Paul Orndorff Quotes

God made me to be a sports player. He didn’t make me to be a professor or any of that other crap.

When they hated me, it was hell. I used to fight the crowd before I even started my matches. It was crazy.

I used my body, and Roddy used a lot of his brains.

The fans can either hate you or like you, and they either hated me or liked me, but they always remembered me. I’m very proud of that.

I like contact sports like football. I like collisions, and I was good at it.

In wrestling, if there is a legend, Roddy Piper is a legend, no doubt about it. Nobody was ever like he was.

I could have been Mr. America if I wanted to be, but I chose wrestling. I could have played pro-football, but I chose wrestling.

Nobody was ever better than Roddy Piper was when it came to interviews. He didn’t pull no punches. He wasn’t afraid of nothin‘ or nobody. He was a trip, and he was good people, too. He was a good friend. A damn good friend.

I am not bragging – it may sound like it – but there was nobody in this business that had the aggression and had the body that I had – nobody!

Bret Hart was a nobody from Canada, and Hogan was the greatest star in wrestling.

I believed in making it look real. I was probably hard to work with because I wanted it to make real, and I knew how to wrestle.

I worked every night, and I’d go 25, 35, 45 minutes, and that is what made me, and that is that I knew how to work, and I knew how to work the people.

I don’t care much for Canadians.

Holy cow, she was tough as nails, man. When I was starting, Moolah was the head woman. She could kick 90 percent of the guys‘ butts.

Tito Santana was one of the hardest working guys in the business. When Tito used to make that comeback, the people went crazy because he had so much fire. He had so much damn energy. He could just go and go and go.

When Terry Funk, Harley Race had world titles, it meant more.

I like being a bad guy.

Roddy actually was in the business longer then I was and started sooner than I did, and Roddy was a smart guy.

You have to realize in this life and in your life that timing is everything.

I can go any style – hook up, lock up, take you down – and do all kinds of amateur moves.

I went to the gym six days a week, three hours a day, and it was part – and it was my life.

I was drafted by the New Orleans Saints, and quite frankly, I got worn out playing football. I got tired of it. With wrestling, there were so many variables that could go with it, so many directions you could go. Every night, it was different. Every night. It was a different town 7 nights a week and twice on Sunday.