The Ultimate Warrior

Wrestler

1959-06-16

Quotes by The Ultimate Warrior

• The family that I live for only breathes the air that smells of combat.

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• Every man's heart one day beats its final beat. His lungs breathe a final breath. And if what that man did in his life makes the blood pulse through the body of others, and makes them bleed deeper and something larger than life, then his essence, his spirit, will be immortalized.

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• I was actually going to school to be a chiropractor but was also succeeding at bodybuilding - I did well in a few national contests.

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• The toughest opponent for me would have been Randy Savage, the Macho Man, because his intensity paralleled mine.

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• During the second term of the Clinton presidency... I thought, 'Here is the literal and figurative role model for the United States of America behaving like a perverted little kid.' I just found it all really unmanly and undignified.

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• I remember travelling up and down the road, and I kept journals during my whole career, and I was always making notes about things I wanted to say, words I wanted to create, actions I wanted to do, things I wanted to do to make the character more imaginative and fantastical.

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• The spirit of the Ultimate Warrior will live forever.

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• I remember Wrestlemania VI, being in my locker room painting my face, about halfway done, and the production guys came, and they knocked on the door, and they came in. I was looking in the mirror at them, and they said, 'Hey, Warrior, we've got a cart to take you to the ring.' I just looked at them, and I said, 'I'm running to the ring.'

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• If I was young again and wanted to be a professional wrestler, first thing I'd do is get jacked all to hell is what I'd do.

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• In comic books, every character exists in this comic book world, and the wrestlers were the same thing. They were responsible for creating that world and putting it out there - having the confidence to go forward and do that and behave in a certain way.

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• No WWE talent becomes a legend on their own.

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• The Ultimate Warrior character relative to professional wrestling or WWE, he's definitely a Hall of Famer. He's a Hall of Famer whether he gets into the Hall of Fame or not.

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• I could have been in a house show the day before being flown in to do the Survivor Series. I'd do that pay-per-view, then fly out the next day to go do another house show. The pay-per-view just happened in the middle of a 30 or 40-day road tour. For us back then, the WWF talent, it was just another day of work, another day of being on the road.

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• There's a frenetic energy in screaming and yelling and being a rebel in a way.

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