My true love is with amateur wrestlin;, that’s where I was born. I’ve always wanted to wrestle.

Pro wrestling was there, and I was good at it, thank God. I started getting a lot of offers, but unfortunately, at WWE I was under a tight leash. I think it had a lot...

I really have been trying to get in movies with smaller parts, just to get myself in there and get more practice, and not have to take the big lead. In ‘Dylan Dog’ I was...

You do not boo an Olympic Gold Medalist. I’m the best in the world. I came here for you. You don’t boo me.

The hard part for me was being an Olympic gold medalist and having that persona; you don’t see too many Olympic gold medalists go into acting. It’s actually even more difficult. You’re not taken very...

You’ve got to stay in pretty good shape to be a pro wrestler, and all the TNA wrestlers get a bit nervous when I wrestle them because they’re afraid I’ll tire them out, but the...

I teased Randy Orton because he started using my finish, the Angle Slam. I said, ‘Hey, I don’t mind you using it, but at least give it a name.’ When he hits it, the announcers...

There are so many things that have evolved since I wrestled. They don’t have periods anymore. They have rounds… it confuses the younger demographic.

In Canada, you can’t even have a barbecue in your backyard without being attacked by a moose or even a grizzly bear. Then again, the grizzlies don’t beat anyone here in Vancouver; oh, it’s true,...

When Jack Swagger copies my Ankle Lock and Randy Orton does my Angle Slam, it’s disrespectful. I didn’t come up with the Ankle Lock; Ken Shamrock came up with the Ankle Lock, but I waited...

Pro wrestling is not fake; it’s sports entertainment. We go out there and we perform, and a lot of what we do out there is real, but we’re not going to insult anyone’s intelligence –...

Amateur wrestling, you can go by instinct. Pro wrestling, you have to memorize, and you have to go by what moves you said you were going to do. Sometimes you have to feel the crowd...

The cool thing about pro wrestling is we do a lot more acting as far as characters in general than MMA. I know a lot of people like the MMA fighters because they like the...

You go from Olympic wrestling into pro wrestling, and it’s a very difficult transition, but if you make it, you can earn a great living while at the same time giving amateur wrestling a lot...

The Olympics is not really about the sport, it’s about the story behind the person. You keep the sport relatively simple to understand – let the fans understand that a takedown is 1 point, a...

I love Vince McMahon. He came up with the Kurt Angle character. He ran with it, and then I was able to run with it. I thank him for the opportunity he gave me. Vince...

Join me in Olympic Heros for Abstinence. The best sex is no sex.

There are many young Americans that are very distant from our political process.

I’m not going to be a guy that retires and keeps coming back. When I’m gone, I’m gone. Same thing as amateur wrestling; when I won the world championships in Olympics, I left and I...

I don’t like to have gimmicks. I don’t like to have gadgets and stuff. I just like to go out there and entertain the fans by wrestling.

Wrestling is such a competitive sport worldwide.

I love doing funny promos like the ones I did wrestling Rey Mysterio.

Believe it or not, I kind of went into professional wrestling so I could get an avenue into acting.

I’ve been chastised for going into mixed martial arts and backing out. But the reason I backed out was the terms – they wanted me ready to fight in four weeks, but you’ve got to...

We take pride in making our Knockouts Division about wrestling, not about looking pretty.

I’m in professional wrestling, which is what I do for a living. I coordinate stunts. I memorize them.

It took me a few years to explain to my colleagues and my mentors and the people that I looked up to and I wrestled that I’m not in wrestling anymore. I’m in sports entertainment....

Wrestlers in the U.S.A. are very aggressive. All they want to do is attack, but they’ll make mistakes.