“I’ve mixed it up with the heavyweights. The big man/little man thing is overblown.” Wrestling’s great cruiserweight king never went in for statistics. Rey Mysterio stands 5-foot-6, yet the heart of the Lucha Libre runs fathoms deep. He flits and ...

“My mother thinks I am the best. And I am raised to believe what my mother tells me.” For 21 years, Diego Maradona made the impossible possible on the pitch. Want numbers? Maradona carried Argentina to four different World Cups. ...

“Expect the unexpected in the kingdom of madness!” Macho Man made America feel like it was cutting a promo every time an imaginary microphone appeared, and his accomplishments? Six world titles. The Intercontinental Champion for a whopping 14 months. Miss ...

“Syracuse, New York is like Hawaii for eight months of the year. The other four months, I don’t care about the weather because we’re playing basketball.” –Coach Jim Boeheim A storied institution where presidents, famous authors, revered sportscasters, and Hall ...

“I got soul and I’m super bad.” That old expression to put your “heart and soul” into what you’re doing was might as well have been founded on the Godfather of Soul himself, James Brown. When Mr. Dynamite took the ...

“Sometimes things don’t go your way, but you get up and keep going.” It was CM Punk who gave power to every acronym — CM, DIY, and all the more famous ones in organizations where he won championships. Six in ...

“We want freedom by any means necessary. We want justice by any means necessary. We want equality by any means necessary.” These words unified people at a tumultuous juncture in human history. They were a rallying cry for those without ...

“I am the cream of the crop!” Randy “Macho Man” Savage” in the house! The legend of the squared circle. The transformative star who compelled the world to flex and kiss those pythons as they do. Macho Man was all ...

“He’s the fastest thing I’ve ever seen.” –Wilbur Johns, coach of UCLA basketball team from 1939-1948, on the great Jackie Robinson Long before he changed baseball by breaking the color barrier. Long before he became a symbol of courage and ...