40 Quotes by Hulk Hogan

Hulk Hogan, a professional wrestler and iconic celebrity, has left an indelible imprint on popular culture. With his charismatic personality and larger-than-life persona, he became one of the most recognizable figures in the world of professional wrestling. Hogan's contributions extended beyond the ring, as he was instrumental in propelling the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) into mainstream popularity during the 1980s. He embodied the concept of the hero in the wrestling world, captivating audiences with his dramatic matches and memorable catchphrases. Hogan's influence on wrestling and his transition into mainstream media solidified his status as a cultural phenomenon, and his legacy continues to reverberate through the entertainment industry and the hearts of fans worldwide.

Hulk Hogan Quotes


To all my little Hulkamaniacs, say your prayers, take your vitamins and you will never go wrong.

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Whatcha gonna do, when Hulkamania runs wild on you!

Train. Say your prayers. Eat your vitamins.

I woke up and realized life is great and people are awesome and life is worth living.

I hate to toot my own horn but I just feel that I know people and I know fans and I don't feel there is that Angelina Jolie/Brad Pitt barrier with me. 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.

Right before Pamela Anderson met Tommy Lee I got this crazy script to do this incredible movie with her where I play this cop with a young partner like Brad Pitt who is in love with Pamela Anderson and he gets killed in the line of duty and she falls in love with me and it gets really crazy. I turned that down.

I fear no man, no beast or evil, brother.

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.

Negativity and Hulkamania - 2 things that don't go together.

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.

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I've been knocked out a few times , but I have no idea how many concussions I've ever had.

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.

I totally understand OJ. I get it.

It's amazing that even though I've lost everything else, I still have wrestling.

When you're with the nWo, when you're with Hollywood, you're just...too...sweet!

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.

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.

Everybody's out there wrestling like a robot.

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.

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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.

I'm real good with math, with numbers, like my dad was. I'm pretty much dialed in.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I'm the man that made wrestling famous.

Hopefully I can become the Babe Ruth of the World Wrestling Federation and be the champion at the same time.

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.

Be a father first. Don't put a priority of being a friend with your wife first, or a friend with your kids first.

Wrestling needs to be about the art form again. It needs to be about painting a picture and having a really good match.

When you're nWo, you're nWo for 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.

We're probably the opposite of the Osbournes. We run a very tight ship.

The coolest thing, and I have it at home, is a huge Hulk Hogan, normal-sized pinball machine. When people come over they play it for hours. When you hit the bumpers and the bells ring it goes, 'Oh yeah!' The whole time you're playing this machine it's yelling and screaming at you, 'What you gonna do, brother?!' I think that's the coolest.

We're the greatest athletes in the world without a doubt.

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.

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.

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.

After watching wrestling for 20 years, I thought I had enough confidence to do it. There were no wrestling schools at the time.

When you start out in the wrestling business, you make a lot of mistakes, tripping over your own feet and looking like a fool.

There's a lot of gimmick infringement out there, but that's cool. It's a compliment. But it all started right when I first came into the Garden. I came down to Eye of the Tiger and when I hit the ring with the Sheik, I just put my hand up to my ear by accident, and the crowd got louder. I was like "Oh, that works."

You can have a wrestling idea, but you need to have these momentum-shifting moves.

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.

If I have a problem with someone I talk about them. I don't pick on their kids.

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.

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 Quotes

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