By the time I was 15 and I stepped in the high school gym, I was just stronger than everybody.

Time management is the key. Although it seems hectic, as long as you manage your time properly you can get everything done.

You're dressed up like the flag, somebody get him a pole! Oh, no, no, no, I know how you can get one. Go on a date, with Michael Cole.

I don't play a character. It's totally just an extension of myself.

A man's character is not judged after he celebrates a victory, but by what he does when his back is against the wall.

My advice to young people in the wrestling business would be to repeat such questions to yourself as: "How am I standing out? How am I getting recognized? How am I getting over?" And if you don't have definitive answers for doing those things, you are doing it wrong. It is, essentially, on them. There is no right way to do it, and that's one of the great things about this business because you can be creative. People who say they have it figured out are wrong.

... there's been a lot of balls that have been pounding in that end zone.