Definition of Wrestling

Wrestling

Act of one who wrestles; specif., the sport consisting of the hand-to-hand combat between two unarmed contestants who seek to throw each other.

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Wrestling Quotations

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
Marcus Aurelius

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.
William James

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.
Ross Perot

I have never seen a wrestling match or a prize fight, and I don't want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports, I drop him.
Hedy Lamarr

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.
Dwayne Johnson

Hopefully I can become the Babe Ruth of the World Wrestling Federation and be the champion at the same time.
Hulk Hogan

Wrestling is ballet with violence.
Jesse Ventura

I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.
John Irving

I don't think that McMahon thinks very much about the fact that J.R and I have been successful. I don't think that McMahon thinks the wrestling announcers really have that much to contribute the show.
Jerry Lawler

OSHA had come in and looked at the channel 5 studios and it sort of had something to do with wrestling, but they found that there were some safety concerns that had to be addressed.
Jerry Lawler

Judging from what looks like the popularity of this classic wrestling show is that the people like what they have grown to know and love here in Memphis.
Jerry Lawler

When I'm in bed with a woman, my favorite move is a wrestling hold called the lip lock.
Jerry Lawler

As they say, anything can happen in the World Wrestling Federation.
Jerry Lawler

Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.
Madeleine L'Engle

I like a women who's got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that's fine.
James Hetfield

Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
Olin Miller

It was only supposed to be on WCW compilation; on that wrestling compilation. And for that I thought it was good. And then we threw it on our record as well.
Kerry King

I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets.
Sting

It's good to go out and entertain these people, and you've got them on the edge of their seat, they're standing up. Then you know that you've done your job, you've entertained them. My way of entertaining them is going out and wrestling. Everyone's got their different ways.
Owen Hart

As far as wrestling goes, as long as my body is able to withstand the physical beating, I will keep wrestling.
Trish Stratus

I find too often in the wrestling business, you just wrestle, get to the hotel, make your money. Sometimes I have to stop and remind myself to enjoy my life and not just rush through.
Owen Hart

I'm good friends with The Rock, and I talk to him all the time. And he says that, even though his movie career has taken off, he misses the instant gratification of wrestling, and the live crowds, and I could see being that way myself.
Trish Stratus

I certainly would have regretted not getting into wrestling. It's been very lucrative for me and I've been fortunate to get into it and make money and not do anything stupid where I invested in something that collapsed.
Owen Hart

Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day.
Roland Joffe

It's kind of beating a dead horse if you're talking about going out and saying wrestling's fake, or this or that. People don't want to hear that. They want to hear, they wanted to find an inside story.
Owen Hart

I used to be fond of Indian arm wrestling.
Leslie Fiedler

Not only was it that I surprised people by beating Bret Hart, but it was a great match. They still rate it as one of the best wrestling matches of all time.
Owen Hart

I owe a lot to my dad, just for having provided the wrestling business for us to get into.
Owen Hart

There's so many documentaries out there right now and everything's exposing wrestling.
Owen Hart

Well, actually, the Second City thing came about because I was taking a few improv classes there. I thought that the improv classes would help with my wrestling career, which it has.
Trish Stratus

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Wrestling Translations

wrestling in French is lutte
wrestling in German is Ringkampf
wrestling in Spanish is lucha libre
wrestling in Swedish is brottning

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