Diamond Dallas Page Quotes

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Diamond Dallas Page

Profession : Wrestler

Birth : April 5, 1956

One of my favorite things to do when I wasn't competing was to watch the cruiserweights.

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If WCW and Eric Bischoff hadn't brought in the cruiserweights, I don't think the company would have ever gotten to where it was.

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All the competitors knew the importance of Halloween Havoc. It was the WCW equivalent to SummerSlam.

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The elaborate sets and the theme of Halloween Havoc as a whole is what I think really caught the attention of the fans. Add in the explosive contests we had every year at the event, and it was definitely the perfect precursor to Starrcade.

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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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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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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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That diamond cutter sign became my moniker.

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From wrestling, I learned what I'm not going to do again.

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I let the WWE control my destiny, and it didn't work out so well.

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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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