100 Quotes by Bruno Sammartino

I don't want this to come out the wrong way, but in the '60s and '70s, I don't know anybody who was known around the world like I was.

Anytime that people feel that you accomplished enough to enter into a Hall of Fame, of course this is a tremendous, tremendous thrill for me.

In the old days wrestling had a certain showmanship. All those people paid their dues. They knew how to wrestle.

In every city, I had my favorite place. In Baltimore, it was Sabatino's.

I had a lot of my success due to appearing at the Garden. I wrestled there over 200 times, it's where I won the title, and it's where I picked up 630-plus pounds of Haystacks Calhoun.

I lost a brother and a sister, and I came down with rheumatic fever.

I was in the business for almost a quarter of a century, and I'm very proud of my career.

When I broke my neck, I was told that I came within a millimeter of dying or being paralyzed from the neck down. When it happened, I was numb on one side. In spite of how serious they were telling me it was, I never took it seriously. I kept saying it's going to be OK, I trained too hard to get hurt. Which is silly.

We lived off the land in Italy.