I was three times AAU All-American World Champion and I had rough time. I was broke, no money and everything was bad for me until WWE.
— The Iron Sheik
For the boxing, Muhammad Ali and the Michael Tyson both Iron Sheik class.
Katy Perry look like Kermit the Frog.
The Iron Sheik come from Iran where I went to Olympics in Greco-Roman wrestling.
For me, America was good.
I knew I had to leave. If Iran was not good for eh-Takhti, it was not good for me.
I usually do not travel with my enemies.
Never give up or you are big time jabroni.
I make Hulk Hogan to be Hulkamania. Because I was a champion before him, I lost my belt to him.
Sheikie love the music that make me happy when I eat the kebob. I love the old generation - the Frank Sinatra, Bob Marley - he legend.
Rob Ford is a jabroni.
A lot of people think the wrestling is easy. I have bad knee... almost no walk. Look at the Jerry Lawler with his heart. We still get involve with the sport because we have the pride and the heart. Sometime we get hurt and sometime we don't.
Wrestling toughest sport. We never take day off. We never have the offseason like the hockey or the football. We work year-round, and we never complain because you fight to be with biggest company in the world and you never ask for the time to rest.
Chris Jericho know Iron Sheik the legend. He know if he get smart with me, I break his back.
Mr. McMahon is a genius, and he know how to give the people good match from first match to the last match.
Flying Squirrel remind me of Ultimate Warrior because he a little rat when he jump in ring like that idiot Jose Canseco or Mel Gibson.
My best match, draw me lot of money and make me world famous, is the boot-camp match with the Sergeant Slaughter. He was hottest thing in the wrestling, and when Iron Sheik come we make the world news.
Mr. McMahon was the first promoter in the world give me a break at World Championship. I cannot double-cross that company.
Never cut the hand that feed you, otherwise you are no-good piece of garbage.
Sheikie the legend angry they remove wrestling from the Olympics.
God bless my intelligent fans for their support.
I am open-minded guy.
The CM Punk is No. 1 in the world, bubba. He work hard. He love the wrestling business.
I love wrestling and I would do it all again. But it is a very, very hard business. There is nothing about it that is easy.
Some days I'm in a good mood and sometimes I'm bad.
I have a lot of respect for Olivia Chow because she is a real excellent lady and honoured Iron Sheik's friend.
If I see the... Hulk Hogan or the Donald Trump, I break their back - make them humble.
Bubba, in my old day I party on the road with all my friends. Now, I respect my family I respect the world and I don't do anything anymore.
Impossible for wrestler to become doctor or the mechanic. All they know is the wrestling and forever they do this job.
Mark Henry my black brother. I love him and his family.
The Brodus Clay have gimmick good for the kids and make the people happy.
The Rock now the hottest thing. He come from wrestling background. Father, mother, grandfather all from wrestling business: 2-3 generations. I watch his movie. He great movie star, and I be wrestling with his father Rocky Johnson. I love them.
Gene Mean. He come to my wedding. He always make the Sheikie Baby look No. 1 on the promo. He know the camera zoom... it make the legend the real. Forever nobody better than the Gene Mean. I love him forever.
The Ric Flair, I am his teacher from the Minnesota. We work together. He great performer, he great talker.
I was the most hated wrestler in WWE, No. 1 company in the world.
Chris Brown, he biggest jabroni. He have good name before he made a lot of money now he mess it up. What kind of man that beat the women? He no-good low life.
To represent Iran in the Olympics feel great.
Football players cannot be wrestlers. Wrestling is a much tougher sport.
I am Shia Muslim.
I am a real Iranian, and I'm in entertainment but still I was a 100 per-cent wrestler.
Being a wrestler is not an easy life. It's very hard on the body. I loved it, but it is a hard life to live.
I beat Angelo Mosca, one of the great football players - nobody beat him - I beat him at Maple Leaf Gardens. I became champion and I cannot forget Maple Leaf Gardens.
U.S.A. greatest country in world. Sheikie-baby live in the America. I live in Atlanta, the L.A. and the New York City - greatest city in the world.
World champion always say 'yes please' - never hold back when someone need humble.
I love the people to see me as gold medal, Hall of Fame, world champion that knows how to make the world news and how to come from oldest counrty in the world to be most famous Iranian in the history.
In Sheikie's day, we wrestle. We not use gimmick like the table chair.
Triple H the new Vince Kennedy McMahon. He smart to know who good for business.
Brock Lesnar from the Minnesota. He is one of the best wrestling background, like Iron Sheik and like the Kurt Angle, Dan Gable. He the real freestyle wrestling.
Ultimate Warrior? No! No! The Ultimate never a good person in the business. He never respect the people.
Dusty Rhodes play good-man gimmick. He party with me long, long time in the Florida.
