric Flair and Dusty Rhodes guy. Ric Flair continues to be my favorite wrestler of all time. I loved Harley Race and Nick Bockwinkel and all of those guys, but I'm a big Flair guy.

My inspirations were 'Macho Man' Randy Savage and Andre the Giant. It was easy to understand their character.

I was a huge fan of Rick Rude and Arn Anderson. There's many guys, many performers in the past who turned me into the sports entertainer I am today.

I was always impressed by the Road Warriors and Legion of Doom. They were just so large and bigger than life in every possible way.

I love professional wrestling, and I love sports entertainment.

Tully was the first young, handsome, cocky, well-dressed bad guy. He was our version of Ric Flair before I knew who Ric Flair was. This was before cable TV or any of that, and Tully was our Ric Flair.

The best incarnation of The Four Horsemen was undoubtedly the unit comprised of Ric Flair, Barry Windham, Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard, along with talented manager JJ Dillon, which will be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2012.

When you see Bret Hart versus Steve Austin, it just seemed so much more real than Hulk Hogan versus Sgt. Slaughter.

I wrestled my guys growing up. I've wrestled with Hulk Hogan. I've wrestled against Shawn Michaels. I've wrestled against Ric Flair.

It was acting, and WWE is the longest-running weekly episodic program in television. Sure, there are story lines that are better than others.

You have to think about the WWE as soap operas.

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.

I'd love to go into WWE and have a real knock and see what's what.

As a kid, I loved watching it. I used to watch with my sisters and my brothers. We watched WWE all the time.

I grew up watching wrestling.

I affirmatively have watched WWE programming my whole entire life!

I want to be on 'SmackDown' because it has AJ Styles, Randy Orton, and John Cena - a lot of dream matches I can do.

When I was around nine, my parents took me to my first live event, which was a WWE show with Ultimate Warrior. From then on, I loved 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.

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.