Wrestling Promoter Quotes

Eric Bischoff is a total, complete idiot, maybe the single stupidest idiot that ever got into wrestling.

I still recall the first time I laid eyes on Ric. Dusty Rhodes and Dick Murdoch were wrestling, at the time, in Minnesota, and they took a liking to this kid who'd been hanging around the matches. That kid was Ric Flair, and they brought him to my ranch in Amarillo, Texas.

Personally, I am very glad that Jeremy Borash is here in WWE. He's got a great mind - a very creative person, a good friend of mine - and he just deserves to work here.

I haven't wanted to portray a manager since Paul E. Dangerously was with the Samoan Swat Team in 1989. I've always wanted to do some different presentation in that role. I don't consider myself a manager - I'm an advocate, and I truly believe that that is the description for the role that I play.

At first everyone thought that wanting to become a pro wrestler was just a phase.

I'm the man that made wrestling famous.

Vince McMahon - he's third generation, and his enormous empire, he ran it much like the territories. The buck stopped with him; he made the decisions. That's how a company should be run. Feast or famine, right or wrong, the WWE is driven off his decision making and always has been.

There is always the underground rapper people enjoy, and you want to see him come up. That's kind of how it is in wrestling.

In all my years I don't think I've ever said anything nice about Dusty Rhodes to any member of the media.

Jake 'The Snake' Roberts, man - brilliant mind.

As long as I can get Bobby Heenan in my corner, then I'm a happy man because, to me, Bobby Heenan is one of the most underrated performers of all time. He's in my top five of all time performers because I don't think people realize just how good he was.

Mr. McMahon the character is a very effective heel.

If you're an outsider, you don't know how to get signed by the WWE. It's not like football where you can sign up and segue your way in. You've got to know somebody.

I can make a valid argument that Bobby Heenan is pro wrestling's great performer.

Vince Russo knows about as much about wrestling as Eric Bischoff does.

My grandmother got into this business in the 1940s, so it's all I've ever known. So I've seen a lot of wrestling.

I wasn't trying to be the next Hulk Hogan. I was trying to be the next Vince McMahon.

Jim Ross has such compassion for the fans. That's because this is natural for him, it's a love, just like the love Gordon Solie had for the business.

Kurt Angle was amazing. He was the person who got me into pro wrestling. He found me when I was at the Olympic training center just wrestling, amateur wrestling.

Diamond Dallas Page didn't have that larger-than-life persona, but he had a different connection with the audience.

To have a Japanese wrestler standing as the face of professional wrestling, there's only one person for that spot, and it's me.

When I joined the WWE, Dave 'Fit' Finley was our first agent that we worked with all the time and he brought in another form of aggression in me.

Vince McMahon was a great negotiator.

When Vince McMahon said I was going to be a future world champion, he didn't say when.

I owe a lot to Roddy Piper.