Quotes from Christopher Daniels

I made a joke to my wife that if this acting thing doesn't work out I can always be a pro wrestler, as a joke. She found out about a school that was about thirty minutes from where we lived, and she made the appointment for me.

I think the best wrestlers in the world are the ones who grow up watching it and have a love for it before they learn it's a business. You can tell the difference between the guys who grow up watching wrestling versus the guys who get into it as an opportunity to make a living.

Well, I think at this point, having won the championships that I aimed to win in my career, now the opportunities to wrestle different wrestlers is sort of the carrot that is dangling.

There's a pressure to be the wrestler that you are, that character that you've created 24 hours a day 7 days a week. It's tough for wrestlers sometimes to sort of have that separation between person and character.

So it didn't matter to me whether it was the serious guy or the comedy guy, if I was getting people involved and invested in watching wrestling then it's a win-win situation for both of us.

I've gone into cage matches, I've gone into Ultimate X, and I've said this before: I know exactly what I've signed up for, and I'm not afraid of anything in front of me, and I'm willing to do anything and whatever it takes to come out with my hand raised.

It warms my heart to know that people respect my opinion enough to want my input, to want my opinion on their their work and I try to give the benefit of my experience.

The difference between wrestling in singles and in tags, there's just a different art to it. There's a mentality.

I started training in January in 1993 and my first match was in April of that same year.

Ring of Honor has always been about the best wrestling in the world, and by adding the New Japan talent into the game, it's really upped everyone's game.

I'm always happy when I get a chance to go over to Japan just because I feel like, if I can have good matches with the Japanese and show them that at this point in my career I'm still willing to go out there and put it on the line, I feel like it's a positive step in my career.

I thought when Samoa Joe won the World Title was a special night. That was an instance where TNA sort of got out of it's own way and let the competitors speak for themselves.

I do a lot of yoga, it keeps you flexible and you recover from injury quickly and I try to keep my heart rate up the entire time.

I mean, I'm twenty years in the business, I still watch tapes. I still watch matches on Youtube. I'm trying to learn. I watch my old stuff to see what I used to do that worked, that didn't work. You never stop learning.

When we started with Ring of Honor, when we started with TNA, there was a very similar mindset that we were building something, that we were doing something good.

I've done a lot of ladder matches in my career and usually you come out a little more sore than you would in a regular match.

I'm not a soup can, but I feel like wrestling me and beating me means something, even though seems like everybody does it these days, but I'm okay with that.

I'm most comfortable being myself, but I will admit to having an abnormal amount of fun being the King of Spice.

If they would have introduced me as someone who is basically The Undertaker's boss, it would have fell flat. I'm 200 pounds and I'm 5'10", so it certainly would have been difficult to take me seriously as someone who is intimidating The Undertaker.

There are times when you'll be up in the spotlight at the very top of the show, and you get put back down in the mix because the company is trying to keep everybody fresh and interested, and one guy can't be stuck at the top of the card forever.

And so it's sort of a fine line where you want to be recognizable as professional wrestling but you also want to set yourself apart from what some people consider the standard of professional wrestling, which is the WWE.

The best thing TNA has been doing, every step we take has been a step forward.

As far as the level of success, any step that TNA took, it always felt like it was a small step, but it was a small step forward. I always felt like the smart thing that TNA did was that they never let their reach exceed their grasp, so to speak. They never tried to take on too much at one time.

When you hear complaints about pro wrestling, it's that there is too much soap opera, too much storyline.