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Hulk Hogan, born Terri Gene Bollea, is an American professional wrestler, actor, and television personality. Born on August 11, 1953, he is known for his massive physique and iconic wrestling character. Hulk Hogan was one of the most influential wrestling stars of the 1980s and 1990s, winning numerous world championship titles.

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“I told the truth - but I wasn't being honest.”

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“I'd like to be the John Wayne of the '90s. Not in terms of being the macho guy, but as a solid male leading character. Making an action-adventure comedy that kids can see with their families is a natural extension of what I did in wrestling.”

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“I've been knocked out a few times , but I have no idea how many concussions I've ever had.”

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“I'm real good with math, with numbers, like my dad was. I'm pretty much dialed in.”

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“In the ring, it's fun to be the bad guy, but 24 hours a day, when you have to talk to kids, and you see Make-A-Wish kids that love you, the bad guy stuff is not fun. I'd rather be a good guy 24 hours a day than a bad guy just for a few minutes in the ring.”

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“People are really nice in the world. The majority of every single person I meet is really nice. Some people get excited, and some people freak out when they accidentally run into me, but across the board most people are really nice, so I just like to treat people how they treat me.”

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“When you start out in the wrestling business, you make a lot of mistakes, tripping over your own feet and looking like a fool.”

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“Wrestling needs to be about the art form again. It needs to be about painting a picture and having a really good match.”

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“To all my little Hulkamaniacs, say your prayers, take your vitamins and you will never go wrong.”

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“I woke up and realized life is great and people are awesome and life is worth living.”

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“It's tough because a lot of my friends in normal life, a lot of my friends in the entertainment business, and a lot of my friends in the wrestling business are gay. Just to say something spiteful and hurtful, I don't get it... if it was true and I was gay, I'd embrace it, and I'd tell you guys about it and I'd celebrate it.”

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“I train all the time and the weird thing is I'm in the gym with people between 20 and 25 years old and I look in the mirror and I look better than they do and they are young kids - either they haven't trained hard enough or they aren't serious enough.”

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“I fear no man, no beast or evil, brother.”

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“Negativity and Hulkamania - 2 things that don't go together.”

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“I promised each and every Hulkamaniac when I went to that great battlefield in the sky I would bring the WWF title with me.”

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“I totally understand OJ. I get it.”

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“If anybody dared say wrestling was fake, you'd punch 'em. And you never used the word show. If you used the word show it was an insult.”

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“I feel really good right now. It will really be a tough decision. It's so hard to give up what you love doing. Hanging up the boots will not be an easy thing to do.”

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“I've been around so long and no matter if I've done good things or bad things, or my personal life has been good or bad, the fans have always stuck with me.”

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“The only time I'm not Hulk Hogan is when I'm behind closed doors because as soon as I walk out the front door, and somebody says hello to me, I can't just say 'hello' like Terry. When they see me, they see the blond hair, the mustache, and the bald head, they instantly think Hulk Hogan.”

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“As far as my divorce goes, I love my family and I love my wife to death and I just don't know what tomorrow's going to bring.”

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“Be a father first. Don't put a priority of being a friend with your wife first, or a friend with your kids first.”

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“A lot of people didn't realize that with the carpet being pulled out from under me in such a short time frame I got to such a bad place.”

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“After watching wrestling for 20 years, I thought I had enough confidence to do it. There were no wrestling schools at the time.”

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“Everybody's out there wrestling like a robot.”

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“Hopefully I can become the Babe Ruth of the World Wrestling Federation and be the champion at the same time.”

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“I know what happens every time I get in front of a UK crowd - they just go nuts and they are so nice and excited and crazy and they won't sit down.”

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“I love to give the fans what they want. They're what I miss most when I'm not wrestling. That time in the ring is like being in heaven for me.”

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“I'm real critical of myself and if I take the bandana off my head I'm completely bald headed and go from being 58 to looking 68 instantly.”

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“I'm the man that made wrestling famous.”

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“I've always felt from everyone I talk to that the fans feel like I'm tangible and they can talk to me and they know me.”

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“If I have a problem with someone I talk about them. I don't pick on their kids.”

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“If I do hit that rope and do a hop, skip and a jump and get up as high as I can, I'm just going to hold my breath, because I know i'm going to hear all kinds of scar tissue popping.”

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“I hate to toot my own horn but I just feel that I know people and I know fans and I don't feel there is that Angelina Jolie/Brad Pitt barrier with me. I've always felt from everyone I talk to that the fans feel like I'm tangible and they can talk to me and they know me.”

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“I'm 58 years old and I just went through 8 back surgeries. They started cutting on me in February 2009, and I was basically bed ridden for almost two years. I got a real dose of reality that if you don't have your health, you don't have anything.”

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“People always expect Hulk Hogan to be standing up straight, or to have the bandanna on, or to not have my arms covered up. If I have an extra large shirt on people go 'oh yeah you look small.' It kind of ruins the mystique.”

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“Right before Pamela Anderson met Tommy Lee I got this crazy script to do this incredible movie with her where I play this cop with a young partner like Brad Pitt who is in love with Pamela Anderson and he gets killed in the line of duty and she falls in love with me and it gets really crazy. I turned that down.”

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“The coolest thing, and I have it at home, is a huge Hulk Hogan, normal-sized pinball machine. When people come over they play it for hours. When you hit the bumpers and the bells ring it goes, 'Oh yeah!' The whole time you're playing this machine it's yelling and screaming at you, 'What you gonna do, brother?!' I think that's the coolest.”

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“Then as I was wrestling as Terry Boulder. I was on a talk show with Lou Ferrigno, and I was actually bigger than he was! I went back to the dressing room that night and all of the wrestlers go 'Oh my God you're bigger than the hulk on TV' so they started calling me Terry 'The Hulk' Boulder.”

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“There's a lot of gimmick infringement out there, but that's cool. It's a compliment. But it all started right when I first came into the Garden. I came down to Eye of the Tiger and when I hit the ring with the Sheik, I just put my hand up to my ear by accident, and the crowd got louder. I was like "Oh, that works."”

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“When the script for 'The Wrestler' kept coming to me I said, This movie is so good if you put me in the film as a wrestler people are going to say, 'No credibility, Hulk Hogan isn't a good actor,' whatever Hollywood thinks of me.”

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“You can have a wrestling idea, but you need to have these momentum-shifting moves. We had the Hulkamania movement, then it shifted to the beer-drinking, Stone Cold era, we reinvented the business with growing the black beard and becoming the bad guy, what's that next level.”

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“We're the greatest athletes in the world without a doubt.”

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“It's amazing that even though I've lost everything else, I still have wrestling.”

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“Whatcha gunna do when Hulkamanina and my 24 pythons run wild on you?!?!?!!?”

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“Train. Say your prayers. Eat your vitamins.”

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“Whatcha gonna do, when Hulkamania runs wild on you!”

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“When you're nWo, you're nWo for life.”

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“The best wrestlers, whether its a Hulk Hogan or a Rey Mysterio, are the ones who have psychology and can understand this business.”

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Born: August 11, 1953
Known for: Professional Wrestler
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