Eddie Kingston

The thing about wrestling in front of eight people in a bingo hall is that the spots still hurt. The chops still hurt. Your body still hurts the next day. But when you love wrestling, it doesn't matter. You do it for the pride and the respect of the business.

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ECW, it wasn't characters, it was like real guys I knew from the street corner.

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I learned about racism in like second grade. By sixth, seventh grade I was like well, next person who makes fun of me I'm gonna start swinging.

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I kicked out of my first wrestling school. Me and my old partner and a bunch of other friends, we were so desperate to keep learning, that we got our money together, we rented a ring and paid for Ted Dibiase to come and teach us.

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Bad days, man, are when you wake up and you just don't want to do anything. And it's not out of laziness. It's just your mentally in your own head and you start beating yourself up before you even take the first step out of bed. It's one of the weirdest feelings I can describe to people.

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Tracy Smothers was the first guy to believe in me and my old partner Blackjack. He was the first veteran that we met at the time who actually went out of his way and was so open, honest, and wanted to help us. He just loved pro wrestling. It was insane to me how much Tracy loved pro wrestling and he loved you if you were a wrestler.

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I mean I watched WWF like everybody else, but it always felt kind of soft to me.

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Quotes by Eddie Kingston