Quotes About Athletics

I always wanted to wrestle, but when you're a kid, how do you do pro wrestling? For me, it seemed like the easiest way for me was to get into amateur wrestling and go that route because it was a place where I was allowed to go.

My back's not great, and I can't wrestle a full schedule.

Honestly, I want to wrestle everybody.

I don't want to wrestle past 35. There's just too much physical strain with 250-pound men slamming into each other.

Kofi Kingston has always been one of my favorite opponents to wrestle. He and I started back in McDonough, Georgia in 2006 in developmental at Deep South together. So, our careers have come along at the same time. He's incredible.

I've gotten to wrestle some of the best women and men in the world - Brian Cage, AR Fox, Scorpio Sky, Tracy Williams, David Starr.

I would love to wrestle Scorpio Sky again, that's one of my most favorite matches.

When I'm training, I come to the gym twice a day and sometimes three times. My coach and I make our schedule: wrestle in the morning, strike and conditioning, jujitsu later. And we mix it up as well. I always move everything around. I don't keep everything the same every day.

I need to wrestle, I need to compete.

There's still times I wish I could throw on the black and gold singlet and go out there in the Hearnes Center and wrestle for the Missouri Tigers. I miss that and I miss the stuff about college wrestling.

I had virtually a three-month layoff from an injury angle we ran so I didn't wrestle at all. I was worried the most about my cardio and I tried to stay in cardio shape using a Stairmaster and treadmill but there's nothing like being in ring shape.

I'm able to get out there and wrestle for longer periods of time. It was like a whole new thing I hadn't done really in years.

I've always said that I'd continue to wrestle until it wasn't fun for me anymore. I'm still in great shape and until I can't compete at a top level, there's no reason for me to consider retirement yet.

I've been around wrestling since I was 12 years old and I really believe I was put on this planet to wrestle and that's what I love to do.

I still get nervous before going out, especially with a company like WWE and NXT, but it's different. I know how to wrestle, but it's the nerves of performing and wanting your last match to be as good as the one before.

Like, man, I would love to wrestle Roman Reigns. I would love to wrestle Gable, or Shorty G, I would love to.

Even though I do feel great right now, there is a chance that if I were to try to wrestle that I might reinjure myself. It might not be in that first match back and may not be in that second match back, but there is a chance.

I've main-evented WrestleMania a handful of times, but it never gets old. It's the same with nerves.

I guess I was the oldest guy to ever wrestle at Wrestlemania 25.

WrestleMania is amazing.

The first time you go out and perform at WrestleMania, it's a very challenging thing. It's the showcase of immortals, and you don't know what to expect, and every WrestleMania is different.

I was a part of the largest WrestleMania ever, so I know how to feed off the energy from the crowd in my fights.

I like to think, personally, that Shaq got scared. He saw the six-pack and realized if he faced me at WrestleMania, he was going to be Fat Shaq.

Balancing trying to be an athlete trying to get ready for WrestleMania, training twice a day, to everything you do at the office to remembering that you have a wife and kids and everything else - it's challenging, but you just make it happen. In some ways, it's no different than anyone else's life.