Quotes by Jerry Lawler

About Jerry Lawler:

Jerry O'Neil Lawler is an American semi-retired professional wrestler and color commentator. He is currently signed to WWE, where he serves as the color commentator on SmackDown, Main Event and WWE pay-per-view events. Lawler is known throughout the professional wrestling world under the ring name Jerry "The King" Lawler.
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We've finally told the world that this is sports entertainment, and I think one of the best forms of entertainment is anything that's fun or funny, something that you really enjoy watching or listening to.

Jerry Lawler

I've been here for nine years, and over that time, these people have become like my family.

Jerry Lawler

Certainly it's a business and you've got to have a salesman, but in my mind, when you've got two guys doing the same thing, you don't need one of them.

Jerry Lawler

I've seen a lot of real out-of-line attitudes since I have been in the WWF and those people are still there or are getting a second or third chance or something like that.

Jerry Lawler

We just did a show in Providence, Rhode Island, and we got three puppy shots before we even got on the air, which was great. Although sometimes you get flashed by some puppies that you'd rather not see. They're more like mongrels.

Jerry Lawler

Australia was great. I would advise anybody to go there. In fact, if you couldn't live here, Australia would be the place to live. It's the most Americanized country that I've ever seen in the world.

Jerry Lawler

It's almost like while you are working for the WWF everything is fine and good, but if you are no longer employed by them they want you to just drop off the face of the earth and it's like you never existed.

Jerry Lawler

I don't think it's blowing my own horn to say the show is not as good. There was chemistry there that took years and years to build and now that's gone. The commentary is lacking.

Jerry Lawler

In this day and time, with no competition you are really walking a tightrope. I mean you may think that no competition is good, but in reality no competition is really bad.

Jerry Lawler

Judging from what looks like the popularity of this classic wrestling show is that the people like what they have grown to know and love here in Memphis.

Jerry Lawler

When I'm in bed with a woman, my favorite move is a wrestling hold called the lip lock.

Jerry Lawler

But if I've heard this saying once, I've heard it a thousand times- everything happens for a reason. And possibly it does. I just haven't found the reason that this all happened yet.

Jerry Lawler

As they say, anything can happen in the World Wrestling Federation.

Jerry Lawler

OSHA had come in and looked at the channel 5 studios and it sort of had something to do with wrestling, but they found that there were some safety concerns that had to be addressed.

Jerry Lawler

I don't think that McMahon thinks very much about the fact that J.R and I have been successful. I don't think that McMahon thinks the wrestling announcers really have that much to contribute the show.

Jerry Lawler

I'm an artist and I can draw very well. I'm amazed that everybody can't draw well because I can do it so effortlessly.

Jerry Lawler

I don't know of any wrestler who hasn't, at one time or another, been with a fan. One time I met a woman at a match in Tennessee, and afterward we went to a little roadside motel. We checked in, went to the room, and enjoyed each other for an hour or...

Jerry Lawler

Of course, the whole Andy Kaufman angle was classic. I'm real proud of that. I mean that is something people are still talking about 20 years later, making movies about and that sort of thing. I mean not a day goes by that someone doesn't mention And...

Jerry Lawler

Author Bio

  • NameJerry Lawler
  • DescriptionAmerican professional wrestler and color commentator
  • BornNovember 29, 1949
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionProfessional Wrestler