Top 121 Quotes & Sayings by Diamond Dallas Page - Page 2

My first match with Bill Goldberg, it was for the World Title in 1998. Bill had only been wrestling a year. Well, we stole the show. Because I was going to make Bill look as good as he was, and he was great. He had that incredible charisma, personality, and that 'it' factor. Rousey has that same thing.

People don't understand, and I do, is what happens after wrestling. What do you do when people stop chanting your name? For me, I already had that with the nightclub business before wrestling and now with DDP YOGA.

In my mind, I always felt like I was worthy. I really felt like, with my career and just the way I did it, it was Hall of Fame-worthy.

I live for inspiring people to do things they think they can't. My goal is to completely eliminate the word 'can't' from the equation.

Nobody can pull you down more than you.

Wrestling is the first reality show. With a reality show, you never what is real and what is not.

I have a huge respect for yoga today.

If you say 'I can't,' you'd better add on 'yet.' Once you start to change that inner dialogue, things that would seem completely impossible become possible.

I'm a big fan of Denzel Washington, and when I met him, he was just cool. And I was glad.

You can meet me - and I won't disappoint. That's how I am.

No one iced their body in professional wrestling before me. I did it because I was 35, 36, 37. I was already what would have been considered an old timer.

I can bend over and put my head between my legs, stick my foot over my head, and stand one leg.

I would have always liked to have worked with Randy Orton because of the Diamond Cutter and the RKO.

I'm that guy. The guy that you think I am, I am. Not everybody can say that.

It took eight years for DDP Yoga to become an overnight sensation.

Rock has the ability to make you feel like you're the only person in the room.

I teach people how to breathe; I teach them how to use dynamic resistance, which is what gets your heart rate jacked up.

You can sit in the chair and do the workout. There's no other program in the world that is like DDP YOGA.

As great as Hulk Hogan was, he still wasn't that great a worker.

Kevin Dunn is great at what he does.

Yoga is 'so hum,' spiritual and all that, and I get it, and I respect that, but that's not what I do. What I do with DDP Yoga, we have changed the face of how it's represented. The spiritual stuff for us is about the power of positivity along with giving people that inner confidence.

The biggest thing I've learned, on the inside of my Hall of Fame ring, normally people put their name. I've put 'Work ethic equals results! DDP.'

Everybody has some kind of addiction. It's about how you get around that addiction. First, you have to break the habit like anything. You have to define the hurdle or the objective.

I don't need to prove anything in that ring anymore. I've done all that.

At 31, I decided to learn how to read and, at 32, read my first book: Lee Iacocca's autobiography. Ten years later, with my friend Larry 'Smokey' Genta, I wrote my first book, which was my proudest accomplishment.

I will greet every person who comes to my workshops and seminars.

I'm all about health.

I try to keep my mind full of really positive stuff.

I always believed I would be in the Hall of Fame when my career came to an end. I just didn't know when.

For the first 42 years of my life, I was the guy who wouldn't be caught dead doing yoga.

You rarely see me without a DDP YOGA shirt on. There are times where I wear a regular shirt when I do an interview, and in the middle of it, I go, 'Wait a second. Let me change my shirt.'

Everything I do, I have a certain amount of pride for.

I was reading at a third-grade level until the age of 30 before I made the decision that I was going to learn how to read.

DDP Yoga was never developed for yoga users: it was developed for people who wouldn't be caught dead doing yoga - the people who really need it.

Once I got done with my career, I knew in my soul that I don't have any negative thoughts about myself.

When you become a wrestler at 35 and your career takes off at 40, nobody believes in you. But there are some people out there who watch how I did it, and I did it through intense work ethic.

When Dusty Rhodes passed away, that hit me hard because I couldn't call him any more. He couldn't bust my chops. He made a huge difference in my life on so many levels.

I'm not scary anymore.

I was the guy from the Jersey Shore, Springsteen country. We don't do yoga there. And we made fun of anybody who did.

Everyone is connected to somebody with some type of addiction. It's so ramped now. Everyone has an uncle, a cousin, somebody who has addiction. We all have addiction.

I want people to retake ownership of their lives. I don't want people with perfect bodies. I want people who are striving to get more fit and feel great. That's what America needs. A lot of American's have lost hope, and I am trying to inspire it back into people.

I help people own their lives.

Once I got done with my career, I knew in my soul that I don't have any negative thoughts about myself. I just don't because I know you say you can and you say can't, you are right. I try to keep my mind full of really positive stuff.

Wrestling is realer than reality TV.

People often think that they are eating really healthy when all the food they are eating is genetically modified. So nothing genetically modified, only real food, grains, brown rice.

When you're serious addict, you tend to lie a lot.

Being a kid, by the time I was three years old, my mom was married, divorced and had three kids; she was 19 - so, my brother's just older than my mom.

I always think anything is possible.

You gotta surround yourself with positive people, people who care.

I don't quit. If someone quits on me, that's on them, but I'm not going to quit, especially if I say I'm gonna do something.

My mom moved up north to make more money to support the family, and I was left with my dad and I was just bounced around from one family to another.

In yoga you reach your arms to the heavens and the universe smiles back at you.

I don't really remember much before was eight, but I do remember that my dad brought me to drop me off at my grandmother's house, and he was a very emotional guy, but that was the first time I really saw him cry, cos I knew it killed him to have to give me up, but he knew I needed some family structure. That was the last time I'd see him or talk to him when he was sober for the next 10 years.

More than anything, for me, is how people really still do care about you.

Work ethic = dreams! That to me is that no one gets a free ride. You have to work for it and it doesn't get handed to you.

Anything's possible. I am the proof.

People are the story they tell themselves.

I'm not looking to do anything for rehab as far as addicts, because that's not really what I do.

Nobody believes in me more than me.

I hate reality TV, because it's so bullshit.