Beth Phoenix Quotes

Wrestling is a team sport, and an individual sport all rolled into one.

Wrestling is all about the power of the individual.

I always equate wrestling to having been in the Marine Corps.

Wrestling isn't like ballet; it's not about practicing a routine. You need to focus. You need to concentrate. You need to know your craft.

We play a contact sport, and it's aggressive, and you have to be aggressive in everything you do.

The best wrestlers don't hurt anyone for real.

Wrestling is a hard sport, but it's only a sport.

I enjoy wrestling. I enjoy the sport. I get to go against the world's best athletes.

You would think that wrestling has so much to do with being aggressive and having a big ego, and it's exactly the opposite.

What's cool about wrestling is that you do find yourself working with very talented and very versatile opponents.

Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.

Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve.

I was a wrestler. I played football, lacrosse. After high school, I got into jujitsu. I boxed my whole adult life.

Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.

When I was younger, I used to wrestle, and I feel that it contributed to my athletic ability because as a wrestler you have to be an all-encompassed athlete. You need stamina, strength, endurance and mental capacity. You also have to learn how to adapt in any situation.

The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a sport you play: you stand up and do it.

My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest - and everybody agreed rugby was. It's a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.

Boxing is not about your feelings. It's about performance.

Every time a football player goes to ply his trade, he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play.

I am the finest defensive player in the game.

I love being a running back. But I really love being a football player.

I used to enjoy back-picking big guys all the time.

My father taught me boxing and showed me what this beautiful sport means.

It's not for everybody, and some of the toughest people I've ever met in my lifetime, I met in the wrestling ring.

I have a very good ground game and very good wrestling. People just underestimate it. That's it. I want to keep it like that.