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Professional wrestling mixes athletics with theatrics, which is why World Wrestling Entertainment calls its product "sports entertainment."WWE.com: Business Overview
As part of the entertainment, wrestlers often speak during interviews in order to advance storylines or develop their characters.
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- Wrestlers often talk in interviews on WWE programming
- Interviews usually start or propel feuds between wrestlers
- Some wrestlers have catchphrases for the crowd to get behind
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Popular wrestlers require "mic skills," meaning the ability to speak well on the microphone. It is through their speeches and interviews that they can get the fans emotionally involved in upcoming matches.Some wrestlers, like John Cena or Stone Cold Steve Austin, use signature catchphrases for fans to chant with them. On the other hand, "heel" wrestlers (bad guys) often criticize the crowd to elicit a negative response.
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Bobby Heenan Quotes
- Wikiquote: Bobby Heenan
- "A friend in need is a pest."
- "You don't have to yell at me! I'm not blind!"
- "The two things that scare me most about wrestling fans is that they're allowed to vote and allowed to reproduce."
- "You know they say money can't buy happiness. Give me 50 bucks and watch me smile."
- "I heard a rumor that your mom and dad ran away from home." (to Roddy Piper)
- "Dusty Rhodes and Sapphire. They're a lovely twosome, or threesome, or foursome, or twenty-fifthsome."
- "They're living proof that the 3 stooges had children." (re: The Bushwhackers)
- "I know all about cheating. I've had six very successful marriages."
- "I asked Stu Hart earlier. I said, 'Stu, you gotta be proud of your boys.' He said, 'I have boys?'"
- "The money's the same, whether you earn it or scam it."
- "I'm a legend in this sport. If you don't believe me, ask me."
- "Hawaii's the 50th state? I thought it was a suburb of Guam."
- "I'd love to be popular in Barcelona. That sounds like a fun job."
- "There's nothing better than a good, blind referee."
- "The bad thing about the Bushwhackers is that win, lose, or draw, you gotta have everything you got on fumigated."
- "He's not pointing to anybody, he's showing off how high he can count!" (re: Hulk Hogan)
- Wrestling Information Archive: Top Wrestling Quotes
- "I once asked him what came at the end of the sentence... and he said 'parole.'" (re: a jobber)
- "This guy makes coffee nervous." (re: Ultimate Warrior)
- "I see the rodeo's in town again." (re: Rosatti Sisters)
- "The only thing they recognize is a buffet." (re: Rosatti Sisters)
- "Hey, he speaks pretty well for a guy who just ate 2 pounds of crackers." (re: Lou Ferrigno)
- "Do you know Koko B. Ware's mom's first name? Tupper."
- "Tito Santana is like a cue ball. The more you strike him, the more English you get out of him."
- "He's the only man I know of who can hide his own easter eggs." (re: Kerry Von Erich)
Roddy Piper Quotes
- Wikiquote: Roddy Piper
- "Do you know you couldn't get a date with a $20 bill taped to your forehead?"
- "I don't need to know how tough I am to know how tough I am."
- "When I'm good, I'm good. When I'm bad, I'm better!"
- "I'm the reason Hulk Hogan lost his hair."
- "I walk so fast, I talk so fast, I could turn the light off and be in bed before the room's dark."
- "I was pissin' Vince McMahon off when the red on the back of your neck was diaper rash!" (to Steve Austin)
- "Sooner or later, everybody pays the Piper!"
- "I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass, and I'm all outta bubblegum."
- Wrestling Information Archive: Top Wrestling Quotes
- "I'm so quick, I could spit in the wind, duck, and let it hit the old lady behind me!"
- "Real men wear kilts."
- "Oh, here he comes now, the Mae West of pro wrestling." (re: Ric Flair)
- "'Rowdy' Roddy cut his locks, but don't worry, woman, he's still a fox."
- "Ric Flair, you once called me a woman. Well, what I want to know is, how does it feel to get beat by a woman?"
- "Just when you think you know the answers, I change the questions."
The Rock Quotes
- Wikiquote: The Rock
- "If ya' smell what The Rock is cookin'!"
- "Know your role, and shut your mouth!"
- "Shine it up real nice, turn it sideways, and stick it straight up your candy-ass!"
- "The Rock is, without a shadow of a doubt, the most electrifying man in sports entertainment today."
- "It doesn't matter what your name is!"
- "Look at The Rock's competition! Look at him! It looks like a big monkey came down here, took a crap, and out came Mankind!"
- "The Rock says this: if the Rock hits you, he'll kill you. If he misses, the wind behind the punch will give you pneumonia and you'll die anyway, so the choice is yours, jabroni!"
- "And then, Big Show, you do something that is, without the shadow of a doubt, the most impressive thing the Rock's seen, and that's this-- (lifts hand in the air, Big Show-style and moans) huuuaaaagh!"
- "The Rock has just one thing to say to you: poontang your ass on out of here!"
- "Happy Birthday to Steph. You're a ho with big breasts. So take the night off from hooking, if you smell what The Rock is cooking!"
- "On the night Test faced the Great One, this is what he'll see... twelve sharpshooters stinging, eleven eyebrows raising, ten spines a'bustin, nine noggins knocking, eight kicks a'kicking, seven punches punching, six suplexes smashing, five seconds of the people chanting The Rock's name... four Rock Bottoms, three People's Elbows, on your two buckteeth, and an ass-kicking all over New Orleans!"
- "The Rock thinks you can suck on a monkey's nipple."
- "Just bring it!"
- "The Rock is going to lay the smacketh down on your candy ass!"
- Nicole's Memorable WWE Quotes: Quotes By Year
- "Kevin Kelly, let The Rock answer your question with a question of his own: Are you mentally, as well as physically prepared to tickle the anus of a monkey?"
- "Why do you ask The Rock stupid questions? Why are you an ugly hermaphrodite? Nobody knows, Kevin Kelly."
- "Well, The Rock says this, you should be concerned with fixing yourself a nice, tall glass of shut-up juice!"
- "With a haircut like that and a face like that, it looks like Billy Ray Cyrus went and had sex with a retarded hyena." (re: Eddie Guerrero)
- "The jabroni beating, pie eating, trail-blazin', eyebrow raisin', all around, smack it down People's Champ, The Rock!"
- "The only thing strong about the French Army is their damn body odor."
- "Well, I might take a plane, I might take a train. How do you people live here? You must be insane. I'm leaving Sacramento. Sacramento, I won't stay. But I'll be sure to come back when the Lakers beat the Kings in May."
- "And Lilian wasn't always a Raw Diva. Lilian used to have a job. She used to work at the sperm bank. She got fired for drinking on the job." (re: Lillian Garcia)
- Wikiquote: Bobby Heenan
