Quotes About Wrestling

I read a lot of things on Twitter, and I see a lot of things about Shayna and about me. I absolutely hate it when they rag on her and say she's boring. She's a heel, she's not supposed to be exciting. She's not supposed to make you like her.

I've always been a guy - I ran my mouth in NXT about the little guys who come through, and they are tough and feisty or whatever it is. To me, they're no more dangerous than a little chihuahua.

I came into Impact and I ran through the entire Knockouts locker room just like I said I would.

For the longest time, I was in random cold matches for 30 minutes and tore the house down for no reason, and everyone complained, 'Why isn't he in some kind of a story?'

My favorite opponent is probably Randy Orton.

I love 'Macho Man' Randy Savage, Shawn Michaels and Eddie Guerrero.

I'm sick of seeing John Cena against Randy Orton for the 500th time.

When my career took off like a rocket in '97 - me against the nWo and Randy Savage - I wasn't just a top guy, I was the top guy, and then in '98, I blew my back out.

My inspirations were 'Macho Man' Randy Savage and Andre the Giant. It was easy to understand their character.

My dream mixed-tag match has always been against the 'Macho Man' Randy Savage and Miss Elizabeth.

As for personality, without a doubt, my favorite of all time is Macho Man Randy Savage.

When Savage died, that was hard on me. I didn't even hardly know Randy, but I just turned 51 this past December, and he was 58 when he died. I'm like, 'Hey man, just because I'm in that line of work, do I have an expiration date? Am I supposed to go?' I always wonder, but I don't harbor it.

I beat Randy Orton, one of the all-time greats, you know. Why can't I beat a Brock Lesnar?

I would have always liked to have worked with Randy Orton because of the Diamond Cutter and the RKO.

How good would guys like John Cena, Randy Orton or Batista have been if they would have had 900 matches in their first three years?

My brother and I loved to body-slam each other when we were kids. We tore up a lot of furniture.

I've been working on wrestling aside from MMA. That is something that I wasn't doing in the past so I'm getting more confident in my wrestling. I learned that I didn't know a lot about takedowns, it's a really big gap and I'm catching up and learning a lot.

I held the title for almost eight years the first time and then I lost it at the Garden. But, then I came back and took it again for another four years.

The blue gear with the red dinosaur is special to me because that's the first gear I wore in NXT.

When I was young, a lot of the guys could sell themselves to me on the way to the ring with the way they acted and their mannerisms. Guys like Shawn Michaels, who I loved growing up. They were just loud. They didn't even need to say a word because they came out and had this crazy ring gear on.

At the end of the day, whatever you're doing in the ring, you want it to look real, and genuine, and authentic.

My mom was from Germantown and was of German descent. She was a real force behind me and my dream. She was always my biggest fan, even when I was wrestling at an early age.

I've been in the ring with some great workers, but anything that I can't see that's behind me - I wasn't a big fan of german suplexes or this buckle bomb because you can't see where you are in the air.

Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson were not giants, they were giants in the ring, they drew money, people loved them and that's what you find in the Young Bucks.