#wrestling

In wrestling, nothing exists unless it exists totally, there is no symbol, no allusion, everything is given exhaustively; leaving nothing in shadow, the gesture severs every parasitical meaning and ceremonially presents the public with a pure and full signification, three dimensional, like Nature. Such emphasis is nothing but the popular and ancestral image of the perfect intelligibility of reality. What is enacted by wrestling, then, is an ideal intelligence of things, a euphoria of humanity, raised for a while out of the constitutive ambiguity of everyday situations and installed in a panoramic vision of a univocal Nature, in which signs finally correspond to causes without obstacle, without evasion, and without contradiction. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#intelligence

Most people don't know that wrestling came out of the circus. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#circus #know #most #out #people

Wrestling is ballet with violence. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#ballet #violence #wrestling

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. ↗

— Dwayne Johnson

#like #me #stand-up #stand-up comedy #wrestling

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining. ↗

— Dwayne Johnson

#comedy #craziest #entertaining #every #every night

If I play my cards right, I could bring network wrestling back to TV. Unfortunately, to most people, wrestling is a laughingstock. But fortunately, I'm reaching people who otherwise wouldn't watch it. ↗

— Andy Kaufman

#bring #cards #could #fortunately #i

There's no drama like wrestling. ↗

— Andy Kaufman

#like #wrestling

Each culture has its own form of staged combat, evolved from its particular method of street fighting and cleaned up for presentation as a spectacle, e.g. savate, Cornish wrestling, karate, kung-fu. ↗

— David Mamet

#combat #culture #each #evolved #fighting

I do find myself drawn more to pieces that I feel are wrestling with the way that we're living now, what we're all going through. ↗

— Edward Norton

#feel #find #going #i #i do

After watching wrestling for 20 years, I thought I had enough confidence to do it. There were no wrestling schools at the time. ↗

— Hulk Hogan

#confidence #enough #had #had enough #i