Mustafa Ali Quotes

If you had asked me in my early 20s or in high school if I was going to wrestle, I would have laughed at you.

I wrestled 23 straight years all over the world.

I started wrestling when I was eight years old with the amateur wrestling team in Mexico.

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

In high school and college all my friends and my brother wrestled.

After watching wrestling for 20 years, I thought I had enough confidence to do it. There were no wrestling schools at the time.

I really don't know life without wrestling.

Everything about me is favored towards wrestling.

Once I started wrestling, I really got into it, and I just knew that I wanted to do that - I wanted to wrestle all the way through college.

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 was one of the best wrestlers in Ohio.

I was a high school wrestler. I was city champion.

There is no age limit to wrestling.

After my freshmen year of college, I really wanted to pursue wrestling.

I grew up a wrestler; for a long time in Oklahoma I was a wrestler.

I never was an amateur wrestler.

I'm going to be wrestling for as long as I can. It's something I'm very passionate about and something that I love.

I started wrestling when I was 15 years old, and back when I was world champion, I was wrestling 7 nights a week.

I never trained in pro wrestling with The Sheik, but I did amateur wrestling with pro wrestlers in my dad's basement.

I love wrestling. That's not going to change.

When I started wrestling, I was still in high school.

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

When I was a kid, I wrestled my high school amateur wrestling in junior year.

Wrestling in the Midwest is always such a blast, and a favorite place of mine.