Quotes About Aspiration

In the back of my mind. I always knew WWE was where I should be and where I would end up. Or where I could end up. Where I deep-down wanted to end up.

When I started wrestling, I never wanted to go to WWE. It was the Japanese life for me.

Fortunately for me, I discovered Ring of Honor. And I saw guys who were much smaller in stature but were putting on these amazing matches that I had never seen in WWE before. So I thought, at the very least, I'd love the chance to be able to wrestle in a company like that someday.

My experience with video games is a far cry from 'WWE 2K17.' Did I ever aspire to be that character? Man, I just wanted to be a hero to kids. Whether it's a character in a video game, a movie or a TV series, it's an accolade that I'm greatly appreciative of.

Eddie Guerrero is my number one. He is the reason I am in the WWE - I wanted to be the female version of him.

I don't want to go back to WWE and burn out within four or five months, and having another run as TNA world champion would feel just as good.

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

When I was 5 years old, I wanted to be a WWE superstar.

Miz and I grew up a couple of minutes apart in the Cleveland area and both had dreams of being WWE Superstars and being the best.

To be clear, NXT is a great place to be at, you know what I mean? ... Obviously, everybody aspires to be on Raw or Smackdown. That's why they sign with WWE, because they want to be able to perform on that stage and at Wrestlemania and Summerslam.

A big reason why I signed with WWE in the first place was because my son wanted to see me wrestle in WWE, and he wanted to see me wrestle John Cena.

I hope that Ring Of Honor could one day sell out Madison Square Garden when WWE is not in town.

If I aspire to be the king of WWE, one day if I keep working at it, I will be the king of WWE.

One of my goals is to become a WWE Hall of Famer.

The sky is truly the limit for WWE.

I believe that I will be the WWE World Champion one day. I know that a lot of people say that; it's easy to say. If I were to go away without accomplishing that task, I would feel unfulfilled, to be completely honest.

Being born into the business, I had the connections. A lot of guys aspire to be professional wrestlers, but you need to get trained the right way. And then, once you're trained, you need to get to that next level, and really, the WWE is the only place to do it.

WWE, in the back of my mind, was always the dream job, and most people don't get their dream jobs.

Instead of fantasizing about food, I'm fantasizing about the WWE championship.

As long as I can remember, I was a WWE fan. I wanted to grow up and be a WWE superstar just like my favorites.

My wife loves to tell me that I love to tell people, 'Oh, I never thought WWE would sign me. I never thought I'd be on TV. I never thought I'd be a champion. I never thought any of those things were remotely possible.'

Joining WWE has always been a lifelong dream of mine.

At 13, I knew where I wanted to be. I wanted to be in WWE.

I remember seeing an action figure of The Rock and going, 'You know what? I'm going to become a WWE Superstar.'