Quotes from William Regal

I admire traits in people. I 'respect' certain things about them but I think that word gets thrown around too much.

One man won't make a difference against sixty.

I want to keep all the comedy to interviews and outside-the-ring work.

I was the last of the British style that was a big thing in Japan.

Jerry Brisco, who is a WWE Hall of Famer, goes out and scouts all of the amateur wrestling.

I saw there was an open market because everything was pushed towards young boys, but we had nothing for young girls. That was a role that could be filled, and finding Bayley helped.

It's wonderful to see a young lady headbutt somebody and kick somebody's face.

Just traveling the world, and getting to live the highs and lows of what we do, makes you a better talent and a better performer.

A lot of British people of my age would not have know of the terrible treatment of Nelson Mandela if not for Jerry Dammers and The Specials.

When I was in WCW I came out the back and found six fellas smashing my car up - that was a nice interaction, I had to run all them off.

I've made more with John Cena just by being John Cena that anyone else I've ever met. He works harder than anyone I've ever met, 30 hours a day, 500 days a year and will do anything and everything that is asked of him and couldn't possibly work harder. He is a mega draw.

You've got to embrace whatever is given and make the most of every opportunity to make it funny or to make it memorable.

Life is just experience, whether it's good or bad, whatever you're doing you should learn from it if you've got the right kind of mindset.

Sometimes, you know how good certain people are and then you actually get to see them have the kind of matches you know they can have in front of an audience that isn't used to seeing that. Then, in a few minutes the audience is on the edge of their seats, just through the sheer craftsmanship of their abilities.

Alexander Rusev is one of the most incredible things I've seen in my entire 30-year career. He's a ferocious monster.

People from the beginning of time have always loved to watch two people in competition with each other. You go back to the gladiatorial shows, there's just something about it.

I hadn't slept in 20 years. I would sleep a couple hours a night, and I went from specialist to specialist and they could never find out why.

You'll always have people saying 'these guys look good' but there's a difference in what we're looking for. We want our fighters to look like fighters, sure, but the moves still have to look good.

At the end of the day, who at my age can say that they fought somebody that fought Muhammad Ali?

My little niece used to call me and say 'I like watching that Uncle Darren, can I have a T-shirt of AJ Lee' and I went 'they don't make any' and it just struck me. We have Rey Mysterio for little boys. But we don't have anything for little girls.

Unfortunately, sometimes the unexpected can be something that you wish you never encountered.

Anytime you can already have somebody in a pinning position where they can't kick out, what better than that for a brilliant man.

If you take yourself too seriously, you've got no chance in this job. You cannot take yourself seriously.

You have to be able to work as a unit sometimes, in the ring when you're wrestling other people.