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I've never been a politics guy in wrestling; I'm just someone who came out and worked.
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I love wrestling, and of course WWE is the main stage, but I'm happy to be with TNA.
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When you get to a certain level in wrestling, you got to be the ring general, and I've been in wrestling for a long time. And I can be a ring general against anybody.
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We had some rough times in TNA. We had some pay issues, and this and that, they were some other issues. But at that time, we were working harder than we ever worked. Even though, you know, we were being paid late and all, we worked harder than we worked before.
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I don't want to be bothered when I'm stretching. I need to focus.
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Some guys lock up when they hear the crowd. I feel the energy and take it with me into the fight. I've been in front of huge crowds and know to use that energy.
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Every time I go out there, I have something to prove. Something more, something different.
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Everybody wants to be a critic: a critic without the actual accolades to be a critic.
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MMA - for me, it was something that I needed to challenge myself.
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Working out is simple if you know what to do.
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I don't eat for pleasure; I eat for performance.
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Wrestling has done a lot for my life.
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The only way to survive is to get back up.
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I'm a father, and that is the absolute most important thing in my life.
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I've had no documented concussions.
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When you go into MMA you really can't do it half-assed. If you do it half-assed, then you're going to get annihilated. You're going to get destroyed out there: there are some really good fighters out there.
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Being in the wrestling business, it was a whole lot to deal with in a short amount of time. I went from amateur wrestling one minute to, the next minute, I'm traveling the world, and I'm on the road 250 days a year.
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A lot of people look at me as such a nice guy; they don't understand how dangerous I can actually be.
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Eric Young is phenomenal. Bobby Roode - every time I get in the ring with those guys, it's almost like magic.
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Anything can happen in a fight, and anything can happen in training.
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I can't even begin to entertain another wrestler's perception of me if they don't understand what my fans look for in me. I'm different; I'm different.
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I grew up kind of rough, without very much. So, I just want to work as hard as I can so my kids won't have to go through what I did.
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Money is not it for me. I love to travel and take care of my kids and be around my children.
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One thing you gotta take into consideration is that it's professional wrestling, and you know it going in. There's dangers to every profession, and our particular profession, concussions is one thing.