Quotes from Johnny Gargano

When I was Cedrick Von Haussen, the champion of Liechtenstein, I was only 18 years old. I was super, duper young. I started traveling around for wrestling when I was 16, so I had only been wrestling a few years at that point.

I play my Switch a lot when I'm traveling, when I'm on the bus or things like that.

We've got a bunch of guys who have been travelling around the world for over 10 years, scratching and clawing, fighting, just trying to live their dream, just trying to prove people wrong, just trying to show that we belong, and that's kind of the essence of NXT.

I'm kind of a smaller guy in my given profession, and people always told me I'm too small, so I know how it feels to have people tell you you'll never be anything.

I was a socially awkward 8-year-old kid who fell in love with wrestling when he felt like the whole world was against him. That's the key word: love. I don't do this for revenge; I do this because I love it. That's Johnny Wrestling.

I think NXT is kind of like the Cleveland, Ohio, of professional wrestling. We're that underdog whose hungry, who's always out to prove people wrong, and that's kind of what our locker room represents.

I'm a humungous Browns fan. My 30th birthday was actually at the Browns' stadium.

When I was younger, I actually stepped foot in a ring for the first time at 8 years old because of my dad.

Johnny Wrestling, to me, isn't just a cool nickname or a fun thing for the crowd to chant. To me, it's a state of mind, and it's just who I am. I first stepped foot in a wrestling ring when I was 8 years old.

NXT is unpredictable, and they are not afraid to tell a lot of different stories and compelling stories.

It's a blessing and a curse, 'cause I'm never satisfied, so I continually want to outdo myself. But still, I'm never happy.

I didn't have a contract for the first year of my time in NXT, and that was very stressful.

When I moved to Orlando, it was my first time moving from Cleveland. You never know what to expect. But to be able to go and work with Shawn Michaels and learn from him - it's just mind-blowing.

I try to be very current. I try to take something from everywhere I've been. I've wrestled in Japan, Singapore, China, Germany, and England. I try to bring a mix of different styles to the table.

I have nothing but respect for Adam Cole. I've known him for a very long time, and he's one of the best in the world.

It's always fascinating to me and blows my mind whenever I'm in a video game because I am such a big video game fan at heart.

I'm a huge wrestling video game fan. I grew up on wrestling video games.