Top 60 Jim Cornette Quotes

Two things I have never done and never plan to do are catch Coronavirus or meet Jelly Nutella in person.

You have to look like an athlete and you have to look like you could whip somebody. And let’s face it, unfortunately Shawn Michaels couldn’t whip anybody in a real fight as proven with every single fight he’s ever gotten into with everybody in the business.

The biggest thing I want to do is not travel as much as possible. I enjoy not traveling very much.

I think people are realizing that whereas now the ‘Ultimate Fighting Championship’ has taken over what people used to like about pro wrestling in the ’70s and ’80s. We just want to see who’s going to fight for the title.

I’m the only person in wrestling that realizes I’m too old to do this anymore, and that’s why I’m not a performer and I’m not going to be on ‘ROH.’

The fans in Lake Charles, La., were crazy. The Freebirds would get their tires cut, so they started driving to the police station and having the police bring them to the show. The fans then cut the tires on the police car that brought The Freebirds.

In the old days, talent owned their costumes, their intellectual property, their gimmicks. They were not employees and could wrestle anywhere they wanted to, and that just is not case in today’s WWE.

The NWA has money, it could have enough talent, and it has the resources of TBS. It just needs someone to give the company direction.

There’s no casual wrestling fan anymore.

Nick Aldis is a great champion. He looks like a professional athlete. He dresses like one. He carries it well.

One of the greatest matches I ever saw was Jerry Lawler against Terry Funk in the Memphis Midsouth Coliseum, but there was Flair vs. Steamboat in Nashville back in ’89.

Eddie Marlin was a big deal for a long time to a lot of people.

People naturally want to see two interesting people – one that they’re predisposed possibly to like and one that they’re predisposed to dislike – have a fight and see who wins.

John Cena’s success was the least surprising.

We would get VHS tapes from wrestlers who wanted to come to Smoky Mountain. I got this tape from a guy called Lance Storm who I saw leaping from the top rope and cutting these great dropkicks. And the kid Chris Jericho he was with wasn’t too bad either.

For the people who are offended about the fact that we have a bunch of criminals and criminal enablers and buffoons and scheisters and con men and frauds and real estate frauds running our country and our government, they like to hear that they’re not the only ones that feel that way.

If the Midnight Express were getting honored, I would be right there with it. I don’t care if Satan or Saddam Hussein is going to honor the Midnight Express, they deserve it and I’ll be up there with them.

I think tag team wrestling is every bit as exciting, if not more exciting than singles competition.

I would never commit acts of domestic or family violence, stalking or sex offenses against Vince Russo or his household members or any other kind of member that he might have hanging around. Never would I do such a thing. I swear to that.

I’ve been a fan of one particular guy since I first saw him in ‘Ring of Honor’ eight years ago. He was Tyler Black then, but he’s Seth Rollins now. And I think he’s just the whole package.

I loved Houston. Those fans would go ballistic.

When MLW first called me, they said, ‘Take a look at the product, see what you think, and see if you can make it even more edgy and more dangerous,’ and give me a live microphone and I’m going to do that.

As far as the NWA tag-team wrestling of the ’80s – and I know you’re talking some heavy hitters there – the first thing people will always say is The Midnight and Rock ‘N’ Roll Express. We invented things as we went along that people had never seen. It was always different. And it was always good.

There’s a lot of crossover between comic fans, wrestling fans and pop culture fans.

Nobody ever went and saw The Midnight Express and thought their match was bad.

A lot of people say now, ‘John Cena doesn’t work.’ Well, John Cena does the things that people go to see John Cena do, and he doesn’t take a lot of risks.

Since I left the wrestling business and got in the Jim Cornette business, my blood pressure is down considerably.

The Rock ‘n’ Roll Express and the ’80s NWA crew; Ric Flair and the Four Horsemen, Magnum TA, Dusty Rhodes – that was a great crew of talent and they were all so great to work with.

I spent the majority of my adult life in a business where the object is to make people believe that you believe what you say. I was good at that, right?

I know Vince made the call for Roman Reigns to win the Royal Rumble and be the guy. We know that much. I don’t know what knucklehead didn’t say to Vince that maybe we shouldn’t put Daniel Bryan in the Royal Rumble.

When you are as big and strong as Strowman, WWE notices you and basically pays you to go to school. He was paid to train, has a guaranteed contract, and gets paid whether he wrestles or not. He couldn’t survive in the actual wrestling business. He never had to pay his dues.

People that lie to me generally get banished or vanished to the planet Pluto in my mind.

Maybe Rock and Elizabeth Warren could team up and shore up each other’s weaknesses. Elizabeth Warren has a plan for everything and all the experience, and The Rock could sell it to the people, ’cause the people could smell what Rock is cooking.

Modern day wrestlers are fans of the performance of wrestling instead of the concept of wrestling.

Even if people that I was in love with – even if Bobby Fulton inherited a billion dollars and opened All Elite Wrestling, I was never going to be the manager of The Revival on a weekly television basis ever because that would require me being on the road on a weekly basis.

I expected women to get mad at me because I was knocking pregnancy any way shape or form even though I wasn’t against the act, just the timing. And also they said, ‘Well he’s mad because Becky Lynch is pregnant.’ No I’m not mad, once again, I’m astonished! At the timing!

You can make kids and fans happy without calling them on the court in the last three minutes of the NBA Finals.

I had always in the past thought The Ultimate Warrior was the epitome of a guy making money with no talent.

In 1986, wrestling was so huge in Charlotte that we did four events at the Coliseum with the Rock ‘N’ Roll and the Midnights in a 10-week period – and sold almost 45,000 tickets and drew almost $400,000 at the gate.

I went on a diet and went from 248 pounds to 211.

The reason why the tag teams are not main event level attractions in the WWE is because Vince McMahon doesn’t like it and doesn’t present it that way. He’d rather make individual stars.

We got shorted when it comes to recognition for the ’80s war. Everybody talks about the ‘Monday Night Wars’ and the ‘Attitude Era,’ but it was neck and neck in the ’80s.

You can make a really good one minute trailer out of a really stinky two hour movie.

From the time I was 5 years old, I collected comic books.

I loved Jimmy Snuka as a fan.

When you think that in the ’50s there was wrestling and boxing – that was it. There wasn’t mixed martial arts at all; there wasn’t even karate in the United States.

I’ve always been a fan of Bobby Roode’s.

But wrestling used to be the same as boxing or mixed martial arts. It used to be about conflict, having a fight, who’s going to win.

I had been a wrestling fan since I was nine years old.

People always say, ‘You can’t go home again,’ but every time I go to the Mid-Atlantic Wrestling Legends Fanfest in Charlotte, it feels like I have.

I’m not looking to be a superstar. That’s why I’m positioned as the face of TNA.

The Midnight Express and the Rock ‘n’ Roll Express were the greatest tag team rivalry of all time and drew more money than any other tag team rivalry probably in history, and I did manage the WWF champion and WWF Tag Team champion at different points in time but my phone hasn’t rung and I haven’t lost sleep over it.

There’s probably as many rules of thumb to wrestling as anything in the world, and then there’s just as many exceptions to every one of those rules because somebody doesn’t fit that thumb.

I met Rick Rubin through Cat Collins, a DJ friend of mine that had worked for Rubin at American Recordings.

I’m impressed with what the NWA has done, what Billy Corgan and Dave Lagana and those guys have done, establishing the NWA title to mean more and have more interest again.

Andy Kaufman and Jerry Lawler’s match was the one thing people believed most about wrestling in the last 35 years.

I had to spend eleven months in the same room with Vince Russo and Vince McMahon, that’s where I really got to hate life in general.

They way new stars were made in WCW and WWE was by beating the established guys and getting in that mix. When you only have one established guy, that’s gonna be hard.

It’s said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. In that case, the WWE ‘creative’ team must be as crazy as a rainbow trout in a car wash.

Probably the biggest-kept secret about ‘Ring of Honor’ is that when you go to see a live show – I’ve had people in their 60s from down in North Carolina that have seen a lot of wrestling tell me that it was the greatest live wrestling show they’ve ever been to. The atmosphere is off the charts.