Quotes from John Layfield

I should be a poster child for CTE.

I work with kids every day, and I preach to them how much more they make and how much easier it is to get a job when they get a college education.

When people look at Bermuda, they see the beautiful beaches, the golf courses, the fishing, and that's what they should see. That's Bermuda. What they don't see is the almost predominant black-on-black violence that is unfortunately pervasive throughout the local neighborhoods.

Presidential scandals have traditionally and historically no effect on the market.

I buy companies I want to own. I buy companies that make a lot of money, that don't have a lot of debt, and that I can understand.

If a guy has served time and served his sentence, he deserves the right to gainful employment, but he does not deserve the right to be put at the front of the list.

I do a mind game every day. I play chess, sudoku. I learn something different: a language, a few words of a different language.

You look at something like Russia, or you look at something like China, where you actually allow free markets to go in. And you haven't seen the change that we, in the western world, would probably like. You still have a bit of a dictatorship - some people would say more than a bit of a dictatorship - in Russia and in China.

My belief is that the U.S. is looking at the world through a short-term lens of tariffs and elections, while China is looking at a 25-year plan of becoming the dominant global power.

Leaving college early to play pro football was the best thing that happened to me. I got to drop the most boring poetry class. Dumbest thing I did was being in that class.

I played a little pro football, didn't make much money.

'Stone Cold' came in with a monster push as 'The Ringmaster' with Ted DiBiase. That didn't work out.

I retired because I had to, not because I wanted to. The temptation to get back in the ring is very much there.

I think The Miz can be a terrific heel. Miz enjoys being a heel, and I think he's actually very good at it. People look at him and want to hate him. That's what you want.

I think, Randy Orton, he has obviously been around a long time, but I think Randy Orton can be a terrific heel.

Guys do dives because they don't know how to work. Guys do flips because they don't know how to work.

In West Texas, where I grew up, I had a wind farm planned. I'd gotten the turbines bought and the land acquired, and then the renewable energy credit imploded, and it killed the margins, so the deal never worked, but the investment bank I was working with asked me and said, 'We really like what you did. Would you come to work for us?'

I enjoyed the Bradshaw character - the beer-drinking character from Texas. It was just fun.

I'm a kid from a small town in West Texas, and I've gotten to travel the world. I got to live all over the world.

Texas was a hotbed for professional wrestling when I was growing up.

We must deal with Chinese theft of intellectual property, though no one is sure that tariffs are the solution.

When I started, guys were hazed, and for good reason.

I told myself after my football career was over that if I ever started making good money again, I would invest it wisely.

I'm a part of major league rugby. We had a league meeting to decide what to do with anthem protests, and even though I personally agree with what they say they are protesting as inequality and judicial system and incarceration rates among minorities, we decided all should stand and respect every national anthem.