Quotes from Cesaro

I'm the first one to always criticize myself, and I'm trying to find ways to get better.

UFC, definitely not - I do not think that is a fit for me. I am looking forward to seeing CM Punk's UFC debut, and I hope he does really well. But it is not something that I want to do.

I care nothing about American football.

You have to be extremely fit. It is a professional sport. We have five shows a week. In 2014, I had 220 matches; in 2015, I was on the way to a similar amount before I got hurt. It is a full-time lifestyle. It is very demanding.

When I go to different countries, I want to know how to at least say hello and thank you. Language is a great hobby.

I'm a really big fan of the history of wrestling.

I am not that big of a fantasy person. I prefer myself to think of living in the real world.

I'm sick of seeing John Cena against Randy Orton for the 500th time.

As long as you work hard, good things will come. I firmly believe that.

'SmackDown,' I feel, has more excitement than 'Raw,' even though 'Raw' is always branded as the flagship show.

Hard work doesn't guarantee success, but it does enhance its chances.

You only get one chance to make the first impression. And I made the biggest first impression ever by throwing the Big Show over the top rope.

I started at the bottom and worked my way up. I think that shows hard work pays off. A good thing takes a while.

If you look at the Intercontinental Champion, historically, that has always belonged to the best of the best in-ring talent, the best wrestler, whatever you want to call it, that came out night after night, produced night after night - and that will be me.

If the audience likes and appreciates a move, it gives the wrestlers in a ring a little bit of extra energy, and you can always use that.

I still believe in old school values, I still believe in hard work, I still believe in wrestling, and people have showed that's what they want to see.

I guess I'm just a tough cookie.

There is nothing like WWE live.

I think, over my career, if you look at it in WWE, Sheamus has always been one of my biggest adversaries and one of the ones I would like to say I had some very memorable bouts with. It's definitely fun to be in the ring with him.

My brain can form thoughts that come out through my mouth. The problem is sometimes I stumble the words because I speak five different languages - we know all that - so the thing is, I like to speak the language that everybody speaks all around the world, that the WWE Universe loves... that's the language of wrestling that I do in the ring.

I think I have faced pretty much everyone that is in the WWE.

I feel like everything in WWE I earn the hard way.

I was a big fan of wrestling growing up and of WWE.

To some people, being in the business only starts when you're in the WWE. So I guess for those people, I'm kind of an overnight sensation.