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“Buddy Rogers and I never liked each other to be honest, however I take nothing away from him.”
“Let's face it, I'm a has-been.”
“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.”
“If I were to tell you that my day was all pure wrestling, I wouldn't be honest with you. Because there were crooked promoters. There were a lot of guys that knew that they couldn't even compete with other guys. But to suggest that every match was like that wouldn't be true.”
“You look at success and thank God and the fans for the success. It's why I always feel indebted to the fans.”
“I'm an old-school guy.”
“When it came to the Hall of Fame, I've been very critical of the direction they've taken and I'd feel like a hypocrite if I just accepted this Hall of Fame while I'm so against what they're doing.”
“The only thing I like about doing autograph shows is that the people who used to be fans are so wonderful. They'll come over and give such wonderful compliments.”
“Anybody who sees me in person will see the worst cauliflower ears I think you have ever seen.”
“I'm totally dedicated to training no one trains harder than I do.”
“I busted my nose 11 times. My fingers are all busted. My ribs. Both my arms. I can't straighten them out.”
“After I retired, I spent a quarter of a century in the business, and when I retired and a new regime took over, Vince McMahon Jr. and that, and in the beginning I went back to help out. I color commentated with him, but then I started to see things that were disturbing to me.”
“I'm not bragging, but my reputation among my peers was Bruno was a horse I never got tired.”
“The greatest gift a man can have is to have an operatic voice.”
“In Argentina, in Brazil, I remember going to Australia, all the trips I did in Japan, you know how they'd advertise me? 'From Madison Square Garden, Bruno Sammartino.'”
“Wrestling is how I made my living and supported my family, but it's over. I don't want anything to do with it anymore.”
“They call me 'The Maniac' as far as training goes. I'm a fanatic. I run 10 miles every day and I train three hours every other day with barbells. Nobody trains that hard. And that's not bragging.”
“Anytime that people feel that you accomplished enough to enter into a Hall of Fame, of course this is a tremendous, tremendous thrill for me.”
“I think guys like Cena work very hard.”
“The sacrifice musicians make, the results they achieve are fantastic. These are the big people as far as I am concerned. So if they are temperamental, I don't hold it against them after all they had to go through to get to the top.”