Jim Cornette

“I spent the majority of my adult life in a business where the object is to make people believe that you believe what you say. I was good at that, right?”

“There's no casual wrestling fan anymore.”

“I'm kind of off modern wrestling. I want somebody to step up and impress me.”

“The fans in Lake Charles, La., were crazy. The Freebirds would get their tires cut, so they started driving to the police station and having the police bring them to the show. The fans then cut the tires on the police car that brought The Freebirds.”

“I've seen inside fans' houses, and they would have pictures of Jesus on the wall, and next to it would be a picture of The Rock 'n' Roll Express. That's no lie.”

“I think tag team wrestling is every bit as exciting, if not more exciting than singles competition.”

“The thing is, wrestling is the oldest form of combat known. The cavemen wrestled. And everyone in the American public can understand that.”

“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 had been a wrestling fan since I was nine years old.”

“They way new stars were made in WCW and WWE was by beating the established guys and getting in that mix. When you only have one established guy, that's gonna be hard.”

“When you are as big and strong as Strowman, WWE notices you and basically pays you to go to school. He was paid to train, has a guaranteed contract, and gets paid whether he wrestles or not. He couldn't survive in the actual wrestling business. He never had to pay his dues.”

“Amateur wrestling was never considered a big box office draw because they're really competing but they're not getting a chance to call each other 16 kinds of names before the fight to get you interested.”

“I've been a fan of one particular guy since I first saw him in 'Ring of Honor' eight years ago. He was Tyler Black then, but he's Seth Rollins now. And I think he's just the whole package.”

“When you think that in the '50s there was wrestling and boxing - that was it. There wasn't mixed martial arts at all; there wasn't even karate in the United States.”

“I can stay under 215 pounds, which is pretty good for me, if I stay off the road. If I go on the road, I invariably eat garbage and start to lose my girlish figure.”

“Without talent, I don't care how funny the writers are or how many comedy lines they come up, without wrestlers you can't have a wrestling program.”

“As far as the NWA tag-team wrestling of the '80s - and I know you're talking some heavy hitters there - the first thing people will always say is The Midnight and Rock 'N' Roll Express. We invented things as we went along that people had never seen. It was always different. And it was always good.”

“I would love to see TNA get a developmental program.”

“Dana Brooke's entire face looks like it was remodeled after somebody set fire to it and put it out with an axe.”

“Wrestling has gotten so show-biz, it's to the point where people scoff at it.”