100 Quotes by Bruno Sammartino

Listen, when I was real young, I thought I was made out of steel. I didn't think anything could hurt me, I was so powerful. But as time goes on, you find out you are not made of steel.

Wrestling is how I made my living and supported my family, but it's over. I don't want anything to do with it anymore.

Franco Corelli is my favorite tenor.

With Paul Levesque and the conversations we have had I've found him to be a straight shooter and everything he said with me he kept his word 100%.

They call me 'The Maniac' as far as training goes. I'm a fanatic. I run 10 miles every day and I train three hours every other day with barbells. Nobody trains that hard. And that's not bragging.

I work out about three hours a day, four days a week to keep in shape.

I very seldom look at wrestling magazines. Whenever I do, I get angry.

Stan Hansen was a different ballgame. I broke my neck wrestling him in Madison Square Garden. I spent a month in the hospital and for a while it was touch and go because the doctors told me I came within a millimeter of being paralyzed from the neck down.

Haystacks Calhoun has never been lifted because he has never been in the ring with Bruno Sammartino.