Match Outcomes Quotes

The most important thing in the professional wrestling industry in this day and age of technology and the Internet and social media is to be able to make wrestling unpredictable.

No matter who I am wrestling, as long as Bobby Heenan is my manager, I'll be happy.

If you look at wrestling when I started to get my big break back in 1992, I changed wrestling from the cartoons of Hulk Hogan and Iron Sheik and the matches with the leg drop and the hand behind the ear and the playing to the crowd. They were just cartoon characters if you ask me.

When I hired the first group of cruiserweights - which consisted of Dean Malenko, Chris Jericho, and Eddie Guerrero - I sat them down in my office, and I was very clear to them. I said to them, almost verbatim, 'You need to be my human car crashes at 9 P.M.'

Anything can happen in pro wrestling.

I know the way WWE works. Things change last minute.

As everyone knows, things change in pro wrestling all the time. To try and expect what's going to happen in the future is just foolish to me.

There is always pressure on managers at whatever stage of a season because we want to be winning games and we want to be winning football matches.

When I am on 'Raw' and 'Smackdown,' I try to make the best of it.

I had so many wonderful guys that I worked with and great matches - that's what was most important to me - and the fans.

Typically, in a live-action format, when you watch a wrestling show, you've got wrestlers in a ring in front of a thousand, five thousand, ten thousand people, and they're playing to large crowd, so you never really get that intimate, close and personal dialogue with them.

I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and why they booked matches a certain way and what they were thinking and whether they were satisfied with the draw. And I got a lot of insight in the business.

I definitely miss parts of wrestling like having matches, especially when I watch the product.

There are many ways to do something right within the world of pro wrestling.

In TNA, if I wrestle, I'm able to help one person. As a road agent and head of talent relations, I can help an entire crew.

If you look at football over the last 50 years there has been a gradual decrease in goals, you don't see too many 10-nils these days, but two, three or four goals per game is a good spectacle.

In Total Nonstop Action, individual wrestlers have a lot more freedom to artistically express themselves versus WWE.

That's what we do in WWE: we tell stories.

If you look at the history of wrestling, what makes heels great is their ridiculous statements.

I've never been a politics guy in wrestling; I'm just someone who came out and worked.

If you want to win the Premier League, you have to win away as well.

I like to lean on making wrestling the most believable, realistic form of entertainment as possible for the most part.

Ring of Honor always has a great general idea of what they think I need, and generally, we agree pretty quickly on what I want to do.

One match that really sticks out for me, there's a bunch of matches with all the guys that I worked with. For me, when I got in the ring, I approached it as being real because I was a real character. I didn't have a gimmick name; I didn't have a gimmick finish.

Sometimes - and I don't mean it disrespectfully - the easiest people to work in the wrestling business are the people in the locker room.