Quotes by Mark Henry - Page 2

I want to go out in dramatic fashion. Win, lose, or draw, I want to have a retirement match, and a lot of guys have done it.
Mark Henry /
Dramatic
Retirement
Draw
Match
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I enjoyed my time working with Mae Young; she was one of the coolest, most respected people that I ever met in the industry.
Mark Henry /
Enjoyed
My Time
Time People Young
Coolest
Met
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I like to play around a lot. I would always flirt with the girls in the office and everybody just hanging around, sweet talk.
Mark Henry /
Office
Flirt
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I've had matches go 38 minutes. To be able to move for 38 minutes and have somebody's life in your hands is a difficult thing.
Mark Henry /
Life Your Difficult
Difficult Thing
Matches
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I'm more on the bigger side, so people don't think I have speed. I'm not the fastest guy, but I guarantee I'm not the slowest.
Mark Henry /
Bigger
Guy
Speed
Side
Fastest
Guarantee
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Black culture - we dance and sing. We're entertainers. James Brown said it best: the things we are make people want to be like us.
Mark Henry /
Entertainers
James
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Wrestling isn't like ballet; it's not about practicing a routine. You need to focus. You need to concentrate. You need to know your craft.
Mark Henry /
Ballet
Routine
Craft
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Wrestling went from being sometimes comical to very serious, and there was a lot of depth regarding the vastness in which people performed.
Mark Henry /
Depth
Vastness
Regarding
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At one point, I remember throwing Jerry Lawler so hard that he didn't touch either rope. He just went straight through and hit the barricade.
Mark Henry /
Jerry
Rope
Throwing
Touch
Hit
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I was the first WWE developmental talent. When I moved to Connecticut to start training, I had no idea what wrestling was other than what I saw as a fan.
Mark Henry /
Connecticut
Developmental
No Idea
Wwe
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Nobody will ever top Owen Hart. Owen was like a brother to me. I loved him so much because he made me laugh harder than anyone's made me laugh in my life.
Mark Henry /
Hart
Life Me My Life
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Originally, nobody knew John Cena rapped. It was just something he did in the car. I told Bruce Prichard, and that's how the whole 'Thugonomics' run began.
Mark Henry /
Car
Nobody
Began
Bruce
Run
John
Just Something
Originally
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When my mother bought me my first concrete weight set when I was 10, I was hooked. I was doing stuff with the weights that a kid shouldn't have been doing.
Mark Henry /
Concrete
Hooked
Me Doing Mother
Weights
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I was called everything ugly and black in the world. Man, those where some tough times. They called me Fat Albert, Magilla Gorilla, black ape. It all hurt.
Mark Henry /
Black
Hurt
Tough
Tough Times
Ugly
Man World Me
Fat
Albert
Ape
Those
Man World Black
Times
Gorilla
Some
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Around 2015, I started to see my skills diminish. It happens to everybody. Father Time is undefeated. He is gonna win every time, and I saw him catching me.
Mark Henry /
Catching
Diminish
Father Time
Undefeated
Time Me Father
Time Happens Me
Time Father Me
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I didn't know my own strength. I wasn't a bully or anything, but I'd be out playing and end up hurting someone. So I had to sit out or play with older kids.
Mark Henry /
Bully
My Own
Older
Hurting
Sit
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I grew up learning from guys like Ron Simmons and Owen Hart. They were like mentors to me, so I was able to embrace what they taught me, and I think I did alright.
Mark Henry /
Alright
Embrace
Hart
Mentors
Ron
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I will be the most marketable of anybody to come through weightlifting ever. With my personality and my size, I mean, I can make people buy things, try what I say.
Mark Henry /
Size
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To know that you will be in the International Sports Hall of Fame and that people for hundreds of years will know who you are and what you did, it means everything.
Mark Henry /
Sports
Fame
International
People Will Know
Did
Hall
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Years
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I don't want to be the second-strongest man in the United States or the second-strongest man in the world. They don't get much attention. I definitely want to be No. 1.
Mark Henry /
Much Attention
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If you're going to lose to somebody, losing to a guy like Brock Lesnar is not something that people will laugh at. Brock is arguably one of the top ten fighters on Earth.
Mark Henry /
Lose People Will
Arguably
Fighters
Top Ten
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There's a lot to being a weightlifter. People think it's all brute strength. But it takes strength, quickness, flexibility, and technique. And it can cause a lot of stress.
Mark Henry /
Flexibility
Quickness
Technique
Brute
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You can't be a champion and look like a bum. You have to look, and be, the part. It's not just because it's required of your job, but is important to how you hold yourself.
Mark Henry /
Bum
Required
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I love fashion. Actually, funny story, I used to give the 'Esquire Big Black Book' to young wrestlers when they would join the WWE, because they needed to know how to dress.
Mark Henry /
Funny Story
Wwe
Esquire
Join
Wrestlers
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I have a good sense of humor. I'm not Martin Lawrence by any means. I'm a little too country to be Chris Rock. But I fancy myself as being somebody with a good sense of humor.
Mark Henry /
Humor
Country
Fancy
Good Sense
Sense Of Humor
Chris
Chris Rock
Lawrence
Martin
Rock
Sense
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I love the WWE, I love the company, but I have two kids, and they want me home. They want me to see their recitals and sporting events, and I want to see them grow and evolve.
Mark Henry /
Evolve
Wwe
Love Home Me
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Daniel Bryan is one of my favorite wrestlers - as a talent, as an entertainer, the way our fans love and revere him. There's never been a match he and I have been in where it was bad.
Mark Henry /
Bryan
Fans
Talent
Favorite
Daniel
Match
Revere
Wrestlers
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I want people, when they remember me, to think of the Hall of Pain, when I was catching guys, 275 pounds. Picking up Big Show, close to 500 pounds, over my head and driving him through a table.
Mark Henry /
Catching
Driving
Pain
Pounds
Remember Me
Me Remember People
Close
Hall
Picking
Table
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Ribbing is a part of wrestling. That's the way they show a fondness for you - they play practical jokes on you. They put your wrestling gear in plastic bags and throw it in the shower. Just stupid stuff.
Mark Henry /
Bags
Fondness
Plastic
Gear
Practical
Shower
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Being 19 years old and making the Olympic team on my last lift. I went 6-for-6 and had a perfect Olympic trial. Making the team and being one of the youngest to ever go to the Olympics was pretty special.
Mark Henry /
Lift
Olympic
Trial
Youngest
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I was a big kid my whole life. I grew up among big people. My brother was a big kid. I didn't really feel like a big kid. Except for the teachers, who pretty much didn't want me to squish any of the other kids.
Mark Henry /
Life Me People
Other Kids
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At one point in my life, I thought getting old was a bad thing. Then I realized that the prestige, the respect, and the honor that people hold you at for being able to do anything for 20 years is well worth it.
Mark Henry /
Respect
Able
Getting Old
Honor
Prestige
Worth It
Life Respect My Life
Bad
Bad Thing
Old
Getting
Hold
My Life
Point
Realized
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Randy Orton is one of the people in the industry I respect the most. Not many people can be as smooth and polished in the ring as Randy is, and still be over with the fans, and he is one of the very best in the industry.
Mark Henry /
Polished
Randy
Smooth
Ring
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I've had five surgeries that could have ended most people's careers. But because of the fact that I'm resilient and have a lot of pride, I refused to let myself go out except on my terms. An injury is not going to take me out.
Mark Henry /
Careers
Resilient
Myself Me People
Myself Pride Me
Refused
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I understand marketing. I understand licensing. I understand the business side of our business. That comes from paying attention and wanting to do better, not just as an in-ring performer but as someone who loves the industry.
Mark Henry /
Licensing
Marketing
Business Side
Loves
Paying
Performer
Wanting
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People think our business is this completely fictional world of big guys in tight clothes with no brains. That's not the way it is; this is a psychology-driven business. You have to take people on an emotional ride without using words.
Mark Henry /
Big Guys
Brains
Fictional
Ride
Tight
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I believe in freedom of speech. I believe people have the right to say whatever they want to say. As long as they're ready to own what they say. Because there's a price to pay when you say something that's against the grain that is not correct.
Mark Henry /
Freedom
Freedom Of Speech
Grain
Long
Pay
Ready
Speech
Freedom Believe Freedom Of Speech
Against
Freedom Believe I Believe
Own
Correct
Whatever
Say
Price
Right
They Say
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I was an unusually big kid for my age and did not know how to express myself after being targeted as the odd one out. I thus landed myself in trouble for reacting aggressively. But with time, I succeeded as an athlete and people started respecting me.
Mark Henry /
Athlete
Odd
Reacting
Time Age Myself
Landed
Express
Respecting
Succeeded
Targeted
Thus
Unusually
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I never in my career did appearances, like where you go and sign autographs, and you do the comic-cons and all of that stuff, because I wanted, when I stopped wrestling, to go and do that stuff and have it really mean something to somebody, that it hadn't been watered down.
Mark Henry /
Autographs
Appearances
Never Down Go
Watered
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I had vied for a championship; I had been involved in being a No. 1 contender, and having runs where I got close but I never got there. Being able to finally get there and be the guy to carry the load and carry it for a while, I felt like I arrived, and it validated my career.
Mark Henry /
Championship
Involved
Load
Carry
Contender
Finally
Runs
Validated
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Oh my God, if you're talking terrible theme songs, you have to mention Matt Hardy. I can't understand what they're even saying. There's a point in Matt Hardy's song where it sounds like they say 'I want to meet the cheese.' I'm always like, 'Meet the cheese?' Just goofy stuff.
Mark Henry /
Cheese
Goofy
Hardy
Terrible
Theme
Matt
Meet
Mention
Oh My God
Sounds
They Say
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Back in the old days, guys used to wreck hotel rooms and trash rental cars and all that dumb stuff. When I came into wrestling, they were like, 'We're out of cars. You're one of those wrestlers. No, we're not renting a car to you.' It was like that. We had to re-create, re-establish the trust.
Mark Henry /
Dumb
Hotel
Hotel Rooms
Old Days
Rooms
Trash
Renting
Wreck
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I remember being in a situation where everybody, as much as they loved seeing Jerry Lawler's gimmick, they loved to hate him. That's one of the things I learned early on, that if you're going to be in a situation where you're taking on a dominant competitor, you have to get to the point where you love to be hated, if that is what is required.
Mark Henry /
Gimmick
Required
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