Quotes About Wrestling

I started training in January in 1993 and my first match was in April of that same year.

The leg drop was a move that nobody really used, and nobody ever hit the ropes and jumped up really high, so I tried it out in Japan and the people loved it. That's how I came up with it.

I like doing the shows with Ring of Honor, but I don't want to leave Japan.

Of course I wanted to main-event wrestling matches in TNA, but in their eyes, no, that would not happen. So I went back to New Japan.

Tenryu is a legend in Japan.

I know who Asuka is, I've seen her work in Japan and NXT. She is incredibly talented.

For me, there are so many art forms in wrestling. There's the Ring of Honor art, the New Japan art, so whatever you enjoy, there's a facet of wrestling out there for you to watch.

I wrestled all over the world, in carnivals and tents in Europe and in Japan over 50 times.

So, wrestling, being strong, having good matches? I learned that in New Japan. But as a TV character? TNA was good.

I'm the best, not Omega. I love New Japan more than Omega, and I will continue to prove that.

I've wrestled Rich Swann countless times. I've faced Akira Tozawa in Japan and America. Zack Sabre Jr. is another guy I've faced many times.

Boxing was not as big as wrestling in Japan, but people knew Leon Spinks.

I watch Dragon Gate, New Japan, NXT, AEW. I love the Lucha Bros, The Young Bucks. Mainly I watch the guys in the shows that I'm on.

I've always had an awesome relationship with New Japan.

Ring of Honor has always been about the best wrestling in the world, and by adding the New Japan talent into the game, it's really upped everyone's game.

I was going to go back to doing the indies more often and possibly working more of a full-time schedule in Japan. If I didn't get the chance to go to WWE, that would have been a bummer to me, but I was just going to continue to do the best I could and continue my legacy.

When I started with New Japan in 2011, there was a total of five or six foreigners on the roster.

I was actually in Japan when I had the conversation with the TNA brass about my situation coming to an end with them.

I watched Japanese style wrestling, European style wrestling, and WCW.

I respect Asuka for all she's done in her career all over the globe and for what she's done here in NXT in such a short amount of time, but this is my home. The pride she has in Japanese wrestling, I have in NXT.

I love watching Japanese wrestling, and then Bryan will be like, 'Watch this' or 'See this.'

I'm always happy when I get a chance to go over to Japan just because I feel like, if I can have good matches with the Japanese and show them that at this point in my career I'm still willing to go out there and put it on the line, I feel like it's a positive step in my career.

For those that don't know, a Ronin is a Japanese word for masterless samurai and in the wrestling industry that is how I see myself.

Yeah, Japanese wrestling is my favorite wrestling.