10 Ultimate Warrior Quotes We Can't Believe Are Real

WWE has spent a better part of the last decade doing its best to rehabilitate the legacy of The Ultimate Warrior. Why, is anyone’s guess that they would continue to push this guy as some sort of paragon of altruism and virtue when much of the media out there about the former Jim Hellwig shows he was anything but. Related: 10 Best Matches Of The Ultimate Warrior's Career

If you think his promos showed how much of an absolute psychopath he was in the ring, he was even worse outside of the ring! Even if you “always believe” in his side of political rhetoric, his behavior and his words are just atrocious. One can only hope, as his widow Dana had said in the past, that having conversations with his daughters truly changed him and his road to possible redemption was tragically cut short.

10 “Injection From The Gods Above”

Let it be said that Warrior was anything but at a loss for words. The WWE used to have all of their top guys fill 30 seconds to a minute of TV time trying to get fans to come to the house shows. These are where many of the inane babblings of the Warrior comes from. This promo is not only filled with the usual insane diatribe “don’t be surprised if you see me being dragged through the gravel,” but The Ultimate One also seems extra geeked up on the juice he was known for taking. He practically says as much when he mentions the power he receives intravenously.

9 Warrior’s Mania Is Contagious

It’s bad enough that Warrior was as Bobby Heenan once put it - “Captain Schitzo.” But when you put other superstars with him, they all go out there like a bunch of crazies.

On the road to the 1989 Survivor Series, Warrior is either trying to fire up his partners - The Rockers and The Anvil, or he’s trying to choke them all out with wrist tape as spends the entire promo twisting it around his team. Meanwhile, his guys are all doing their best crazy impression - not that Neidhart had to try very hard.

8 “The Power Of The Warrior Will Always Prevail”

For all of the unintentional comedy that came of The Ultimate Warrior’s promo style, at least it was unique. Holding the Intercontinental Title over his face, he bellowed “dig your claws into my organs! Scratch into my tendons! Bury your anchors into my bones!” Yes, he was actually a babyface. But play it out of context and this promo could come from a movie like Hostel and not a WWE Superstar.

7 On Heath Ledger’s Death

…And then we come to the inane babbling of the real man - the man formerly known as Jim Hellwig. Seemingly with each new blog post (which has since been redacted from the internet, but seek hard enough and ye shall find), Warrior easily showed that as crazy as he was as in the ring, he had the same amount of vitriol outside of it.

Heath Ledger who received critical acclaim for playing a homosexual character in Brokeback Mountain was gearing up to play a terrifying version of The Joker for The Dark Knight. He would die from a drug overdose shortly after he finished filming. The ever compassionate Warrior had the gaul to say Ledger had the courage to kill himself and remove himself from his daughter’s life and that Hogan wouldn’t go that far and continues to mismanage the lives of his children.

6 Wishing Bobby Heenan Got Cancer

Certainly, the ever virtuous Ultimate Warrior would never wish harm come to even his largest detractors. He would show he is stronger by turning a blind eye to the critics' comments and press forward in his own life? Perhaps you also believe there’s an underwater bridge connecting New York to London as well. Ol’ Captain Schitzo struck out against the man who coined the term, wishing that Bobby Heenan would get cancer, and said Vince couldn’t write a better story about karma catching up to him.

5 Destrucity

If L. Ron Hubbard was a wrestler, he’d have to be The Ultimate Warrior. After all, both men came up with an interesting code of ethics of which to live by. Hubbard created Dianetics and Scientology which is followed by millions worldwide. The Warrior came up with Destrucity, which was followed only by one man and understood by no one else.

According to Urban Dictionary, it is the name of the Galaxy in WARRIOR wherein the “Terrain Of Testament” lies, or as Gorilla Monsoon might have explained to the rest of society - “that will give you Excedrin headache number 45.”

4 “Queering Don’t Make The World Work”

It’s astounding that the WWE continues to honor a man who would say such a thing like “queering don’t make the world work,” whether he redeemed himself or not. Warrior didn't need to go after sexual minorities even if he's attempting to promote the procreation of humanity. The former WWE Champion delivered his homophobic speech at the University of Connecticut in April 2005. Warrior's targeting of the LGBTQ+ community was controversial even back then, but it would never fly today in such a setting.

3 On MLK Day

The Paragon Of Virtue known as The Ultimate Warrior once questioned the validity of Martin Luther King and the reverend’s quest for unity and equality. Warrior accused King of plagiarism and questioned why an adulterer was celebrated with his own day meanwhile there's no George Washington Day to celebrate the father of the USA. MLK may have plagiarized some of his collegiate writing, but his message deserves to be honored as does George Washington’s. Neither man was perfect but their messages were admirable and GW does get a day he shares with Abraham Lincoln, known as President’s Day, which to many schools across the country also signals a full week off.

2 “Should I Jump Off The Tallest Building?”

At least on TV, the Warrior’s intensity bled through the screen to create the illusion that he knew what he walking about. How did he get ready for battle? Evidently, by leaping off of the tallest building, be run over with lawnmowers, or be trampled by raging elephants?!

Related: 10 WWE Matches The Ultimate Warrior Should Have Never WonVince McMahon likened his promo style to a trance-like state where he’d speak in tongues. All of the intensity and charisma were enough to convince a generation of fans that The Ultimate Warrior was awesome.

1 “Crash The Plane”

On the road to The Ultimate Challenge, out of context, it'd appear that Warrior was a heel. He did after all cut a promo where he threatened to crash Hogan’s plane on the way to WrestleMania to see whether he or Hogan was the Chosen One, even though he is the only one…too bad neither man were near as good as their characters were.

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