Chris Jericho 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.

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

With 'Strictly,' I am mentally and physically knackered: everything aches. I knew it would be hard, but I never thought it would be this tough.

I felt, when I was 20, I wasn't quite ready for the physical contact of 82 games. Mentally, it was tough. I forgot what city we were in most of the time. I can't even imagine going through it at 18 or 19.

A lot of people will comment, 'All the high flying will catch up to you.' I think any form of wrestling will catch up to you.

McMahon has made a lot of guys very rich, but he may also be taking years off their lives.

When I was at IMPACT and X Division Champion, my neck wasn't able to handle the workload and after losing the belt to Brian Cage in a match I just realized my neck just can't handle this anymore.

In boxing, if a fighter doesn't leave the sport on time, something bad is likely to happen.

Wrestling isn't easy. It's like a car crash. I wish they would give guys a few weeks off. I think guys need to take mandatory time off. I know it's tough when they need to promote the key names, but they need to keep guys healthy.

It's very difficult to grapple with the idea of not being able to wrestle any more, but you also have to come to the realization that this is a very physical business, and your body will only last you so long.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

Eight to ten years in a patrol car? I didn't have that in me.

To say I am not mentally tired in ways and exhausted in ways would be a lie.

I don't want there to be a time where I'm 'too old' to box on, or where an injury retires me in or out of the ring.

If I had only Inoki to meet, I could wrestle until I was 60 years old.

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

The 'Demon King' takes out a lot out of Finn Balor the man emotionally and mentally.

Anytime you're out there in between those ropes, you always have to worry about fatigue. If you think about it, people get tired just doing cardio. You get tired doing cardio just by yourself. Now imagine running around, picking somebody up, picking you up, trying to pin you, trying to hold you down. It gets very tiring.

The 200 is tragic! It's my favorite race, but it takes so much out of the body - and it's too much time to think.

I don't want to wrestle past 35. There's just too much physical strain with 250-pound men slamming into each other.

You cannot always play at 100 per cent, especially at the end of the season when you don't have much energy left.

For a lot of players, it's not that they don't want to play anymore or that they get tired of it or bored of it. It's that their bodies give out.

Whether it's one play in the NFL or 1,000 plays in the NFL, your pads will come off eventually.

When I got hurt - I broke my back in a match in London, England - I had to retire and became just a commentator.