Quotes from R-Truth

Memphis is like the heart of wrestling.

In many ways professional wrestling is a dance.

I was a fanatic about wrestling when I was a kid.

Do not try doing the things that we do one TV in WWE. We're the entertainers, we're the professionals.

WWF is my second job in my whole life.

A lot of my music is inspired by personal situations in my life.

My dance background helped me tremendously. Dancing is like second nature to me.

It's about important things such as having faith, pursuing your dreams and goals. My music is about drive.

I heard there are some real rowdy fans in New Zealand.

It's a long road of paying your dues. Each and every person that's in this business has to go down that road. Some people may not have to. Some people may be given that road instantly because of who they are.

Succeeding, being on TV, being a professional, I was proud of myself, I was happy.

Sometime I rap for the house. Sometime I rap live.

You can see into people's souls through their eyes.

All my mistakes, all my accomplishments, the good things I've done, the bad I've done, and the mistakes I've learned from, the mistakes I've never done before - all of that made me into what I am now.

I definitely consider myself a role model.

I don't like to talk about typical things in my music - my music is more about real life situations.

I met Tupac pretty much right after he did the movie 'Juice,' so he was already with Digital Underground, but he was on his own rise at this time. He was very humble, down to earth, a very cool guy.

I've kind of changed my diet, but in my diet rulebook, on section 5 paragraph A, there's a cheating plan. So, Corky's BBQ is one of my favorite spots to go to.

When you start feeling silly, you start doing silly things.

I want to keep grabbing, keep reaching, keep crawling, keep grinding and excelling until I can go no higher.

My character is such an entertaining character that it is a whole other element to the show, so once they put me and Carmella together it was like, okay, now I have something to do.

I remember, I was at the house with my oldest son and I got that call from Johnny Ace. You know that call. Johnny was the guy that hired me, fired me and hired me back, which was kind of cool. But I was just fired, everything stopped, my whole world stopped.

Gotta keep your ear to the streets. That's Rule No. 1.

I absorb energy, I absorb the good, the bad, I absorb everything. That's what makes me who I am.