Quotes About Opportunity

Without knocking Impact Wrestling, your contribution was largely limited to what you could do in the TV show. WWE is a bigger company with a bigger infrastructure and a lot more ways to make a contribution.

WWE has given me an out where, any days off that I have, they allow me to work on outside projects.

I didn't have any pedigree or any last name that would get me an opportunity to get looked at by WWE.

WWE was an opportunity to wrestle in front of thousands - in 2013, I did 227 matches, and almost all of them were in front of more than three or four thousand people, with a high of 70,000 plus. It was an incredible experience to be part of that.

WWE prepares you for so much other stuff in entertainment.

It's not a male-dominated anything... It's WWE, and it's for anybody.

I'm an example that, in the WWE, there are opportunities for people who work hard, improve constantly.

I would love to take the WWE championship back to India. Nobody has ever taken a WWE championship to India, so just to think about the power that I would have to motivate the youth and to inspire a tremendous amount of people there is amazing.

I have an open door with WWE as far as wrestling goes.

I wrestled in Detroit many times before getting to WWE.

The sky is truly the limit for WWE.

I'm glad I didn't get to WWE until I did because I was more complete at 32 than I was at 25. It all happens for a reason.

Being born into the business, I had the connections. A lot of guys aspire to be professional wrestlers, but you need to get trained the right way. And then, once you're trained, you need to get to that next level, and really, the WWE is the only place to do it.

I didn't mind when Paul Wight came to me and said WWE offered him $1 million a year for ten years. I was like, 'Dude, you need to take that. You need to go now. Lemme give you a ride to the airport.'

WWE sees India as huge opportunity and wants to continue to build its base.

If it wasn't for the Internet, I might never have left WWE. Then again, if it wasn't for the Internet, I probably wouldn't have been brought back.

You know that if you come to WWE and want to maintain a certain level of success, you're going to be busy and gone a lot. It's part of the deal.

When I went to Impact, it was me proving myself on a daily basis to a lot of different people. I mean, I had matches with Austin Aries, matches with Jeff Hardy, Bobby Roode, Drew McIntyre. I mean, I wrestled everyone. During that time, I wasn't just sitting back saying, 'Man, I hope WWE picks me up. I hope they see me. I hope to get back.'

I wouldn't be in WWE without Michael Cole.

If my parents didn't come to Canada in the '70s, I probably wouldn't be living my dream to be a WWE superstar.

When I came into WWE after Monday Night Wars, it wasn't my greatest time in the business... but they kept bringing me back.

I will always be thankful to WWE for letting me be the voice of SmackDown Live and bring it to the USA Network.

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.

WWE is a team. Out of the billions of people on this planet, the 75-80 men and women on the roster have the opportunity to call themselves WWE superstars. That's a very small percentage of people. They are in a position to be thankful.