Quotes from Dolph Ziggler

When I was 8 years old, I watched 'Saturday Night Live,' and I always wanted to be on there and be an entertainer.

If I have 30 seconds to make everyone remember what I do, I better make the most of it.

They love you when you're doing well and hate you when you're the bad guy.

I am not trying to be the next anyone - I am going to be the first Dolph Ziggler!

I've made it clear - I'm not patient at all - several times.

If I was always doing my own thing, I would be bored out of my mind.

You don't just go to your bosses and say, 'This sucks. I'm supposed to be winning everything.' If you have an awesome idea or a story, or something great, you go, 'Hey, how about we do this,' but when the story is not you, you have to find a way to make it work.

I'm not going to be one of those guys who changes, and all of a sudden I'm shaking hands and kissing babies.

I was a huge fan of Jon Lovitz, Dana Carvey, Jan Hooks, obviously Phil Hartman, and a very young Adam Sandler.

After a while, you reach a certain point to where you know what your talent is, you know what you're capable of, and you have to not care.

I was the World Champ, but I should be better.

I would love to make my entire career as the guy who did not get cheered. Of course, I'm still going to get cheered by people who think they're smart, and that's fine - they're acknowledging how good I am at my job - but I don't want cheers; I want the boos. I love it.

I live to leave somebody with a positive experience when they've met me, and make someone smile for the day.

I make pink look pretty damn good.

I have no desire to switch companies or go to UFC or anything like that.

When people are funny, I like to let them know that they're funny. There's so much negativity, it's cool to get some positivity out there.

It's really funny to me that I get called a workhorse or somebody who's really good at making other people better in the ring. I feel like I'm good at every aspect of this. I feel like I'm a great talker; I feel like I'm a great representative of the company. I broke records in college. I have an amateur background with fighting skills.

People can pick and choose what they want out of it, but I feel like I'm a modern day Renaissance man of anything you could want me to do... except be six inches taller.

Some advice I would give myself from the Spirit Squad years - try and get taller.

I dare you to put me in a back alley with Randy Orton or someone like that. I guarantee I'm not afraid of someone taller.

Some people debut and beat John Cena. Some people debut and lose to R-Truth. That happened to me by count out. So, everything is different.

Whatever you do, take pride in it and be great at it.

The Cavaliers used to play at the Richfield Coliseum, and I actually went to see them when I was a little kid. Mark Price, Brad Daugherty, Larry Nance, all those guys.

NO, I will not accept straight edge into my life!