Quotes About Performance

The first time you go out and perform at WrestleMania, it's a very challenging thing. It's the showcase of immortals, and you don't know what to expect, and every WrestleMania is different.

I was a part of the largest WrestleMania ever, so I know how to feed off the energy from the crowd in my fights.

I plan on headlining WrestleMania by WrestleMania 35.

On the road to WrestleMania, this is where everyone's giving 110 percent.

WrestleMania was one of my greatest matches in my career.

I think at WrestleMania you definitely want a singles match and not have to share the spotlight with other guys.

At 'WrestleMania,' I can show my 100 percent or more.

If I'm called to be on the grandest stage, at 'WrestleMania,' I'll be ready.

Can you do inter-gender matches? Ronda Rousey and our match at Wrestlemania - sure, it can be done. Women don't need a man in their match to steal the show. They just need an equal platform and opportunity, and if the women have it, they will work just as hard, if not harder, than anybody else to steal that show.

I can see myself having a great WrestleMania match with John Cena, with Chris Jericho.

I had a very good babyface run, but establishing a monster heel - which I think I would have excelled at - and a poor WrestleMania track record is a hard pill to swallow.

I've gotten in the ring with Sasha Banks on the highest level at WrestleMania in the main event.

Being at WrestleMania, you have to prepare.

To go from being at the Performance Centre, essentially working in an empty warehouse, to go from that to the ThunderDome to actually being in front of a crowd at WrestleMania, is almost indescribable.

It doesn't matter if you're the best wrestler in the world and can do every move perfectly; if you don't connect with the crowd or sell well or have good promos, nobody cares.

At 15-years-old, I always wanted to do professional wrestling, and at 15, I started training as a professional wrestler. It was always the plan to become an entertainer, a sports entertainer.

Once upon a time if you go back to the early 2000s all the way to 2014 all I cared about in life was being a wrestler, going on the road, performing in front of crowds, getting big, climbing the ladder.

I always knew that in the U.S., if you wanted to be a wrestler, Ring of Honor was the place to be.

I'm a professional wrestler at heart, and I miss it.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be either a rock star or a wrestler.

Just because you have a good athletic background doesn't make you necessarily a good wrestler. Because it takes a lot to be a good professional wrestler.

I don't get into record beef. That's the wackest beef. That's not even a beef; that's entertainment. Might as well be a wrestler or something.

I am a real Iranian, and I'm in entertainment but still I was a 100 per-cent wrestler.

I didn't know what a good technical wrestler was when I was little - it was people that made me scream or boo or cheer.