A biography for Jim Cornettehasn’t been written yet.
“I've always been a fan of Bobby Roode's.”
“I loved Houston. Those fans would go ballistic.”
“I came along the decade after the generation where a lot of heels were still getting stabbed, so I was always looking for it. I had a bullet-proof vest in a couple places.”
“There's probably as many rules of thumb to wrestling as anything in the world, and then there's just as many exceptions to every one of those rules because somebody doesn't fit that thumb.”
“Andy Kaufman and Jerry Lawler's match was the one thing people believed most about wrestling in the last 35 years.”
“Between the '80s with The Midnight Express and the '90s with The Heavenly Bodies, and then in the 2000s on the reunions with The Midnights, I think only Bobo Brazil and The Sheik had a longer-running rivalry.”
“Trevor Murdoch is mad, bad and dangerous. He's the only man I know that can strap a bucket of fried chicken on his back and ride a motor scooter across Ethiopia.”
“Old school fans are going to be shocked at just how much of the pro wrestling they grew up watching was, indeed, contrived, manipulated or, as it's called in the business, 'worked.'”
“A lot of people say now, 'John Cena doesn't work.' Well, John Cena does the things that people go to see John Cena do, and he doesn't take a lot of risks.”
“Lio Rush, this little guy is a perfect heel manager, updated for modern times.”
“I've had experience in management and TV and hope to be able to lend some of that to TNA and maybe persuade some wrestlers to come in this direction because of the influence I've had on their careers in the past.”
“There's a lot of crossover between comic fans, wrestling fans and pop culture fans.”
“Tracy Smothers was the epitome of the perfect Smoky Mountain hero. He was legitimate.”
“I know a lot of people may not really believe this, but I'm kind of outspoken and I like to tell people what I think.”
“I loved Jimmy Snuka as a fan.”
“Eddie Marlin was a big deal for a long time to a lot of people.”
“People that lie to me generally get banished or vanished to the planet Pluto in my mind.”
“You can make kids and fans happy without calling them on the court in the last three minutes of the NBA Finals.”
“I'm the only person in wrestling that realizes I'm too old to do this anymore, and that's why I'm not a performer and I'm not going to be on 'ROH.'”
“I went on a diet and went from 248 pounds to 211.”