Quotes from Matt Sydal

For us, our stage is always what it is. It's not about reaching the broadest audience as it's about doing quality work.

There are so many people in Ring of Honor and so much talent. It was almost intimidating to be thrown back in with this wealth of talent.

It's more about the feeling and how you felt when it was going on. Were you laughing with your friends? Were you having a good time? That's what makes wrestling good. It's not the wrestling itself. It's the experience that people have.

I worked extremely hard and dedicated my life to pro wrestling but the more I grow in ways not related to work, my work grows.

Brodie Lee would be a match I'd love to have. When he was the TNT Champion, I was sort of hoping to work my way up to that level.

I was just lucky to be there ahead of the curve to be the driving force behind bringing this amazing style of wrestling from Japan that combined Lucha Libre, American professional wrestling, Canadian professional wrestling and Japanese wrestling all into one beautiful mix that fans worldwide absolutely can't get enough of.

When I began in Ring of Honor, I was very fortunate to get on shows and get looked at and get the experience. I was working with a ton of guys who had more experience than me at the time, like AJ Styles and Christopher Daniels.

WWE was pretty wonderful to me because I was able to rehab my foot 100 percent before I was released.

I wouldn't want to go see a comedian if he was using the same jokes. So I'm not going out there trying to do the same thing that and my body's changed, my life's changed and really if people have already seen me do something a 1,000 times, 1,001 is not going to impress anybody.

I'm always impressed when fans' knowledge surpasses me.

Impact is just always improving at all angles. There is a lot of creativity and thought that goes into everything.

Evan Bourne is a ship that has sailed but if he wound up back at WWE, I'm imagine I'd run back to that name because of copyright ownership stuff.

I have a little dojo in Clearwater called the Sai Dojo and I've just been putting in extra work there and so, when I get a chance to wrestle now, my comfort level in the ring is higher, my skills are sharper and I just felt like I couldn't have a better time to get these huge opportunities.

Someone like Brian Cage, he's a gigantic man who is trying to wrestle like me. That's his mistake because I clearly hold the top card in someone who is wrestling like Matt Sydal.

But I really think wrestling with pure intentions just wrestling to be a better wrestler, eventually you will get there when the time is right.

You don't want to end up being an indie wrestler who wants to be the big fish in a small pond.

I am not like any other wrestler.

I'm the best Crusierweight, X Division, Junior Heavyweight wrestler whatever you want to call it.

I always wanted to be the worst wrestler on the shows I was on so I could just learn from the guys above me, and that's a great way to be in your first few years of wrestling.

I've always been an independent wrestler at heart. You say I haven't had a 'home' but a company is not a home, a house is a home, a family is a home and I have that.

Locker rooms always evolve with the wrestlers that are in it.

You can catch me following good wrestlers wherever they are.

Wrestling has become its own thing separate from what it was in the past and now when people think of pro wrestlers they don't think of Hulk Hogan, they're thinking of guys like me.

Now I think a lot of wrestlers want to get signed so that way they can be with a company where they can learn, but they're really kind of looking for a contract, and I do think that makes sense.