Diamond Dallas Page Quotes:- Diamond Dallas Page (born April 5, 1956), better known by his ring name Diamond Dallas Page (DDP), is an American semi-retired professional wrestler, fitness instructor, motivational speaker, and actor.
Inspirational Diamond Dallas Page Quotes
I had some great matches with ‘Macho Man,’ but the one at Halloween Havoc in 1997 was intense, and Havoc was the perfect venue for a Last Man Standing Match.
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All the competitors knew the importance of Halloween Havoc. It was the WCW equivalent to SummerSlam.
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I challenge anyone to find a better match than me and Goldberg at Havoc ’98. There are few matches that were as physical, exhausting, and psychological as that one.
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Without Dusty Rhodes, there is no Diamond Dallas Page. He took me under his wing and believed in me when nobody did – nobody.
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Wrestling and horror just sort of go together.
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If you teach someone your craft, while you’re teaching them, you’re going to learn because you’re going to get better at teaching, which is going to make you better at whatever you’re doing.
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I always saw myself working a WrestleMania.
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The run that I had – which really was, like, four months in the WWE – it wasn’t great. But my opening day was great. My opening day was humongous. And then WrestleMania was pretty much my closing card. I did one ‘Raw’ after that, but that WrestleMania 18 match that I had with Christian, that was a hell of a match.
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Famous Diamond Dallas Page Quotes
I started wrestling when I was 35, but my career didn’t take off until I was 40.
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When my career took off like a rocket in ’97 – me against the nWo and Randy Savage – I wasn’t just a top guy, I was the top guy, and then in ’98, I blew my back out.
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I’m all about owning your life.
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When you look at me in the beginning of ’96 and at the end of ’96, I’m two different people.
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I didn’t develop DDP YOGA for yogis. DDP YOGA is its own animal; if yoga was a bicycle, DDP YOGA would be a Harley.
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I’m not going to have anyone tell me what I can do promoting my product.
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Originally, when I was introduced to yoga, I kept resisting. I kept saying that I wouldn’t be caught dead doing yoga.
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When I blew my back out at age 42, I said, ‘Okay, I’ve got to be more concerned about food and health.’
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Bottom line is don’t ever be afraid to fail.
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I live by the business model that there is a better than, a less than, or a different than. Those are the three categories. I chose to be different than. The one that’s different than will stand out with the proper work ethic.
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Greatest Diamond Dallas Page Quotes
Everybody on top has a ton of haters.
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I can’t tell you how many times I hit that mat, especially that first year, where I said to myself, ‘Man, this fake stuff hurts like hell. Do I really want to do this?’ And every time, I would come back, ‘Yeah, I wanna do this.’
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How could I not be the underdog, starting at 35 and a half and going from a manager and a fourth-string color commentator to being a wrestler?
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I was sort of like a scout for Eric Bischoff if I saw people who had the talent. Sometimes I wouldn’t bring people to him until they had the gimmick, like Raven.
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I don’t think there is anybody, including Jeff Hardy, who puts their body through as much abuse as A. J. Styles.
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People don’t understand that, when I was at WCW, if I wasn’t wrestling that night, I was down at the Power Plant teaching. I was teaching people how to do stuff, but every time you teach someone, you learn more. The more you learn, the more you teach. The more you teach, the better you get.
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One of my biggest supporters is Gerry Briscoe.
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No one iced their body in professional wrestling before me. I did it because I was 35, 36, 37. I was already what would have been considered an old timer.
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Famous Quotes by Diamond Dallas Page
I stretched my whole career – it didn’t save me when I blew my back, and of course, that’s where the whole things of DDP Yoga comes from.
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I would have always liked to have worked with Randy Orton because of the Diamond Cutter and the RKO.
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Nobody can pull you down more than you.
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I used to run a night club in Fort Myers, Florida called Norma Jean’s Dance Club. That was the hottest spot from Sarasota to Cuba.
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Wrestling is cyclical. And if you look at the ’80s, it had an unbelievable run, and then it just fell down. ’90s had the biggest run ever because of the Monday Night Wars.
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Some of my biggest victories have come directly after some of my biggest failures.
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Vince McMahon made me a much better businessman, and I’m super thankful to him.
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My business wouldn’t be doing as strong as it is without the support of WWE.
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DDP Yoga was never developed for yoga users: it was developed for people who wouldn’t be caught dead doing yoga – the people who really need it.
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Beautiful Diamond Dallas Page Quotes
Yoga is ‘so hum,’ spiritual and all that, and I get it, and I respect that, but that’s not what I do. What I do with DDP Yoga, we have changed the face of how it’s represented. The spiritual stuff for us is about the power of positivity along with giving people that inner confidence.
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The biggest thing I’ve learned, on the inside of my Hall of Fame ring, normally people put their name. I’ve put ‘Work ethic equals results! DDP.’
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I don’t think I’ll ever be out of wrestling, because I was that kid at 8 years old that dreamed of being a world champion.
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When Dusty Rhodes passed away, that hit me hard because I couldn’t call him any more. He couldn’t bust my chops. He made a huge difference in my life on so many levels.
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I will greet every person who comes to my workshops and seminars.
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I live for inspiring people to do things they think they can’t. My goal is to completely eliminate the word ‘can’t’ from the equation.
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In my mind, I always felt like I was worthy. I really felt like, with my career and just the way I did it, it was Hall of Fame-worthy.
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I wrote a book called ‘Yoga for Regular Guys.’ We made the title of the book funny, but it was actually super serious. We were trying to get regular guys to do yoga. It just kept developing from there, and the concept eventually turned into DDP YOGA. I am so passionate about it.
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Top Diamond Dallas Page Quotes
You can sit in the chair and do the workout. There’s no other program in the world that is like DDP YOGA.
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You rarely see me without a DDP YOGA shirt on. There are times where I wear a regular shirt when I do an interview, and in the middle of it, I go, ‘Wait a second. Let me change my shirt.’
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When you become a wrestler at 35 and your career takes off at 40, nobody believes in you. But there are some people out there who watch how I did it, and I did it through intense work ethic.
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I always believed I would be in the Hall of Fame when my career came to an end. I just didn’t know when.
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If you say ‘I can’t,’ you’d better add on ‘yet.’ Once you start to change that inner dialogue, things that would seem completely impossible become possible.
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