Wit & Attitude Quote by Owen Hart

There is a quiet defiance in Owen Hart drawing a hard line between wrestling and everything orbiting it: patter, posing, “whatever the hell they do.” The profanity isn’t aggression so much as impatience with a system that rewards packaging over proof. He’s naming the business without romanticizing it. In pro wrestling, charisma and physique are often treated as the price of admission; Hart flips that hierarchy and dares you to care about the bell-to-bell.

The subtext is status anxiety, but also pride. Hart wasn’t sold as the unbeatable superhero or the microphone god. He was the technician, the guy whose credibility came from movement, timing, and making an opponent look great without making himself look small. When he says “I don’t have the big body,” he’s acknowledging the industry’s bias toward spectacle - the Vince-era preference for larger-than-life silhouettes. When he adds “I’m not the big smooth talker,” he’s conceding another gatekeeping metric: the ability to manufacture heat with language.

The intent is to stake a claim on authenticity in a medium built on performance. Hart is essentially asking for a different kind of respect: not for the character, but for the craft. It’s also a little heartbreaking in context. Coming from a beloved worker in a business that too often turns bodies into branding, the line reads like a credo from someone who wanted wrestling to mean wrestling - and knew the world might not reward him for it.