The Great Khali Quotes

You can't do WWE forever; like, your body will just not hold up.

I don't think I could do the four or five days a week in the WWE. I feel bad for them.

I get paid to get hit in the head.

This can be the best job in the world, being a WWE superstar, but it can be the hardest job in the world at the same time.

For anyone to say that WWE is fake or anything like that, no sir! It's very physical, and the injuries are real; the blood is real.

I mean, I don't really remember playing a full season ever being 100 percent.

Fake is not a word I like to use because there's nothing fake about what I do. It's a show, it's a predetermined outcome; we're putting on a television drama, action, comedy, whatever you want to call it - but it's not fake. Fake would be if I was just about to take a body slam, and my stuntman did it. Fake would be if I was going to take a chair shot to the head, and the chair was made of rubber. I'll tell the world that it's a show, but I hate the word fake. It's such an unfair term to us.

Ask any athlete: We all hurt at times. I'm asking my body to go through seven different tasks. To ask it not to ache would be too much.

Believe it or not, I kind of went into professional wrestling so I could get an avenue into acting.

I'm relatively physically adept and I like throwing myself around. Once, twice, but then you get to nine, ten, eleven and to try and make it look realistic all the time, that's not very pleasant.

People don't realize that doing a horror movie is hard work. You're out there all day screaming your lungs out, breathing in toxic make-up fumes, rolling around in the dirt, getting your eyebrows burned off - it's not like doing a sitcom.

As far as wrestling goes, as long as my body is able to withstand the physical beating, I will keep wrestling.

Every time I do a movie where it gets physical, I say never again.

A dancer's life is hard - it is so physically demanding, and at any moment, you could have an injury that could end your career.

A fight scene with a crazy can be quite physical. You don't feel it while you're acting, but each day you go, that hurts.

Your body's really only meant to compete at the highest levels of combat sports for a few years.

You do take a beating in professional wrestling. But I love it.

I try to stay in the best physical shape that I can because I do most of my own stunts. It looks amazing if you can do it, but I don't advocate it because you always get injured.

There's no doubt about it; playing football and how tough it is on the body afterwards.

When you lose your passion to be a WWE Superstar, there's no point in going back. It's a lot of work and sacrifice.

Rugby takes its toll.

I loved my time in Deep South Wrestling. We trained so hard and I got a crash course into the world of sports entertainment and pro wrestling.

Pro wrestling is entertainment, but people get hurt all of the time.

These big jumps take a big toll on the body, especially a young body. So, it's kind of risk or reward, I guess.

Pro wrestling is so physical and taxing and just hurts your body; it's very aggressive entertainment.