Top 116 Quotes & Sayings by Roddy Piper - Page 2

I'm as real as they come.

A lot of guys that were trailblazers, if we were to go back to the actual time, were just really scared and had no choice, but the water's rushing in, and you either swim or sink.

I was 15 years old when I started wrestling full time, and I know what I had to go through to get here.

My first match lasted 10 seconds, and I lost.

I never faked my emotions or my desire to be a winner.

The WWE gave me a family and a life.

When I was 14, I was 5th in the world playing bagpipes - that's how I got the name Roddy the Piper, and then, you know, eventually it just became 'Roddy Piper.'

I'm kind of a go-get-'em kind of guy.

We got an old saying: I would rather you punch my teeth down my throat than throw a popcorn punch!

One night, I knocked out Mr. T, kicked Cyndi Lauper, chased Dick Clark back to his locker room, and slapped Little Richard.

Wrestlers are the best.

I'm not as sharp as I used to be.

I left home when I was 13. When I was 15, I was living in a youth hostel, and I was the 167-pound amateur wrestling champion.

I'm very proud of The Rock.

Wrestling saved my life.

It was by accident I got into wrestling. Somebody didn't show up, and I just filled in.

The business has taken a toll on me.

I owe everything to my fans. They were the ones who cheered for me, and they were the ones who gave me the means to provide for my kids.

I'd never seen a professional wrestling match. First one I saw, I was in. It was just an accident.

When I get to Heaven, I'll want to fight.

I've had over seven thousand pro fights.

Only thing I ever thought I'd see is a picture with me in a uniform with stripes on it and a number under my mug shot.

You never let somebody come from outside the business, have their way with the business, and then leave the next day and laugh at you. How the hell does David Arquette become World Champion?

I broke my right ankle. Four ribs. One rib went into my liver. My spleen. My back in two places.

I ran out of tears when I was 14.

I'm so quick, I could spit in the wind, duck, and let it hit the old lady behind me.

Nature Boy, whats that? Do you run around the forest like Euell Gibbons, eating bark or something?

Ever notice Hulk Hogan ain't got no hair on his chest? The only one who's got hair on their chest on their team is Cindy Lauper.

You'll find sympathy in the dictionary between sh*t and suicide.

Does the tounge hanging out help his balance?

I'm the reason Hulk Hogan lost his hair.

I never envisioned myself being a film star at all. Most people know that pro wrestling is a little bit of an accident for me. I never really had any real aspirations of being in front of a camera.

Fighting is not internal, but it can be very spiritual. Everything acting is internal. One of my problems in making the transition is pulling back, but I'm working on it.

Oh, here he comes now, the May West of pro-wrestling.

My friends keep telling me I'm doing it with Mary Palmer. That's not true - I'm too busy masturbating to meet anyone new.

Sooner or later, everybody pays the Piper!

Wrestling and acting couldn't be anymore different in terms of what it takes to entertain. Wrestling is explosion, acting is implosion. One really screws up the other.

I think that I just wasn't brought up under any rules, and I think that made me a little different and people wanted to look up to that or aspire to that, and that makes me very grateful.

Ric Flair, you once called me a woman. Well, what I want to know is, how does it feel to get beat by a woman?

He mighta spent a couple years under the arena training young wrestlers.

Rowdy Roddy cut his locks; but don't worry woman, he's still a fox.

I came here to chew bubble gum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubble gum.

He's as strong as an ox...and ALMOST as smart!

Just when you think you know the answers, I change the questions.

I like the fact that I can go away and lose myself so I don't have to live in the world of courage that everyone else does. I like creating, it's what I do, and acting allows me to stretch all those different muscles in all kinds of ways. That's pretty cool.

Jerry Lawler walks in here with his crown - DA DA DUM - Imperial Margerine - and talks about what he's going to do to me. Lawler, if you think you're going to beat me, if you think you can do ANYTHING to me, than you really are the king. King of FOOLS, jack!!

Do you know you couldn't get a date with a $20 bill taped to your forehead?

Aww, whats the problem, gertrude? You mean to tell me that you can't walk into a bar with a $100 bill on your forehead and walk with anything, either male or female?

You don't throw rocks at a man with a machine gun!

Did your parents build knows you a swing facing a wall when you were a kid?

Ric Flair is out there crying, his nose is running. He's probably drowning from the size of his nose running.

I was pissin' Vince McMahon off when the red on the back of your neck was diaper rash!

My business in the beginning was very lawless and the more trouble I go into, the more the promoters liked me back then. I was on the front page for doing something wrong, the arena was full. Then, all of a sudden, everything changed somehow and they put rules in. You put rules in a gunfight? I'm not so good at following those rules. I don't' know what will happen at WrestleMania.

Ric Flair, the Slim Whitman of Pro-Wrestling.

I don't need to know how tough I am to know how tough I am.

I walk so fast, I talk so fast, I could turn the light off and be in bed before the room's dark.