Quotes About Performance

There's a lot of guys in WWE - you would know who they are - you know you're going to see the same thing every single match. You know you're going to hear the same thing every time they pick up a microphone. You know John Cena is never going to get mad at you no matter what you do.

WWE prepares you for so much other stuff in entertainment.

You wouldn't have thought Paul Heyman and CM Punk would have been so effective with the WWE Title, but we were because we understood our roles to each and the audience.

To be clear, NXT is a great place to be at, you know what I mean? ... Obviously, everybody aspires to be on Raw or Smackdown. That's why they sign with WWE, because they want to be able to perform on that stage and at Wrestlemania and Summerslam.

In order to succeed in WWE, you're responsible. If you put in 100 percent, you get back 100 percent.

If you're not in the WWE and bouncing around in the Indy shows, you're not with the best.

In Total Nonstop Action, individual wrestlers have a lot more freedom to artistically express themselves versus WWE.

I think healthy competition is great, and I think WWE would agree.

I hope that Ring Of Honor could one day sell out Madison Square Garden when WWE is not in town.

Obviously, in WWE, everyone is on top of their game.

I think I am the most dominant superstar in WWE.

One day, when I'm unable to physically perform, would I want to pursue more of an acting career? Eh, maybe. But I think my home is with the WWE, being on the road and wrestling in front of a live audience.

If you're a fan of Indie wrestling at all, you can go back to, I think, 2007-2008, and you can see me wrestle CHIKARA. And you can see me wrestle in a tank top, and you can see me wrestle in a tank top that doesn't look like the one I have in WWE. But it's the same one.

Doing these movies I've done with WWE, it's a different pace. It's a lot of hurry up and wait, a lot of sitting around and like the day of the pay-per-view, when you're thinking about what you can do, and then you get the payoff, the reward, that night. It's just a different animal.

Professional wrestling... is no different than a Broadway play except that in a Broadway play, actors are using dialogue to tell a story and establish their characters, while in WWE, they're using a physical dialogue to tell their story and build their characters. That's a very unique art; it really is.

I would definitely say the WWE superstars are underrated athletically. In fact, that's one of the things that always attracted me to wrestling.

Honestly, I think we in the WWE are very underrated as performers. What we do would be very difficult for even an experienced actor. To go out and sometimes have 15 minutes of verbiage, sometimes have to ad-lib and then, of course, have other variables such as the interaction with the audience, it can be challenging.

I'm the bad guy in WWE, which I find hilarious.

Being a WWE superstar is about giving, and I think there's a few guys who get that.

The run that I had - which really was, like, four months in the WWE - it wasn't great. But my opening day was great. My opening day was humongous. And then WrestleMania was pretty much my closing card. I did one 'Raw' after that, but that WrestleMania 18 match that I had with Christian, that was a hell of a match.

I think the great thing about the WWE universe is that they just love to see us perform.

Anyone that watches WWE realizes a lot of times we do big stuff. We're considered over the top.

The thing about WWE that is so awesome is the global reach.

We weave our real lives into our WWE lives. We just look at what's happening in our lives, and what can we do? What's the most annoying - as a bad guy, as a villain, what's the thing we can do to make people hate us?