Top 67 Quotes & Sayings by The Undertaker

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American wrestler The Undertaker.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Mark William Calaway, better known by the ring name The Undertaker is an American retired professional wrestler. Widely regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time, Calaway spent the vast majority of his career wrestling for WWF/E, and is best known for his critically acclaimed "Deadman" Undertaker gimmick, for which he was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2022. Calaway remains employed for WWE through a 15-year contract signed in 2019.

American - Wrestler | Born: March 24, 1965

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As long as I can compete with the 20-somethings out there... I have a burning passion to do what I do. Financially, I don't need to wrestle anymore. I do it because I enjoy it.

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Jake 'The Snake' Roberts, man - brilliant mind.

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I never, like, once I got to the WWE and then, I kind of started to realize that we have something special with that character, I was never satisfied. I was like, 'we're here and we're getting a great reaction, but what's next?'

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For me, I didn't have anyone in the wrestling world... trying to get my foot in the door was virtually impossible.

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I've had several joint surgeries just to get floating bone chips and different things removed.

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Back in the old days, you had to work. If you didn't work, you didn't get paid.

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Sometimes you have to set the angle within the match, but you gotta give a reason for one guy to be loved and one guy to be hated.

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Everybody's calling, they want to backflip off this and into that. Once you do that a couple of times, it's like, 'OK, what do you got now?' Well, now I gotta do two flips into that, then two and a half. When they get used to that, what do you do?

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I always told guys you don't date people you work with, it's not going to work. I said it for years and then I broke my own motto.

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You know, obviously I've been around for a while, so I've got a little sweat and blood equity built up.

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When I started out, I was a basketball player at Texas Wesleyan University.

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Both hips have had a form of hip replacement.

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Everything is happening for a reason, it's preparing you for bigger things.

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We use wrestling moves to tell a story but it boils down to the character and being able to bring either love or hate out of your crowd.

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I've had both my eye sockets crushed, I've been set on fire, uh, that was not fun, I've torn a pec, torn biceps.

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With the abuse, and wear and tear the body takes in this career, it's ridiculous to put in that time and effort and have nothing to show for it.

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When I was on the road full-time, there was about an eight, nine year stretch where I averaged, conservatively, 250 days a year out on the road. That's basically you fly into a town, you get a Rent-A-Car, find a hotel, go to the gym, you eat, you go to the arena, go back to the hotel, you wake up, go to the airport and go somewhere else.

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You have to want it and put the work in to be great.

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I think I'm a little tougher than I am smart.

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Just taking a piece of dirt and envisioning the building you'd like to put on it - it's an amazing process.

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Regardless of anything, I'm gonna write my own story and my own ending.

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The old-school Undertaker is my legacy. It's probably what I'm going to be remembered for.

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I always felt like, if I started feeling stale, my audience is probably feeling it before me.

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Kane, my gosh, Kane is just incredibly strong.

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I am and have been the reaper of wayward souls for a long time.

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I believe in God, but I wasn't living my life for God.

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At the end of the day, whatever you're doing in the ring, you want it to look real, and genuine, and authentic.

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WWE is my domain, my yard.

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I was living in my truck, bouncing in bars - a 20-year-old kid trying to break up all these red neck fights. But hey, I did what I had to do to survive.

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If you see me out on the street, you would see me in jeans and cut-off shirt riding a motorcycle.

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I've been concussed I don't know how many times, yeah it's taken a pretty good toll on the body.

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I never tried to put myself in situations where I had to be anything other than what people saw on TV.

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My wildest dreams and the goals that I set for myself, I never imagined the success that I've been blessed with, and believe me, I feel blessed.

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I learned really late. I started leasing a tour bus, which I wish I had done a lot sooner.

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Your transgressions will be punished. Dr. DisRespect, you will rest in peace.

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You either have to make people love you or you have to make them hate you, it doesn't really matter either way. If you can't bring that emotion out of your audience then you're not going to have them for long.

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Even when the business took a real nose-dive, you're thinking, 'OK, how are we gonna get out of this? What we gonna do? We can work harder.'

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Roman Reigns never asked me for my help, that's not who he is.

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I hate, and I hate using that word, that's twice, but people that will do the old take the camera out and do the sneak pic. Like, the guys that are afraid to come up to you, so they'll like try to video you.

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I've always been fascinated with death and darkness, and I still am.

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In the past I led such a mysterious life. I didn't give interviews.

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I've never put a lot into being a celebrity, that just flies over my head because that's not really who I am. But as you can imagine, you get exposed to a lot of different things because of what you do and I lived a pretty excessive lifestyle.

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I'm always looking down the road. Like, 'okay, I need something. I've got to bring something new to the table, but I have to stay true to what my fanbase and my audience, what they've accepted and this is what they want.'

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I evaluate myself at the end of every year.

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Wrestling and sports entertainment is not about the moves, it really isn't. It's about being able to evoke emotion in one facet or another.

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My biggest fear is becoming a parody of myself. That's something I struggle with.

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For years there, I sort of lived the character.

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You can't hide... from The Deadman.

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In all my years here, I don't think I've ever seen quite so many assholes gathered in one place!