Shinsuke Nakamura Quotes

Wrestling is ballet with violence.

But wrestling used to be the same as boxing or mixed martial arts. It used to be about conflict, having a fight, who's going to win.

When I was a wrestler, my job was mostly looking mean and throwing punches and kicks.

Wrestling is a worldwide sport. It's totally international.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.

We take pride in making our Knockouts Division about wrestling, not about looking pretty.

MMA was like wrestling; I love competition.

When you get down to it, wrestling is wrestling, and when you get in the ring and start performing, it's up to you and the guy you're in there with to do it and perform it.

In wrestling, sports entertainment, I get to fight in front of people; I get to wrestle in front of people; I get to entertain people sometimes four times a week - all around the country, all around the world.

I love every minute of being inside that squared circle.

Wrestling is quite cyclical in its nature.

In combat sports, personalities are what draw.

I'm a two-time world champion in jiu-jitsu. I can try to submit you.

But I got into MMA for the sport. I love fighting.

I love what I do. I love the competition of fighting. And I love to wrestle.

Mixed martial arts is great, and it's here to stay.

Wrestling is an art. Every culture has an art, like music and dancing and fighting. So that's my base. If I think about it like art, I can connect with everybody.

When I see wrestlers fight, they train a lot of boxing because they don't want to end up on bottom.

You can call WWE whatever you want, but at the end of the day, it's a fight and fighting is my specialty.

It's a fast-paced somewhat violent sport, but it's very much entertaining. And the greatest thing about mixed martial arts is that it transcends a lot of demographics.

There were a lot of tough guys who were tremendous wrestlers.

Spike is an entertainment company. So why not have entertaining fights when you can do them?

I've never wanted to be a cage fighter myself, but I definitely do enjoy the entertainment of it.

UFC is not a competitor to the WWE because we are entertainment and UFC is competitive sport. It's very different.

Wrestling is one of the last truly rebellious American things left.