Quotes from Kazuchika Okada

I am new school, but Ultimo Dragon taught me that wrestling is a fight. He taught me the importance of the fighting spirit in the ring.

I think it's cool to be able to show people who don't know anything about NJPW what we do.

Being the longest-reigning champion isn't that big a deal to me because records are made to be broken.

There's no bigger a superstar, and nobody closer with the fans, than Kazuchika Okada.

I love working in front of American crowds.

Jay White has a great chance to make his name off of me. But I'm not going to make that easy.

I heard of the word 'rainmaker.' It means one particular star who could make a company or project rich and successful. Someone that makes it rain with money. I thought it was a really good concept, so I took over that idea to become the rainmaker.

I wouldn't say I really admired anyone. When I was a kid, there were definitely a lot of tough guys, but they weren't really cool. If anything, that was an influence on me: to take that toughness and combine it with the cool style, the cool entrance, the cool gear - and driving to work in a Ferrari.

IWGP is the number one title in the world.

I should hold the IWGP title always.

I had no aspirations beyond middle school except to wrestle, no reason to go into high school. This world is all I've known since 15 years of age.

I didn't get to wrestle at all in TNA. I wanted to wrestle, and they wouldn't let me.

TNA didn't use me, but I got hungrier to wrestle. The struggle made me better.

I'm going to show you how we do it in New Japan Pro Wrestling. That's what you get whenever I wrestle, whoever's in the ring with me.

I really appreciate ROH for letting me wrestle in the United States. American fans get to see me and get to see New Japan. Ring of Honor lets us do that.

When I was just a strong wrestler, TNA didn't use me. I didn't have a character, so I knew I needed one.

I was always a good wrestler. I feel like I can wrestle anybody.

My dream is to bring a G1 tournament to the United States. I want to do a G1 in front of American crowds.

New Japan is far superior to WWE when it comes to the quality of the roster and the quality of the matches.

Many people ask me about WWE and if I'd go to WWE in the future. They ask me if I'm going now. I will not go. I want to make New Japan Pro-Wrestling bigger.

I'm not interested in WWE at all.

I like doing the shows with Ring of Honor, but I don't want to leave Japan.

Of course I wanted to main-event wrestling matches in TNA, but in their eyes, no, that would not happen. So I went back to New Japan.

Tenryu is a legend in Japan.