Jesse Ventura Net Worth

Jesse Ventura's Quotes

• [what he says his motto was as a wrestler (not as a politician)] Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.
• [interview in Minnesapolis Star-Tribune] You need to hunt something that can shoot back at you to really classify yourself as a hunter. You need to understand the feeling of what it's like to go into the field and know your opposition can take you out. Not just go out there and shoot Bambi.
• [on the possibility of running for US President] I'm a great believer in destiny, and if I'm destined to be there, it will happen. If I'm not, it won't.
• I think, in 2008, we need a pro wrestler in the White House.
• [on the state of religion and politics in the US as of 2008] If Jesus came back today, I think he'd throw up.

Interesting Facts about Jesse Ventura

1. Did color commentary for the Minnesota Vikings radio network
2. Former mayor of Brooklyn Park, MN. Elected Governor of the state of Minnesota on the Reform Party ticket for the 1999 to 2003 term.
3. A volunteer football coach at Park High School in Champlin, Minnesota.
4. A 1969 graduate of Roosevelt High School, Minneapolis,
5. Took the name "Ventura" from the California city of that name which, in turn, is named after San Buenaventura.
6. The about-to-merge towns of St. Augusta and Luxembourg, Minnesota, are considering naming themselves Ventura. [2000]
7. Jesse's son, Tyrel Ventura, is an aspiring film director.
8. Announces he will not run for re-election as governor of Minnesota, and will step down after current term (18 June 2002)
9. Son Tyrel Ventura (b. 1979).
10. Daughter Jade (b. 1984).
11. Last WWF appearance as a color commentator was WrestleMania VI (1990).
12. Served as color commentator alongside play-by-play broadcaster Gorilla Monsoon for the first six WrestleManias.
13. In a 1999 interview for Playboy magazine, he declared organized religion "a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers." In response to the subsequent criticism over that statement, he later clarified that he did not dislike most religious people, but criticized the views of religious fundamentalists, calling their views "weak and destructive.".
14. Is a Vietnam veteran although he did not actually see combat.
15. WWE Hall of Famer.
16. Signed on to color commentate XFL games for the one season that it existed.
17. In 1984, just before a scheduled Madison Square Garden main event with Hulk Hogan, Jesse was rushed to the hospital in San Diego with a pulmonary embolism. Treatment of the blood clot required blood thinners, any bleeding in the ring would have been dangerous. He claimed it was due to being exposed to Agent Orange in Vietnam.
18. Right around the time Hulk Hogan entered WCW, he left the company.
19. A week before he had his embolism, Bobby Heenan was scheduled to be his new manager. With Jesse out, Bobby began managing Big John Studd.
20. During the 2000 Minnesota State Fair, at the Jesse Ventura booth, T-shirts were being sold by donation that read "Got Underwear"