Quotes About Wrestling

I have a backbone; that doesn't make me a heel. That makes me the biggest babyface there is.

I wanted to be a part of charities when I saw people doing all the charity stuff in WWE. I wanted to be a part of that but because I was a heel, I couldn't, so it felt like I wasn't doing anything.

When you try and flip a guy from heel to baby face, the audience gets confused.

I've been trying to make it my own way in an industry full of heels walking around in babyface costumes, and that brought out the worst in me.

I'm really excited to bring everything that I had learned from NXT and put that into the character on 'SmackDown Live' and be one of the biggest, if not best heels the company has ever seen.

I just wanted to experience what it felt like on the other side of the fence. As we all know, the heels have the most fun out there in the ring.

I know there's this idea going around that I bury The Young Bucks on commentary but that's never been the case. If anything, I've only treated them harshly as heels. That's it. When they started turning around from being a heel to a face, it's a whole different story. That's simply a matter of how I see commentary as opposed to beef.

The list of guys who have held the ROH championship, that's an elite group of guys.

Even wrestling, now, I wear the helmet all the time. I'm not going to make that mistake again ever in my life.

I was like, 'Hey, I love highflying. I love lucha libre. Can I just put on a mask and pass myself off as a luchador?' Everyone was like, 'You're going to do what you want to do,' so that's what I did for the first four or five years. I just put on a mask and pretended to be this luchador.

I've seen some amazing independent wrestling shows. I've seen high quality matches, I've seen high level talent.

Without sounding too full of myself, with wrestling I felt like I was one of the best in the world and I competed at a very high level for a long time.

In high school and college all my friends and my brother wrestled.

One of the things that made me love wrestling in general was my career in amateur wrestling in high school and college. Just being on the mat made me feel a type of aggression I wasn't really able to produce in my regular life.

I thought my time in TNA went about as well as it possibly could for what it was. With me being as young as I was and them trying to highlight the x division like they did.

I would have to say probably some of my favorite highlights in the ring would have to be with The Rock. Because at that time, me and him were number one guys, both of us on the rise, and just the matches we had were good times.

The Ric Flair, I am his teacher from the Minnesota. We work together. He great performer, he great talker.

I think, for me, I should have worked harder on my mic skills, and I should have been a lot easier to deal with, and I would have been pushed a lot better.

Ric Flair, as great was and a hard worker as he was, he just tends to get lost in the ring.

Unfortunately, I'd be put over Ryback because, like, as a better worker, but I'm like, I don't want more of a comparison because I'm wearing a singlet as well, but that's what they went with and a lot of people like that.

I'll tell you upfront, I think Shawn Michaels was probably the most gifted worker the business has ever seen.

I don't think people realize how good Fit Finlay was. He was the best heel and probably the best worker I'd ever seen.

As great as Hulk Hogan was, he still wasn't that great a worker.

Being a good worker in WWE is the worst curse that you can have. Instead of being given the title for being a great worker, they give it to someone who isn't and have that person work with the good worker, so they look good in the ring.