To me, wrestling is therapy. No matter how bad my personal situation is, when I step into the ring, all my troubles disappear. My baggage stays in the back where it belongs.
Interpretation
Wrestling provides a therapeutic escape from personal problems.
In this quote, Eddie Guerrero expresses how wrestling acts as a form of therapy for him, allowing him to temporarily forget his personal troubles when he is in the ring. The act of wrestling serves as a powerful distraction and a means of coping, illustrating the significance of physical activity and passion in overcoming life's challenges.
In practice
In a motivational speech about finding passion in your work.
The twenty minutes or more we spend inside the ring, that's the fun part. It's the rest of our lives that's the real battle - the ruthless backstage politics, the constant traveling, the endless mental and physical aches and pains.
There is one good thing about reaching the bottom. When you get there, there's nothing left to do but fight your way back up or die.
We just were saying no more police brutality. And we had enough of police harassment in the Village and other places.
Fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.
A crystalline moment shatters, and the world is a different place. Where there was confinement, now there is release. Recoiling from my sudden liberation, my left arm flings downcanyon, opening my shoulders to the south, and I fall back against the northern wall of the canyon, my mind is surfing on euphoria. As I stare at the wall where not twelve hours ago I etched “RIP OCT 75 ARON APR 03,” a voice shouts in my head: I AM FREE!
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
I have a thick skin, which comes from being a not-really-skinny, dark-skinned Indian woman. I haven’t fit in every place, and so I’m kind of used to resistance.
Like, with one arm I know I can surf, but competitive surfing can be really frustrating, and sometimes you don't do as well as you want to. It can be discouraging at times. But whenever I do get frustrated, I just focus on God.
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