Selected Hulk Hogan Quotes
Hulk Hogan- Terry Gene Bollea (born August 11, 1953), better known by his ring name Hulk Hogan, is a retired American professional wrestler and actor. He is widely regarded as the most globally recognized wrestler, the most popular wrestler of the 1980s, as well as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time.
In 1977, he began his professional wrestling career, but only gained worldwide recognition in 1983, after signing for the World Wrestling Federation or WWF, now known as WWE. His persona as a heroic all-American helped usher in the 1980s professional wrestling boom. He headlined WrestleMania for a record of eight times. He headlined a combined 31 times the Saturday Night's Main Event and its spin-off The Main Event. He won the WWF Championship five times, with his first reign being the second-longest in the championship's history. He is the first wrestler to win consecutive Royal Rumble matches, winning in 1990 and 1991. His match with Andre the Giant on WWF's The Main Event on February 5, 1988, still holds American television viewership records for wrestling with a 15.2 Nielsen rating and 33 million viewers.
In 1993, he departed the WWF to pursue a career in film and television but he was lured back to the ring when he signed with rival promotion World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in 1994. He won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship six times, and holds the record for the longest reign.
In 1996, he underwent a career renaissance upon adopting the villainous persona of "Hollywood Hulk Hogan" in which he led the popular New World Order (nWo) stable of wrestlers..This resulted in him becoming a major figure during the "Monday Night Wars", which was another boom for mainstream professional wrestling. He headlined WCW's annual flagship event Starrcade three times, including the most profitable WCW pay-per-view ever, Starrcade 1997.
He returned to the WWF in 2002 following its acquisition of WCW the prior year, winning the Undisputed WWF Championship for his record equaling (for the time) sixth reign before departing in 2003. He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2005, and inducted a second time in 2020 as a member of the nWo.
He has also performed for the American Wrestling Association (AWA), New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) where he was the inaugural winner of the original IWGP Heavyweight Championship, and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling or TNA which is now Impact Wrestling.
During and after wrestling, he had an extensive acting career, beginning with his 1982 cameo role in Rocky III. He has also starred in several films which includes "No Holds Barred", "Suburban Commando" and "Mr. Nanny". He also has three television shows which are "Hogan Knows Best", "Thunder in Paradise", and "China, IL". He also did "Right Guard commercials" and the video game "Hulk Hogan's Main Event". He was also the frontman for "The Wrestling Boot Band", whose sole record, "Hulk Rules", reached No. 12 on the "Billboard Top Kid Audio chart" in 1995. (Source: Wikipedia).
Selected Hulk Hogan Quotes:
“I fear no man, no beast or evil, brother.”
Hulk Hogan, Courage
“I promised each and every Hulkamaniac when I went to that great battlefield in the sky I would bring the WWF title with me.”
Hulk Hogan, Goals
“Hopefully I can become the Babe Ruth of the World Wrestling Federation and be the champion at the same time.”
Hulk Hogan, Goals
“We’re probably the opposite of the Osbournes. We run a very tight ship.”
Hulk Hogan, Goals
“Train. Say your prayers. Eat your vitamins.”
Hulk Hogan, Goals
“To all my little Hulkamaniacs, say your prayers, take your vitamins and you will never go wrong.”
Hulk Hogan, Goals
“If I have a problem with someone I talk about them. I don’t pick on their kids.”
Hulk Hogan, Goals, Problems
“I’m real critical of myself and if I take the bandana off my head I’m completely bald headed and go from being 58 to looking 68 instantly.”
Hulk Hogan, Goals, Life
“People are really nice in the world. The majority of every single person I meet is really nice. Some people get excited, and some people freak out when they accidentally run into me, but across the board most people are really nice, so I just like to treat people how they treat me.”
Hulk Hogan, Goals, Life
“In the ring, it’s fun to be the bad guy, but 24 hours a day, when you have to talk to kids, and you see Make-A-Wish kids that love you, the bad guy stuff is not fun. I’d rather be a good guy 24 hours a day than a bad guy just for a few minutes in the ring.”
Hulk Hogan, Goals, Life
“I’m 58 years old and I just went through 8 back surgeries. They started cutting on me in February 2009, and I was basically bed ridden for almost two years. I got a real dose of reality that if you don’t have your health, you don’t have anything.”
Hulk Hogan, Life
“A lot of people didn’t realize that with the carpet being pulled out from under me in such a short time frame I got to such a bad place.”
Hulk Hogan, Life
“I’ve been knocked out a few times, but I have no idea how many concussions I’ve ever had.”
Hulk Hogan, Life
“I train all the time and the weird thing is I’m in the gym with people between 20 and 25 years old and I look in the mirror and I look better than they do and they are young kids – either they haven’t trained hard enough or they aren’t serious enough.”
Hulk Hogan, Life
“If I do hit that rope and do a hop, skip and a jump and get up as high as I can, I’m just going to hold my breath, because I know i’m going to hear all kinds of scar tissue popping.”
Hulk Hogan, Life
“I feel really good right now. It will really be a tough decision. It’s so hard to give up what you love doing. Hanging up the boots will not be an easy thing to do.”
Hulk Hogan, Life
“Then as I was wrestling as Terry Boulder. I was on a talk show with Lou Ferrigno, and I was actually bigger than he was! I went back to the dressing room that night and all of the wrestlers go ‘Oh my God you’re bigger than the hulk on TV’ so they started calling me Terry ‘The Hulk’ Boulder.”
Hulk Hogan, Life
“I woke up and realized life is great and people are awesome and life is worth living.”
Hulk Hogan, Life
“Be a father first. Don’t put a priority of being a friend with your wife first, or a friend with your kids first.”
Hulk Hogan, Goals, Sex, Friendship
“The best wrestlers, whether its a Hulk Hogan or a Rey Mysterio, are the ones who have psychology and can understand this business.”
Hulk Hogan, Intelligence/Wisdom
“I’m real good with math, with numbers, like my dad was. I’m pretty much dialed in.”
Hulk Hogan, Intelligence/Wisdom
“It’s amazing that even though I’ve lost everything else, I still have wrestling.”
Hulk Hogan, Wealth
“As far as my divorce goes, I love my family and I love my wife to death and I just don’t know what tomorrow’s going to bring.”
Hulk Hogan, Love, Life
“I’m the man that made wrestling famous.”
Hulk Hogan, Success
“I’ve always felt from everyone I talk to that the fans feel like I’m tangible and they can talk to me and they know me.”
Hulk Hogan, Success
“I know what happens every time I get in front of a UK crowd – they just go nuts and they are so nice and excited and crazy and they won’t sit down.”
Hulk Hogan, Success
“The fans know what’s happened to me over the past couple of years. I lost my family. I pretty much got devastated financially and the fans know that I’ve had some hard times – and that’s the nature of loyal fans. They want to see the people that they love and believe in get back on their feet.”
Hulk Hogan, Success
“I love to give the fans what they want. They’re what I miss most when I’m not wrestling. That time in the ring is like being in heaven for me.”
Hulk Hogan, Success
“People always expect Hulk Hogan to be standing up straight, or to have the bandanna on, or to not have my arms covered up. If I have an extra large shirt on people go ‘oh yeah you look small.’ It kind of ruins the mystique.”
Hulk Hogan, Success
“I’ve been around so long and no matter if I’ve done good things or bad things, or my personal life has been good or bad, the fans have always stuck with me.”
Hulk Hogan, Success
“The only time I’m not Hulk Hogan is when I’m behind closed doors because as soon as I walk out the front door, and somebody says hello to me, I can’t just say ‘hello’ like Terry. When they see me, they see the blond hair, the mustache, and the bald head, they instantly think Hulk Hogan.”
Hulk Hogan, Success
“We’re the greatest athletes in the world without a doubt.”
Hulk Hogan, Art
“Wrestling needs to be about the art form again. It needs to be about painting a picture and having a really good match.”
Hulk Hogan, Art
“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, Art
“You can have a wrestling idea, but you need to have these momentum-shifting moves. We had the Hulkamania movement, then it shifted to the beer-drinking, Stone Cold era, we reinvented the business with growing the black beard and becoming the bad guy, what’s that next level.”
Hulk Hogan, Art
“If anybody dared say wrestling was fake, you’d punch ’em. And you never used the word show. If you used the word show it was an insult.”
Hulk Hogan, Art
“I used to be a session musician before I was a wrestler. I played bass guitar. I was big pals with Lars Ulrich and he asked me if I wanted to play bass with Metallica in their early days but it didn’t work out.”
Hulk Hogan, Art
“I’d like to be the John Wayne of the ’90s. Not in terms of being the macho guy, but as a solid male leading character. Making an action-adventure comedy that kids can see with their families is a natural extension of what I did in wrestling.”
Hulk Hogan, Art
“Everybody’s out there wrestling like a robot.”
Hulk Hogan, Art
“When the script for ‘The Wrestler’ kept coming to me I said, This movie is so good if you put me in the film as a wrestler people are going to say, ‘No credibility, Hulk Hogan isn’t a good actor,’ whatever Hollywood thinks of me.”
Hulk Hogan, Art
“When you start out in the wrestling business, you make a lot of mistakes, tripping over your own feet and looking like a fool.”
Hulk Hogan, Art, Mistakes
“Whatcha gonna do, when Hulkamania runs wild on you!”
Hulk Hogan
“Well, you know somethin’, Mean Gene...”
Hulk Hogan
“When you’re nWo, you’re nWo for life.”
Hulk Hogan
“Negativity and Hulkamania – 2 things that don’t go together.”