Top 121 Quotes & Sayings by Diamond Dallas Page
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American wrestler Diamond Dallas Page.
Last updated on September 12, 2024.
One of my favorite things to do when I wasn't competing was to watch the cruiserweights.
The nWo pursued me for a while. To be perfectly honest, I think WCW management purposely kept me off 'Nitro' for a while to keep the nWo from getting to me.
I can't tell you how many times I hit that mat, especially that first year, where I said to myself, 'Man, this fake stuff hurts like hell. Do I really want to do this?' And every time, I would come back, 'Yeah, I wanna do this.'
Some of my biggest victories have come directly after some of my biggest failures.
I wrote a book called 'Yoga for Regular Guys.' We made the title of the book funny, but it was actually super serious. We were trying to get regular guys to do yoga. It just kept developing from there, and the concept eventually turned into DDP YOGA. I am so passionate about it.
In living life at 90 percent, the formula is life is 10 percent of what happens to you and 90 percent of how you react to it.
No matter how bad or negative it gets, I somehow try to find the silver lining.
God has blessed me on a lot of levels. Have I worked for it? Absolutely. But it still takes that blessing.
When you look at me in the beginning of '96 and at the end of '96, I'm two different people.
I'm all about owning your life.
If you say you can or if you say you can't... you're right.
I stretched my whole career - it didn't save me when I blew my back, and of course, that's where the whole things of DDP Yoga comes from.
Without Dusty Rhodes, there is no Diamond Dallas Page. He took me under his wing and believed in me when nobody did - nobody.
Bottom line is don't ever be afraid to fail.
I didn't develop DDP YOGA for yogis. DDP YOGA is its own animal; if yoga was a bicycle, DDP YOGA would be a Harley.
When I came into WWE after Monday Night Wars, it wasn't my greatest time in the business... but they kept bringing me back.
If you teach someone your craft, while you're teaching them, you're going to learn because you're going to get better at teaching, which is going to make you better at whatever you're doing.
When my career took off like a rocket in '97 - me against the nWo and Randy Savage - I wasn't just a top guy, I was the top guy, and then in '98, I blew my back out.
How could I not be the underdog, starting at 35 and a half and going from a manager and a fourth-string color commentator to being a wrestler?
Wrestling is cyclical. And if you look at the '80s, it had an unbelievable run, and then it just fell down. '90s had the biggest run ever because of the Monday Night Wars.
Relationships are everything; a lot of people say it's who you know and who knows you. I believe it's all about who is willing to step up and say they know you. Who's willing to put their name on the line for you.
One of my biggest supporters is Gerry Briscoe.
I told people I was going to be a wrestler, and they fell down laughing.
I don't think I'll ever be out of wrestling, because I was that kid at 8 years old that dreamed of being a world champion.
I always saw myself working a WrestleMania.
I used to run a night club in Fort Myers, Florida called Norma Jean's Dance Club. That was the hottest spot from Sarasota to Cuba.
One thing 'The Very Best of WCW 'Monday Nitro'' really captures, which I remember very well about WCW, was how absolutely electric the crowds were.
I'm always like Mickey Mouse with tattoos.
Wrestling and horror just sort of go together.
I was sort of like a scout for Eric Bischoff if I saw people who had the talent. Sometimes I wouldn't bring people to him until they had the gimmick, like Raven.
Vince McMahon made me a much better businessman, and I'm super thankful to him.
My business wouldn't be doing as strong as it is without the support of WWE.
The run that I had - which really was, like, four months in the WWE - it wasn't great. But my opening day was great. My opening day was humongous. And then WrestleMania was pretty much my closing card. I did one 'Raw' after that, but that WrestleMania 18 match that I had with Christian, that was a hell of a match.
I had some great matches with 'Macho Man,' but the one at Halloween Havoc in 1997 was intense, and Havoc was the perfect venue for a Last Man Standing Match.
Flexibility is youth.
Bottom line is, work ethic equals dreams, and I am walking proof that that's a fact.
If WCW and Eric Bischoff hadn't brought in the cruiserweights, I don't think the company would have ever gotten to where it was.
All the competitors knew the importance of Halloween Havoc. It was the WCW equivalent to SummerSlam.
From wrestling, I learned what I'm not going to do again.
The elaborate sets and the theme of Halloween Havoc as a whole is what I think really caught the attention of the fans. Add in the explosive contests we had every year at the event, and it was definitely the perfect precursor to Starrcade.
I live by the business model that there is a better than, a less than, or a different than. Those are the three categories. I chose to be different than. The one that's different than will stand out with the proper work ethic.
I don't think there is anybody, including Jeff Hardy, who puts their body through as much abuse as A. J. Styles.
Everybody on top has a ton of haters.
You'll never see me in an airport without a DDP YOGA shirt. It says, 'It Ain't Your Mama's Yoga' on the back and 'DDP YOGA' in the front. Every time I walk around, people see the shirt, and it makes them smile.
Through wrestling, my second home was Fort Myers, Florida.
People used to say, 'Well, how do you fake that?' Two words - we don't. When you got hit with the chair, you got hit with the chair.
P90X and Insanity are awesome workouts for young guys who aren't beat up. DDPYoga is for guys who are beat up. It's the fountain of youth for beat-up guys.
I started wrestling when I was 35, but my career didn't take off until I was 40.
I let the WWE control my destiny, and it didn't work out so well.
I used to say Page Joseph Falkinburg - which is my given name - when Page Joseph Falkinburg stopped trying to be this over-the-top professional wrestler, Diamond Dallas Page, and Diamond Dallas Page became Page Joseph Falkinburg, that's when my career took off.
I'm not going to have anyone tell me what I can do promoting my product.
I challenge anyone to find a better match than me and Goldberg at Havoc '98. There are few matches that were as physical, exhausting, and psychological as that one.
I don't want to spoil this for anybody but wrestling, sports entertainment, is 'pre-determined.'
I worked the bar business in Fort Lauderdale.
Originally, when I was introduced to yoga, I kept resisting. I kept saying that I wouldn't be caught dead doing yoga.
In our personal and professional lives, we are constantly hit with one adversity after the other, most of which we have no control over. But the four things we have total control over is how we react, how we adapt, how we breathe, and how we take action.
People don't understand that, when I was at WCW, if I wasn't wrestling that night, I was down at the Power Plant teaching. I was teaching people how to do stuff, but every time you teach someone, you learn more. The more you learn, the more you teach. The more you teach, the better you get.
When I blew my back out at age 42, I said, 'Okay, I've got to be more concerned about food and health.'
I knew no one had better ring psychology than Jake Roberts.
That diamond cutter sign became my moniker.
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