Quotes from Dean Ambrose

The calmest part of my day is right before a match.

In a situation like the Rumble, I'm looking around constantly and keeping my back against a rope as much as possible so I can see what's going on.

I was pretty happy with what we were able to do on 'SmackDown.' It was one of the best, most fun runs of my career because it was essentially a new show.

Brock Lesnar likes to get his rest time, you know what I'm saying?

I love adrenaline. I like senseless violence.

No one really has any idea about me. To me, what I give you is what happens onscreen, and past that, anything you're coming up with in your own head, you're creating in your own mind.

I don't really try to pattern myself after any particular person. I pretty much make it up as I go along.

As far as social media and all that, I understand connecting with fans on a different level, but I don't feel the need to open myself up to the opinion of everybody in the world with a phone or computer. I just don't get that, being connected to everybody on such a superficial level like that. It's not really for me.

I've always fed off negativity and wanting people to hate me. That attitude really fueled me for my entire career. So being a guy that people like and want to cheer for is the weird part.

You have these magical moments in these live events that are never captured on film and that only live on in your memory. Those are always my favorite.

I put in the same hours to get good at this as a surgeon who went to college. It's just a much less important job in the realm of society.

There's no, 'Oh my God, somebody else is gonna come back and take my spot.' I wanna have a spot that's my spot, that nobody can take away, because nobody else is me.

A lot of people feel they spend enough time watching me go through the good, the bad, and the ugly, so they feel like they know me and are a part of it. I'm kind of like a part of people's families. You can't buy that kind of connection with people.

I like, at the end of the night, to be walking back to the locker room limping and sweating, spitting blood out of my mouth. I've been doing this for a long time, and it comes naturally.

People can see through crap pretty easily. Just go out there and be comfortable. Be you. Be authentic.

A crowd urging you on to do well can be very encouraging. It's very fun. It can be a really cool feeling.

I think I'm one of the only guys here - I mean, we have so much great talent here, but I can do anything. I can literally do anything. That's not me being like, 'Oh I'm so great.' I'm just like, 'I know what I'm doing.'

I never thought I was a bad person. I just thought I was the one good person living in a world of bad people.

I'm doing some more dangerous stuff on a weekly basis than professional stunt men are doing.

Being a nocturnal creature myself, I often find myself in dark alleys or strange places late at night. If there were werewolves around, I'd be likely to run into them, being the night owl that I am.

There is no creative process to come up with a character of Dean Ambrose.

I always take pride in the fact that nobody can mess with me, and I never let anybody mess with me my entire life.

You have to take a certain pride in your work.

The first time that somebody handed me a sheet of paper with a promo on it, it was like a 'throw up in your mouth' kind of moment. And it's not, like, their fault, you know? It's not the writers' fault. But if was my world, there would be no written promos; there'd be no scripts.