Quotes About Victory

All my life I wanted to be WWE champion, so when I won that, that was great.

Ever since I was 3 years old, I wanted to be WWE champion. I got that belt during WrestleMania 31, and I want it back. It's what drives me.

There was originally no plan in place for me to become WWE champion. It felt like I became the No. 1 contender out of nowhere. I call what I did forcing the results. I wasn't happy with my position. I was putting in the work, but I wasn't getting the results. I was going to force the result no matter what the cost.

I wrestled in Detroit many times before getting to WWE.

I have dreamed of being a champion in WWE, and there's nothing I won't do, no length I won't go to, in order to keep it that way.

Obviously, in WWE, everyone is on top of their game.

I think I'm going to be successful in WWE.

I've accomplished so much in the WWE.

Not many people get to say, 'I'm a WWE champion.' It's pretty incredible just to hear those words coming out of my mouth.

Everything in the business is based around the idea of a World Championship. WWE, World Heavyweight Championship, Universal Title, the ROH Title, or the IWGP Title - they are all World Championships. The best of the best.

The heart of the sport is about the top guys fighting each other. This isn't WWE; this is fighting.

Seeing myself as a champion in WWE is something I've seen from the first day I stepped into the Universe and the realm of the company.

I do want to look my best - I do want to be at my best - 'cause I do want to be WWE Champion. I do want to be on top.

I went to WWE to prove something. I had to go through Steve Austin, the Undertaker, Edge; I had to go through all of those guys to prove myself.

If anyone understands the enormous mountain that cruiserweights like myself have to climb, it's WWE champion Daniel Bryan - who not only climbed that mountain but now stands atop it.

I want to take that top spot in WWE, and I'm gunning for number one.

I kept doing tryouts, and finally, after five years I got signed by WWE.

When I won the United States Championship at Hell in a Cell, it was awesome. It was my first championship ever in WWE, so it's a really cool moment for me.

For many years prior to landing my big break with WWE, I learned a lot about uphill battles. I had to scratch and claw day after day for a really big dream that, at many times, seemed totally impossible.

In 2010, I defeated Michelle McCool and Layla to win my first championship in WWE. It was a surreal feeling that all of my hard work had paid off that night in Miami.

You can call WWE whatever you want, but at the end of the day, it's a fight and fighting is my specialty.

One thing I've learned from years of working in WWE is that the road to WrestleMania always starts at the Royal Rumble. That's why it's so important to win the Rumble: because it's your chance to secure a championship match at WWE's biggest event of the year - WrestleMania.

I've been on the other side where I know that a bad day at WWE beats the best day at Staples.

It was a very real thing, not a storyline thing when Randy Orton didn't want me to get to a certain point in WWE.