Quotes About Performance

I've sort of always pulled for the heels, like the bad guys. So I think if I were a pro wrestler, first I'd need to bulk up, and second I'll need to get sort of a bad-boy persona.

Absolutely, it's awesome to be a pro wrestler.

I consider myself more of a wrestler than a sports entertainer.

It's very hard when you start working as a wrestler to try and stop doing things that are second nature. For me, when I take a move and start selling, that is second nature for me.

I do feel like since I am a third-generation wrestler, I do have to hold myself - and there are a lot of people that expect certain things out of me - I'm an athlete, and I'm a top athlete.

I don't want it to be Sonya Deville, the gay wrestler. I want it to be Sonya Deville, the awesome performer who happens to be gay.

There is a difference between being a wrestler and being a pro wrestler.

Whatever it is that you do, dial it up to a 10 because for me people won't necessarily think I am the best wrestler in the world, but I can do what others can't.

When I wrestled, I always considered myself an athlete and a wrestler.

I'm not a pro wrestler. I don't have what I'm supposed to say written for me.

I'm the best Crusierweight, X Division, Junior Heavyweight wrestler whatever you want to call it.

I wanted people to see just how good of a professional wrestler I really am.

I do MMA, but I feel like a pro wrestler at heart. That's why I fight the way I fight in MMA. That's why I slam people and stuff around.

Growing up when I was watching wrestling, if a guy couldn't talk, I didn't care about him. You could have the fanciest moves and be the greatest wrestler if all time, but if you didn't have a compelling character and you couldn't talk, I didn't care.

I'm not a WWE wrestler and that's how it feels sometimes out on the court.

Matt Hardy is a tag team wrestler. He's one of the greatest tag team wresters in the history of tag team wrestling.

The best wrestlers don't hurt anyone for real.

The best wrestlers, whether it's a Hulk Hogan or a Rey Mysterio, are the ones who have psychology and can understand this business.

I'm one of those wrestlers that leaves everything to the audience and to the fans. I never plan anything, and you will never see Alberto Patron planning in the back what he is going to do in the match.

If the audience likes and appreciates a move, it gives the wrestlers in a ring a little bit of extra energy, and you can always use that.

There's so many great wrestlers in this sport who could probably work circles around me and it's amazing to see that, but I love being the kind of character who can take you on a roller coaster, make you smile and laugh.

In 'Fighting With My Family,' there's a scene where I have to wrestle; I have to do the famous fight between Paige and AJ Lee. We actually did perform it in front of all those thousands of people. And just beforehand, we had a little dress rehearsal, and there were all these famous wrestlers going around and watching as well. Terrifying.

Football players cannot be wrestlers. Wrestling is a much tougher sport.

When I was nine years old and dreamed of being a pro wrestler, the thing I was most fascinated by was how much love the wrestlers got.