Josh Segarra Quotes

Long before the late '90s, being a pro-wrestler was a dream of mine. At that time, I was going around the block, searching for VHS tapes so I can watch Hulk Hogan.

I'm telling you, there have been some great finishers in the world of pro wrestling or sports entertainment. Whatever you want to call it. Man, I enjoyed the Iron Claw back in the day. I believed it was real.

Kurt Angle and Matt Hardy... I have so much respect for them.

I have always loved wrestling and grew up watching it - my earliest memories include watching Hulk Hogan.

I wasn't a wrestling fan growing up; I knew who Hulk Hogan was and stuff but I didn't watch it. I started watching wrestling about three years before I got involved with WCW.

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

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.

I grew up in rural Missouri about two hours north of St. Louis, and if the wind was blowing right on a Saturday night, I could catch All Star Wrestling out of Kansas City, which was run by Bob Geigel, and some of the stars there were Bulldog Bob Brower and Ray Candy.

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

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

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.

As a kid, growing up, my heroes all had the Intercontinental Championship. Ultimate Warrior, Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels, Mr. Perfect, Ric Rude, all of them. And they were the people I looked up to and wanted to be like.

When it comes to wrestling, I use that word instead of sports entertainment, I use wrestling all the time, because I am a wrestling fan.

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 can definitely hold my hands up and say wrestling wasn't something that I grew up watching.

Hopefully, when people watch 'Lucha Underground' and WWE, Ring of Honor, New Japan, AAA, and any other promotion out there, they fall in love with pro wrestling. Pro wrestling, as it affects pop culture, is bigger than any one promotion.

Growing up, my family wasn't really into sports, so we didn't really watch sports, and then one day I stumbled across the TV: pro wrestling.

To me, if people think about wrestling, they think about elbow drops, body slams, and stringing somebody in the circle.

I think wrestling was the most fantastical thing I was exposed to.

I'm not tired of wrestling; I love wrestling. Del Rio fans - I love my Del Rio fans.

For many many years, the MMA world shunned on the pro wrestling world. They shunned on us for getting action figures and whatnot.

I watched professional wrestling at a very early age.

I'm a wrestling fan - before I was a wrestler, I was a wrestling fan. I like watching wrestling.

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 I fell in love with wrestling, I fell in love with the characters and the over-the-top kind of personalities and the wrestling aspect of it.