Top 104 Quotes & Sayings by Jeff Hardy

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American wrestler Jeff Hardy.
Last updated on September 12, 2024.
Jeff Hardy

Jeffrey Nero Hardy is an American professional wrestler and musician. He is currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW). Hardy is widely considered one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all-time and is regarded as one of the most daring high flyers and risktakers throughout his career. Together with his brother Matt Hardy, the tag team The Hardy Boyz are now widely regarded as one of the greatest tag teams in professional wrestling history.

I started wrestling professionally, I did my first television match at 16, but I was wrestling at country fairs and national armories when I was 14.
Shawn Michaels was the guy to study and watch.
I'm good at professional wrestling, and I always will be good, but what's always been different about me is that I can't completely focus on professional wrestling. — © Jeff Hardy
I'm good at professional wrestling, and I always will be good, but what's always been different about me is that I can't completely focus on professional wrestling.
Whether I ever become WWE champion in my career, I'm proud of what I've done.
When I was a kid, I wrestled my high school amateur wrestling in junior year.
To me, wrestling is just as cool as it ever was.
Luckily, I'm only aware of about two or three concussions that I have had, but there's really no way of telling how many overall.
I just want to go out there and have the best matches I possibly can.
I don't want to go back to WWE and burn out within four or five months, and having another run as TNA world champion would feel just as good.
Early, when I first started wrestling, I wanted to be a combination of Sting and the Ultimate Warrior: The Ultimate Warrior's craziness and weird personality and Sting's coolness and the way he carried himself to the ring. But then later on, when it came to physicality and athleticism, Shawn Michaels topped the cake.
Edge is such a great guy.
I really hate my hair when it's not braided because it's so big when it dries. When it's wet, it looks cool, but when it dries, it gets all in my mouth during a match, and I hate it.
Once I established myself doing crazy things and being extreme, people want to see it all the time. — © Jeff Hardy
Once I established myself doing crazy things and being extreme, people want to see it all the time.
I've always dreamt of somewhere down the line getting one match out of Hogan, just because that was always a dream.
I would love to get into acting. I really enjoy acting - portraying other personalities and approaching different levels and whatnot - that would be awesome.
The roots that weave up my right arm and onto my neck are my way of connecting with the earth: the earth's roots carry water like a human's veins carry blood.
I'm not really a popular fan of the whole Hall of Fame thing. I've had a lot of ups and downs, and I don't feel deserving a lot of times.
Any time it's a Swanton, I'm confident. But if I feel I can't do it, I won't do it.
I take a lot of risks in the ring.
Being myself is what got me to where I am.
The Undertaker's beaten me down pretty bad quite a few times.
My brother Matt and I, we have a great relationship.
I'm still a fan at heart.
People ask me how I am so fearless on a ladder and how I have no fear in the ring. And the answer to that question is a bit complicated. I used to have no fear, but that is no longer true. With a wife and two girls at home, I'm more afraid now than ever.
I look at tattoos as a commitment to life.
That's really important to me - creating moments that last forever.
My first match was against Razor Ramon. I lost. Come to think about it, I lost a lot back in those days.
I'll do anything. That has proven problematic - you may remember my broken leg in a dirt bike accident - but that is also the ingredient that has allowed me to elevate myself in pro wrestling.
I would love to end my career as World Champion.
I'm looking forward to having one of those moments that will be immortal.
I remember 'Wrestlemania 6' with The Ultimate Warrior against Hulk Hogan. It was so cool to see those guys go in there and the fans getting into the match so much.
Ric Flair, The Freebirds, and The Rockers were great influences in my decision to become a wrestler.
It's good to establish moves that fans are always going to recognize and scream for.
You can't go wrong with reading the fans and letting them tell you who they like. I think that's really paid off for me in the long run - being down to earth and just really cool with each and every fan that I meet - and they've really supported me through thick and thin.
The Great Khali always serves up a good beatdown if you can't get out from under that heavy hand.
I was obsessed with it, and then I learned more about professional wrestling and how the beauty that does exist in it is truly an art form.
Just spending time with fans and acting normal and talking to them just like I was one of their boys, that's what it's all about.
Overall, I think I'm just lucky, and I hope I continue to be lucky. — © Jeff Hardy
Overall, I think I'm just lucky, and I hope I continue to be lucky.
For special wrestlers, there's somewhere else to go - as long as you're not brainwashed by that WWE mentality. There's other worlds out there; it's OK to switch around.
When I broke my leg on the dirt bike, fear got the best of me that day. I hesitated. I didn't hit it as fast as I could have, and I came up short. It was the first time in my life I couldn't get back up.
I find inspiration for my works of art in my studio and in the squared circle from all sorts of places.
I got the dragon on my leg when I was still living with my dad. He's not a fan of tattoos, so I had to get it behind his back; he kind of freaked out when he saw it.
Thank God for TNA: we've had the creative freedom to do what we want to do.
I'm not a big practice guy at all.
I compliment people when I see something I really like and tell them, 'That was good. Keep doing what you're doing.' That's as much as advice as you will get out of me.
I've learned that I can still be loved if I perform well, and I learned that from the broken brilliance of Matt Hardy.
I can't wrestle a match without getting my ankles taped because they feel like they'll shatter on me.
I still look forward to doing things I've never done before. But the fear beforehand is always worse than the actual moment. Leading up to it, especially before the match, is when the butterflies are at their worst. But in the match, the creatures - my fans - fuel me. They're a huge superpower for me and my survival.
I never view myself as a leader. — © Jeff Hardy
I never view myself as a leader.
We may never be as big as WWE, but the cool thing about TNA is that we are the alternative. So people who get tired and bored with the WWE - I've been there, I understand - there's an alternative and something else to watch.
I've got my hardcore fans, and I thank them so much for being there for me and not giving up on me.
When I wrestled Randy Orton, that was probably the biggest match of my career at that point, because that was when I had the other shot at the WWE championship.
If Meekmahan ever came to the Hardy compound, I would tell Meekmahan, face-to-face, 'You'll fade away and classify yourself as obsolete! Obsolete!'
Sting was one of my first and biggest influences. One night in North Carolina, when I reached out and touched his shoulder, he had the face paint on, and I didn't know why, but I loved it. I wanted to be just like him, and I was only 11 years old.
I've rung my bells so many times, especially back in the day when chair shots to the head were legal. My goodness, I took so many of those.
TNA is great about going out of their way to interact with the fans.
When you commit to a WWE contract, you're committing to some serious time away from home.
When the time is yours, the future is waiting, The person you become, and the people you're creating.
Happiness is a road seldom traveled by the multitudes. If you find it, please, don't take it for granted. If you Happen to stray from it, don't let negative obstacles overcome you. Anger and rage only detour you from your final objectives. The future holds nothing but opportunity, and good things happen to good people I promise
Don't think you can...know you can! Your human body is the most impressive tool that you will ever own. Even if you can't control everything...you can always control something. Your body - Use it...Amuse it...because one day...you're going to lose it.
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