Ricky Steamboat Quotes

I would never intend to hurt anyone I'm in the ring with. It's entertainment, it's a performance, it's a sport.

Even though MMA and pro wrestling are very different, at the end of the day, it's all about entertaining. They are amazing athletes who go out there and give 100 percent.

I love every minute of being inside that squared circle.

The whole wrestling art, it's a whole form, is performance, and that's what makes it so exciting to do.

To me, nothing is more fun than being in that ring. That ring is just my heart; it's my passion.

I've never really considered myself a wrestler. I always considered myself an entertainer, but I always wanted to be better than the guy next to me.

I loved DDT for the freedom; I was able to tell the wackiest and wildest of stories but also test myself as an athlete.

For me personally, I'm going to continue to do what I do in the ring.

Every comic is really a frustrated rock star.

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

I do feel it's important to entertain people. I try to.

The cool thing about pro wrestling is we do a lot more acting as far as characters in general than MMA. I know a lot of people like the MMA fighters because they like the rugged look.

It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me.

When you're playing, you're playing something for the world to hear.

Being a pro wrestler can be kind of difficult sometimes. We have a perception about what we do - and I totally understand the perception, because we're a weekly episodic program, and we're having fun all the time, so people think that's kind of the most talented thing I could do.

Real entertainers love to entertain.

I would miss the action if I ever stepped away from wrestling.

I don't like to use the word 'fake.' A lot of our stuff is choreographed. But there is a lot of physicality that happens during the course of a match and our careers. There's a lot of physicality that happens to us and you can't deny that.

I've always liked being on the performance end of it. I've come up with different ideas, but as far as being a creative writer, I'm not sure about that. I've always liked the performance end of it and wrestling, getting in the ring in front of a live crowd.

Sometimes you experience magic out in the ring.

I do all that I can to surprise people and make things unpredictable because that is what makes wrestling fun.

Being a WWE superstar is about giving, and I think there's a few guys who get that.

To portray something that you're really not, it's like a little escape, and I love to act and to be dramatic. I feel like the wrestling ring in WWE is the perfect platform to do that. It's totally acceptable.

I believe in entertaining the audiences with whatever I do.

The cool thing about WWE is it's like entertainment boot camp. You're performing in front of a live audience, a different audience every night. You're doing promos in the ring. You're doing talking segments in the back. You're wrestling. You're performing. It's everything all rolled into one.