Jim Ross Quotes

I love the business of pro wrestling, and it is something I know better than anything else I know about.

I love being out there. as an audience member. It gives the audience a little bit of something different. Like, why are these wrestlers sitting in the audience? And why are they heckling at this guy and that guy?

There's so many documentaries out there right now and everything's exposing 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.

It's kind of beating a dead horse if you're talking about going out and saying wrestling's fake, or this or that. People don't want to hear that. They want to hear, they wanted to find an inside story.

You have to think about the WWE as soap operas.

I've always loved the showmanship of professional wrestling. While I love making movies, I love that platform, too.

My dad had a habit of giving me the Abdullah the Butcher matches as well as the ones with tables and chairs - basically, the matches that went all over the building.

For anyone who's not familiar with 'Piper's Pit,' they need to know one thing - there's absolutely no rules.

I've always just took notice of what's going on in the wrestling business and who the younger fellas are, and younger ladies, that are interested in this.

Those who have not seen wrestling before have probably tuned in to 'Lucha Underground' and go, 'Whoa! This is a TV series turned into wrestling.'

I think I have faced pretty much everyone that is in the WWE.

The WWE also embraced more of a reality-based approach to wrestling a year or two after I established it. I knew, deep down inside, were it came from. The WWE did it better than I did, and they're still here, and I'm not, but nonetheless - I knew where it came from.

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

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.

The wrestling business is my family.

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.

Lifelong wrestling fans who are discovering NXT and being like, 'Wait, this is the kind of wrestling I used to like,' or, 'I like this' - it's succinct. It's an hour long. You've got some great wrestlers, and you've got great storytelling, and it's simple, and it's gritty.

If you're in the WWE, you're a superstar.

There is so much talent! Now, we may not have at the moment that transcendent next-level 'Stone Cold' or The Rock, but I assure you, they're there.

I love professional wrestling, and I love sports entertainment.

When you put wrestlers on TV, they're the highest professionals in the business.

The WWE is the be-all and end-all of sports entertainment. They just do things right.

I didn't do choreographed fighting for a living. I was a professional wrestler for 15 years; there's a big difference.

WWE and I have a long history, and I remember some very fun days back in the day.