Quotes from Jeff Hardy

My first match was against Razor Ramon. I lost. Come to think about it, I lost a lot back in those days.

Edge is such a great guy.

The Great Khali always serves up a good beatdown if you can't get out from under that heavy hand.

I would love to end my career as World Champion.

When I broke my leg on the dirt bike, fear got the best of me that day. I hesitated. I didn't hit it as fast as I could have, and I came up short. It was the first time in my life I couldn't get back up.

I've rung my bells so many times, especially back in the day when chair shots to the head were legal. My goodness, I took so many of those.

I was able to complete a motocross track at my house, and that's something I've always enjoyed. That time away is really what developed the passion I needed to come back and compete.

I paint all the time. Each night I wrestle, I paint my face because I am an artist. It's kind of all coming together where I am able to do everything I really love to do and need in my life.

I can't wrestle a match without getting my ankles taped because they feel like they'll shatter on me.

I remember 'Wrestlemania 6' with The Ultimate Warrior against Hulk Hogan. It was so cool to see those guys go in there and the fans getting into the match so much.

Ric Flair, The Freebirds, and The Rockers were great influences in my decision to become a wrestler.

To me, wrestling is just as cool as it ever was.

I started wrestling professionally, I did my first television match at 16, but I was wrestling at country fairs and national armories when I was 14.

When I was a kid, I wrestled my high school amateur wrestling in junior year.

Early, when I first started wrestling, I wanted to be a combination of Sting and the Ultimate Warrior: The Ultimate Warrior's craziness and weird personality and Sting's coolness and the way he carried himself to the ring. But then later on, when it came to physicality and athleticism, Shawn Michaels topped the cake.

I'm good at professional wrestling, and I always will be good, but what's always been different about me is that I can't completely focus on professional wrestling.

I was obsessed with it, and then I learned more about professional wrestling and how the beauty that does exist in it is truly an art form.

I'll do anything. That has proven problematic - you may remember my broken leg in a dirt bike accident - but that is also the ingredient that has allowed me to elevate myself in pro wrestling.

Sting was one of my first and biggest influences. One night in North Carolina, when I reached out and touched his shoulder, he had the face paint on, and I didn't know why, but I loved it. I wanted to be just like him, and I was only 11 years old.

TNA is great about going out of their way to interact with the fans.

For special wrestlers, there's somewhere else to go - as long as you're not brainwashed by that WWE mentality. There's other worlds out there; it's OK to switch around.

When you commit to a WWE contract, you're committing to some serious time away from home.

I don't want to go back to WWE and burn out within four or five months, and having another run as TNA world champion would feel just as good.

When I wrestled Randy Orton, that was probably the biggest match of my career at that point, because that was when I had the other shot at the WWE championship.