Jim Cornette Quotes

Nobody has wrestled everybody in the business like I have, especially not Bret Hart.

I'd love to wrestle a Bruiser Brody or Andre the Giant from the past.

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.

Wrestling has become its own thing separate from what it was in the past and now when people think of pro wrestlers they don't think of Hulk Hogan, they're thinking of guys like me.

I've always been a big fan of Jim Neidhart.

I started watching wrestling when I was eight, and I only watched the WWE as a kid.

As far as memories go, I was around for the very first WrestleMania. I was a young kid upstairs at my uncle's restaurant in a change room or staff room watching it, I think, illegally, on a black and white television.

Pro wrestling has always been ingrained into American culture. It was one of the first things that was ever on television, so everybody watched it. Countless people tell me, 'I got into wrestling because my grandfather watched it.' It was always there.

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

I'm a really big fan of the history of wrestling.

I don't think there's anything else in the world that my dad loves talking about more than wrestling.

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.

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!

One day, I was flipping through the channels and I happened to flip the channel onto wrestling. I had never seen it before; I didn't know what it was. I was hooked instantly.

Texas was a hotbed for professional wrestling when I was growing up.

I hate when people talk about weekly wrestling shows that are lesser than pay-per-views. The fact is pay-per-views are longer, but the wrestling will be just as intense and exciting.

Back in the day, when I was getting into the business, you could watch Pro Wrestling Noah. You could watch Ring Of Honor Wrestling, and a lot of people would say, 'the best wrestling in the world is actually at Ring Of Honor.'

WWE is such a universal form of entertainment. I believe that you can watch WWE in mute and still know what is going on.

Memphis is like the heart of wrestling.

There's no secret I love professional wrestling. It's not just the money all the time, I love wrestling, and I love fighting.

Philadelphia is kind of like a Mecca for professional wrestling, especially the old ECW Arena down in South Philly. That's the place I always wanted to wrestle growing up, and I got that opportunity when I worked with Ring of Honor.