Wrestler

Anytime that people feel that you accomplished enough to enter into a Hall of Fame, of course this is a tremendous, tremendous thrill for me.

Inoki is nothing but a third rater in my estimation.

I could never imagine myself living anywhere but Pittsburgh.

Besides wrestling, in my younger years, I also competed in Olympic lifting and power lifting.

I work out about three hours a day, four days a week to keep in shape.

I was born in Pizzoferrato, a little village of 1000, in the Abruzzi region of Italy.

Ivan Koloff was great. I had a lot of great matches with him.

After I retired, I spent a quarter of a century in the business, and when I retired and a new regime took over, Vince McMahon Jr. and that, and in the beginning I went back to help out. I color commentated with him, but then I started to see things that were disturbing to me.

I very seldom look at wrestling magazines. Whenever I do, I get angry.

I never wrestled for the money or the fame. I just wanted to be able to take care of my family. I wanted to be able to educate my children. I wanted them to have it better than I did.

In every city, I had my favorite place. In Baltimore, it was Sabatino's.

They call me 'The Maniac' as far as training goes. I'm a fanatic. I run 10 miles every day and I train three hours every other day with barbells. Nobody trains that hard. And that's not bragging.

The only thing I like about doing autograph shows is that the people who used to be fans are so wonderful. They'll come over and give such wonderful compliments.

There's nothing like wrestling in front of people you know.

In Argentina, in Brazil, I remember going to Australia, all the trips I did in Japan, you know how they'd advertise me? 'From Madison Square Garden, Bruno Sammartino.'

I was never going to do anything that would have brought shame to my family. I owed too much, and I wanted them to be proud to say that they were Bruno Sammartino's mother and father.

Haystacks Calhoun has never been lifted because he has never been in the ring with Bruno Sammartino.

When you're in sports, you have such a limited time and then, it's all over with, finished.

I'm totally dedicated to training no one trains harder than I do.

I think guys like Cena work very hard.