Quotes from Wade Barrett

The most important thing in the Royal Rumble is saving as much energy as you can. The guy who's going to win is usually going to be the guy who can defend himself the longest.

It is a grind lifestyle and it never ends until you get hurt and then you sit home rehabbing for three months or whatever it is until you get back straight on that train grinding again, which is how you make your money in the pro wrestling world.

The interesting thing about film fighting is that it's very different to the kind of fighting we do in pro wrestling.

Most people can differentiate between the guy you see on TV and the real-life guy.

I'm lucky that I have a deep, strong voice naturally, and the rest of it I just worked on as far as confidence and projecting myself.

I've never gone out and courted favors. I've never gone out to be booed, either. It's just me being myself.

I'm not a terribly popular person in life. I can handle that.

There is nothing more terrifying than lying in the ring and feeling that your hand has gone numb.

I try as much as I can to bring out my own British flavor.

I felt very lucky that I not only got to be on Piper's Pit and work with Rowdy Roddy Piper who I feel is one of the best promo guys in the history of the company, but I also got to get interviewed by Mean Gene Okerlund who is another favorite from my childhood. I was a huge fan.

The one thing I try to do is bring something to my fight scenes that no other film fighter could ever do.

So in the pro wrestling world, everything is massively over the top and every reaction that you do in the ring is kind of corny if we're honest - it's not supposed to be serious - it's a comic book world.

I was told by thousands of people I would never make it.

If you look back at people like The Rock there are times when earlier in his career he was doing heel stuff and he was so entertaining that people cheered for him. The natural thing to do was turn him babyface.

I want to be the first English WWE world champion.

If you have the same guys at the top of the card all the time, people get bored of it. They don't want to see the same guys wrestling over and over again.

In terms of timing, there's never a good time to get injured.

Ninety-nine percent of the time, I'm pretty laid back and relaxed, but I can get very intense quickly.

I'm much happier on my own. Being a member of The Corre, for example, I was obviously better than all three of those guys. However, I made the mistake of holding them as equals. No more.

I'm a huge fan of Adrian Neville and I have been for a long time.

I think the biggest difficulty from transitioning from professional wrestling to the acting world is generally toning down your performance.

I remember when I was younger and seeing guys like The Rock cut these promos telling the world how terrible they are. How they are a bunch of losers and stuff like that. He was so funny when he did it that you couldn't wait 'til he came out and started insulting you.

I think increasingly WWE is a global company - as much as they can they want to push out into new markets like Europe.

Traditionally, WWE used to shy away from that Internet kind of fan base. But I think increasingly, in life in general and every aspect of entertainment, social media, the Internet fan base is now massive.