Quotes About Wrestling

I came from the independent scene, and I've wrestled in front of a crowd of four people in a car lot in 104 degrees in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

I've always just took notice of what's going on in the wrestling business and who the younger fellas are, and younger ladies, that are interested in this.

Hulk Hogan and I put 43,000 people in the Georgia Dome with three days' notice. I've got a fairly big following in Atlanta.

I was fortunate enough to have a great career with CMLL, which played a large role in helping me get noticed by WWE.

NXT is huge, being able to be on TV internationally is a big deal, as it means you don't have to work so hard to get noticed as opposed to FCW, Deep South Wrestling and OVW, which were all televised, but locally.

We're a great part of the show... we're a novelty on the show. I think having one Divas match a night really makes it special, and I'm proud to be a part of it and hope to take it to the next level.

I wrestled Jordan Burroughs two times - Jordan Burroughs had a hell of a time trying to take me down. I stopped his double leg numerous times. And he also, probably, fractured my sternum - from me trying to stop him.

I spent the majority of my adult life in a business where the object is to make people believe that you believe what you say. I was good at that, right?

It's been a lot of responsibility to be an ambassador for U.S. wrestling and the sport. It's a tough journey. There's a lot of obligations but also a lot of opportunity.

I've had a lifelong passion, and really obsession, with professional wrestling since I was a very small kid.

I got to work with Nia Jax when she just started, and that's just a whole other obstacle: like, I've never been in the ring with someone like her before.

When you see the Elimination Chamber on TV, it obviously looks intimidating and huge. But when you're there in person and inside it, it's a whole different ballgame.

A lot of people say, 'What set the Attitude Era up?' or, 'What started the Attitude Era?' To me – and I was allegedly the leader of it – sports entertainment, pro wrestling, whatever you want to call it has always had an attitude. So, why that particular generation got labeled, I don't know.

Right now, they were all staring back at me like I'd asked them to sign up for alligator wrestling or ballroom-dance classes or something seriously awful like that.

Fiction is like wrestling with angels-you do not expect to win, but you do expect to come away from the experience changed.

I'm a book junkie. When I retire from wrestling I'm going to open a mystery bookstore." "Can you make a living selling mysteries?" "No. Nobody makes a living selling mysteries. The stores are all fronts for numbers operations.

Stylistically, every fight in the division is a hard fight. Lyoto Machida is unorthodox, Jon Jones is long and tall with good wrestling, Ryan Bader has good wrestling. You can't pick one and say, 'I want to fight him.'

I want more unpredictability. I want more realism. I think the fans would appreciate that, and that's what I've brought since day one.

I hate ladders. I don't mind heights, but I hate getting hit with ladders and falling into ladders. Anything where there are ladders involved or inanimate, unpredictable objects or multiple people gets dangerous.

NXT is unpredictable, and they are not afraid to tell a lot of different stories and compelling stories.

The response Cena elicits from the crowd is unreal. And critically, AJ Styles has been considered one of, if not, the best in the world. Together, it's magic.

I packed my bags and went back to California and actually put wrestling behind me. I actually thought, well you know what, I thought it was crazy I made it once and to think I'm going to come back or whatever was unrealistic goal. So I went back to bodyguarding and substitute teaching.

NXT is very special, and everybody who turns in for Unstoppable is gonna see that.

There's an unwritten protocol when you hurt somebody. And when I say you hurt somebody, obviously it's not on purpose, but it still happens. I know I've rocked guys before where I checked on them after to make sure everything's cool.