Dave Bautista Quotes

It's not about how much money I'm getting paid. It's just a love of one-on-one combat. I feel I'm at home. I love the ring entrances, the talking. I'm the master of it all.

I love every minute of being inside that squared circle.

They say it's all fake, but there's nothing fake when a guy picks you up and slams you down or throws you out of the ring onto a concrete floor. They say, 'Yeah, but you know how to land.' Well, you try landing on a concrete floor.

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

Every night you go out there, you get hurt. It's really the easiest way to say it. People can describe wrestling however they want to, but your body is flesh and bone, and it's not meant to be slammed on wood and steel.

There's a misconception about wrestling, that it's really fake, but it's real, and you can really get hurt, even though a lot of it is performative.

Johnny Valentine's the one who said, 'I can't make them believe that wrestling is real, but I can make them believe I'm real.' It would take him forever because he was just stinkingly boring for 30 minutes of the 40-minute match, but he would let people hit him as hard as they could, and he would hit people as hard as he could.

I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game.

My home is at the WWE. I truly do love performing. The atmosphere here isn't like anything else. It's truly where I belong.

Football is so barbaric. Sometimes I wonder what I was thinking by playing it. I feel almost like I escaped from boot camp.

Anytime somebody climbs up those steps into the ring, they have a heart.

I fight for people's entertainment, but at the same time that entertainment comes at a cost.

I get paid to get hit in the head.

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

Of course every fighter, whether they admit it or not, they have aches and pains and they go into fights hurt.

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.

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

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

I spent so many years in MMA waving the banner for pro wrestling, telling fighters they had to be more entertaining.

When you go into a 'WWE' ring, you know you're going to compete. You know that things are going to hurt. It is a dangerous, dangerous place. No matter what people think or say, it's a very, very dangerous thing.

I would be a fool to tell you that there was no fixing. You ask if wrestling is for real? Well, I think my own body answers that question.

If you are watching television and two guys come out and you are already able to tell what the finish of that match is based on entrances alone, that's a problem.

I don't think there is anybody, including Jeff Hardy, who puts their body through as much abuse as A. J. Styles.

Wrestling moves are made for arenas, not the screen.

When something special happens in wrestling, it's that much more special to me and for me to go, 'That was awesome,' because I'm as bitter as there is, so if you can get me to go, 'Woah, that was cool,' a couple of times, it's a special show.