18 Quotes by Gene Okerlund

For the most part I'm living the life I want to lead.

I think as time goes on, people may realize the golden age of wrestling may have been in the 1970s and early 1980s.

People loved to hate Bobby Heenan.

I finished high school and studied at the University of Nebraska in the school of journalism, which really turned me onto journalism. I never finished, but the very little that I did learn in two-and-a-half-years prepared me for a career in legitimate journalism, which included WWE, AWA, WCW, and everything in-between.

I think I have some advice for both the talent, and the 'powers that be' in professional wrestling. I would say let the guys say it their own way and let them put their own matches together.

We know somebody's got to win, somebody's got to lose, but aside from that, there's a lot of latitude and spontaneity and free-wheeling that I think would make it a much better product. I'm not knocking the product on RAW or Smackdown or NXT; these guys are good, but they're following a television format.

Goldberg is destined for stardom.

There have been many matches where a wrestler gets hurt. The referee usually senses it and stops the match, but the referee doesn't always know.

People expect you to top yourself - to always have more and bigger.