Top 103 Quotes & Sayings by Bobby Lashley

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American wrestler Bobby Lashley.
Last updated on December 23, 2024.
Bobby Lashley

Franklin Roberto Lashley is an American professional wrestler, mixed martial artist and bodybuilder. He is currently signed with WWE, where he performs on the Raw brand under the ring name Bobby Lashley and is the current WWE United States Champion in his third reign. He is an eight-time world champion, having been a two-time WWE Champion, two-time ECW World Champion, and four-time Impact World Heavyweight Champion. Lashley is also known for his mixed martial arts (MMA) career in Bellator MMA and Strikeforce.

With wrestling, we're still athletes. I train like we're an athlete as opposed to a body builder. Some people still have that body-builder mentality. But not from me. I do a lot of agility work and stuff like that.
I think the problem people get into is they want to go into the gym and look at other people's workouts, or they want to lift what other people are lifting. I started out really small. I actually did a lot of research, and I learned all about working out. So take gradual steps.
When I started, I just put my nose to the grindstone, had great trainers and opponents like Fit Finlay, Arn Anderson, Booker T, Umaga and Bob Holly, and good things started to happen.
The only way to survive is to get back up. — © Bobby Lashley
The only way to survive is to get back up.
Working out is simple if you know what to do.
Everybody else has the same 24 hours, but I'm going to make the most of my 24 hours.
I love wrestling, and of course WWE is the main stage, but I'm happy to be with TNA.
I want that fight with Brock Lesnar. I don't care if it's the ring, the cage, or in a street fight.
Samoa Joe is great at kickboxing; he's super aggressive - he's tough.
Wrestling is in my blood.
Everyone likes to be the heel. Everyone wants to be the bad guy. I mean, I love being the bad guy, but the crowd doesn't want me to be a bad guy. In real life, I'm too much of a good guy to be a bad guy.
I don't want to be bothered when I'm stretching. I need to focus.
Traveling is a part of the business. I think it's really the hardest part of the business because the wrestling part is the easy part - something I love and enjoy doing.
Eric Young is phenomenal. Bobby Roode - every time I get in the ring with those guys, it's almost like magic. — © Bobby Lashley
Eric Young is phenomenal. Bobby Roode - every time I get in the ring with those guys, it's almost like magic.
MMA - for me, it was something that I needed to challenge myself.
I'm a father, and that is the absolute most important thing in my life.
When I was with WWE before, I was a big guy throwing people around - power moves. Then after that, when I left WWE, I was like, 'I still enjoy professional wrestling,' but some of the smaller guys look up at me and say, 'I don't wanna wrestle him. I don't wanna get thrown around by that guy.'
Once you catch that fever of wrestling, you really can't get it out.
I'm not the type to call people out.
Every time I go out there, I have something to prove. Something more, something different.
I'm a product of amateur wrestling, and there is no one there to help you with matches or win matches - you have to do it yourself.
When you get to a certain level in wrestling, you got to be the ring general, and I've been in wrestling for a long time. And I can be a ring general against anybody.
Kurt Angle was amazing. He was the person who got me into pro wrestling. He found me when I was at the Olympic training center just wrestling, amateur wrestling.
You can scout people as much as you want. At the end of the day, it's a fight, so you got to be ready for almost anything.
We have to start encouraging people to step out of their comfort zones and start doing new things. Anything anybody does new, there are a bunch of naysayers.
I don't spoil myself on extravagant cars or spending money on jewelry. So I save a lot of the money I have.
I've never been a politics guy in wrestling; I'm just someone who came out and worked.
In wrestling, you've got to be an athlete. You can't just be a body builder; you can't just be this big strong guy who picks people up and throws them around. For longevity in the business, you got to keep your body fit and together.
I don't eat for pleasure; I eat for performance.
We had some rough times in TNA. We had some pay issues, and this and that, they were some other issues. But at that time, we were working harder than we ever worked. Even though, you know, we were being paid late and all, we worked harder than we worked before.
If you want to go for the title, you go for the title, and you fight. You don't run away; you fight.
I was excited 'Maxim' wanted me to be in Expert Fitness.
When I went to Impact, it was me proving myself on a daily basis to a lot of different people. I mean, I had matches with Austin Aries, matches with Jeff Hardy, Bobby Roode, Drew McIntyre. I mean, I wrestled everyone. During that time, I wasn't just sitting back saying, 'Man, I hope WWE picks me up. I hope they see me. I hope to get back.'
I wanted to go into this fight business, and I wanted to go into it full force. So when you do something like that - enter into a new venture - it keeps you very busy.
WWE is not just about fighting; we're about the community.
Everybody gives Trump an extremely bad rap. He's a businessman, so he is not trying to rub your back and tell you everything is going to be OK. He is going to set standards and, when everything is in chaos, you need someone who is willing to do what needs to be done.
You only live once, so you got to do as much as you can in the time that you have.
Bobby Roode is amazing.
I can't even begin to entertain another wrestler's perception of me if they don't understand what my fans look for in me. I'm different; I'm different. — © Bobby Lashley
I can't even begin to entertain another wrestler's perception of me if they don't understand what my fans look for in me. I'm different; I'm different.
I got to fight off haters on a regular basis.
When people underestimate or think my success has come easily, that doesn't bother me.
When you put wrestlers on TV, they're the highest professionals in the business.
I grew up with nothing, and that was my motivation.
Anything can happen in a fight, and anything can happen in training.
When I go to Japan, they don't care if you win or lose; they just want to see a good fight.
One of my first overseas trips with WWE was to France. I walked out of our hotel, and I see a little kid walking toward me with his mom. He gets a couple of steps past me and he stops in his tracks. I see his mom do a little bit of a double-take, then he runs over and just grabs on and starts hugging my leg as hard as he can, then he starts crying.
I like to get the blood flowing and get as loose as I can possibly get. It's not very difficult to hurt yourself out there if you aren't prepared, especially in a Fatal Four Way.
I'm not covering up. I don't need a t-shirt on to go wrestle.
That's why I love wrestling: because there's so many different people. I love everybody, from Hornswoggle to the Great Khali to Seth Rollins, to The Bludgeon Brothers. I love everything about wrestling because of that.
I am really simple with diets. I say feed your frame. — © Bobby Lashley
I am really simple with diets. I say feed your frame.
A lot of people look at me as such a nice guy; they don't understand how dangerous I can actually be.
A lot of times, professional athletes say, 'I'm not a role model; I'm an athlete.' I don't mind being a role model because I know what I've done in order to make it to where I am right now. It's a lot of hard work; it's a tremendous amount of hard work. But in order to be make it to a certain level, everybody knows it's going to take time.
There's only so far you can push a man.
WWE is there for the soldiers.
When you get put in a position like that, to shave off the hair of the boss of the company, they're putting a lot of faith in you, and they believe in you.
My family comes from Panama, and I grew up in a single parent household with my mother, who barely spoke English. She couldn't get a good job, yet there were four of us for her to raise.
Everybody wants to be a critic: a critic without the actual accolades to be a critic.
When I head into the cage for an MMA fight, for that time inside the cage, I hate the person standing across the cage. I want to beat him up and beat him up to the point where he never wants to go against me again. After the fight, I can shake his hands, and he - we can be best friends. It's the same thing in professional wrestling.
I'd like to someday possibly come out with a workout video or even a manual just to teach people the things I know.
I have a fanbase, and I have a large fanbase, and there's a lot of people that like me, and there's a lot of people that support me, and there's a lot of people that can relate to me.
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