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I'm an opera lover.
I sweat an awful lot.
Let's face it, I'm a has-been.
We lived off the land in Italy.
What the heck did people see in me?
Franco Corelli is my favorite tenor.
Inoki is nothing but a third rater in my estimation.
I only survived because of my mother's love and care.
Professional wrestlers are human beings like anybody else.
I could never imagine myself living anywhere but Pittsburgh.
Ivan Koloff was great. I had a lot of great matches with him.
The greatest gift a man can have is to have an operatic voice.
I'm totally dedicated to training no one trains harder than I do.
I like a match that shows strength, stamina, scientific technique.
I lost a brother and a sister, and I came down with rheumatic fever.
Wrestling was my way of making a living. I did the very best I could.
I very seldom look at wrestling magazines. Whenever I do, I get angry.
If I had only Inoki to meet, I could wrestle until I was 60 years old.
I never had a gimmick. All I had was a pair of boots and a pair of tights.
I weighed 84 pounds when I was 14. I was an easy target for the other kids.
In Europe, I was just a little guy... the winters in the mountains were very nasty.
My jaw has been wired and rewired. It's incredible to think people would fake that.
We hid from the Nazis in the mountains. Sometimes there was nothing to eat but snow.
I was born in Pizzoferrato, a little village of 1000, in the Abruzzi region of Italy.
To be honored with the WWE Hall of Fame, I cannot put into words how big it is for me.
I didn't care if I was aching or hurting. I wanted to give the fans their money's worth.
I was in the business for almost a quarter of a century, and I'm very proud of my career.
I would have loved to sing opera, but I have no voice. I used to sing along with records.
I'm not bragging, but my reputation among my peers was Bruno was a horse I never got tired.
When you're in sports, you have such a limited time and then, it's all over with, finished.
My father bought a house in Panther Hollow. We were the first Italians in the neighborhood.
Professional wrestling, when you're talking money, like they say, it's the root of all evil.
I watched other boys play baseball and other games, but I was too sickly to join in the fun.
We lived in the mountains for 14 months without much food. People were dying from starvation.
Buddy Rogers and I never liked each other to be honest, however I take nothing away from him.
Anybody who sees me in person will see the worst cauliflower ears I think you have ever seen.
Besides wrestling, in my younger years, I also competed in Olympic lifting and power lifting.
Wrestling isn't looked upon like the other sports of football, baseball, basketball and hockey.
Haystacks Calhoun has never been lifted because he has never been in the ring with Bruno Sammartino.
I was never a fan of Hogan because I was never impressed with his quality of performance in the ring.
I'm so grateful to America and my hometown of Pittsburgh. I love my city. I'm proud of being from here.
I busted my nose 11 times. My fingers are all busted. My ribs. Both my arms. I can't straighten them out.
In 1959 I had broken the bench press record by lifting 565 pounds, and I could lift 715 pounds from a squat.
You look at success and thank God and the fans for the success. It's why I always feel indebted to the fans.
I knew a little bit about training and what it took to transform your body into something impressive looking.
They said Babe Ruth built Yankee Stadium and Bruno Sammartino built the Garden. It always was my favorite place.
In the old days wrestling had a certain showmanship. All those people paid their dues. They knew how to wrestle.
For my fans around the world, I am pleased to be joining the WWE Hall of Fame, especially at Madison Square Garden.
Wrestling is how I made my living and supported my family, but it's over. I don't want anything to do with it anymore.
I think people saw me as someone who was real, and not somebody subject to the criticism and ridicule given to my profession.