Kansas Wrestling Forums General Discussion High School wrestling quotes

hey i need some help with an article im writing for school, so I need som good wresling quotes. Any help would be greatly appreciated

Spectator123,

Here's a couple web sites (or is it sights) that I use in my classes. You can also do a basic Google search under famous quotes to find a whole lot more...if you search for wrestling quotes, all you'll get is ones from WWF/WWE.

Good luck on your article. Make sure you use spell check, so do don't get blasted for mistakes.
;-)

http://www.quotationspage.com/
http://www.famous-quotations.com/
http://www.gunnar.cc/quotes.html

"It's not just six minutes, it's what you do in those six minutes."-----Vision Quest, the movie and the book

"once you've wrestled everything else in life is easy"-Gable

Pain is temporary, pride is forever.

Champions train, losers complain.

Be the first one they look for and the last one they want to meet.

The more u sweat in times of peace the less u bleed in times of war.

The sight I adore on a basketball floor is wrestling mats from door to door.

These are a few good ones

those who sweat together, stick together

"A good thing about wrestling is learning to fight off your back, because life puts you on your back everyday."
-Dan Gable

"When I would train I would visualize my next opponent. I would imagine him working hard and I would push myself. When I finally visualized him quiting and hitting the shower . .I would push myself harder."
-Dan Gable

Its a good thing theese posts and replies aren't buisness communications because they would surely be in our good freinds waste basket.

"Hold my medals while I kiss your girlfriend"

"Wrestlers have 'em, the rest just play with 'em"

It's not whether you lost or won, it's how you wrestled that counts.

The only person you'll wrestle for, is the guy in the mirror.

Any part of Teddy Roosevelt - To the Man in the Arena - 1910
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly...who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

When you get what you want in your struggle for self
And the world makes you king for a day,
Just go to a mirror and look at yourself,
And see what that man has to say.
For it isn't your father or mother or wife,
Who judgment upon you must pass;
The fellow whose verdict counts most in your life
Is the one starring back from the glass.
He's the fellow to please, never mind all the rest.
For he's with you clear up to the end,
And you've passed the most dangerous, difficult test
If the man in the glass is your friend.
You may fool the whole world down the pathway of years.
And get pats on the back as you pass,
But your final reward will be the heartaches and tears
If you've cheated the man in the glass.

Dale Wimbrow 1895-1954

----------not so serious----------
The best thing I adore, is the sight of mats from door-to-door. (I've seen various adaptations of this over the years...)

Wrestling: What MEN do while Boys play basketball!!

BHS "We Deliver" (as opposed to UPS)

wow, that last one was lame-o to the max

harhar I love it

These are all from the great Vince Lombardi:

"There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything. I do, and I demand that my players do."

"If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you'll be fired with enthusiasm."

"Mental toughness is essential to success."

"You never win a game unless you beat the guy in front of you. The score on the board doesn't mean a thing. That's for the fans. You've got to win the war with the man in front of you. You've got to get your man."

"Success is like anything worthwhile. It has a price. You have to pay the price to win and you have to pay the price to get to the point where success is possible. Most important, you must pay the price to stay there."

"The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender."
"If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.

"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up."

"The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince."

"Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It's a state of mind-you could call it character in action."

"Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit."

"Winning is not everything--but making effort to win is."

"It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner."

"I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle-victorious."

And my personal favorite:

"Winning is not a sometime thing: it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do the right thing once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing."

"What the hell are you doing in the bathroom day and night? Why don't you get out of there and give someone else a chance?".......... Igor's dad

courage is just fear that took one too many hits off of the pipe

some want it to happen, others wish it happen, we tear down the walls of resistance and make it happen!

This is the second most exciting indoor sport, and the other one shouldn't have spectators.


It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired-you quit when the gorilla is tired.
Robert Strauss

I prefer quotes that also fit life....


"Remember, win or lose, you will be in an elite class just by choosing to be passionate about something." Mark Schwab, Buena Vista Unv head coach.

The one on the bottom of my post is good too.

How about this quote from Winston Churchhill (sp?),

"The best things in life are free. That is, except for blumpkins, which can be quite pricey."