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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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With wrestling, we're still athletes. I train like we're an athlete as opposed to a body builder. Some people still have that body-builder mentality. But not from me. I do a lot of agility work and stuff like that.
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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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I'm a father, and that is the absolute most important thing in my life.
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Every time I go out there, I have something to prove. Something more, something different.
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MMA - for me, it was something that I needed to challenge myself.
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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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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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Working out is simple if you know what to do.
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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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Everybody wants to be a critic: a critic without the actual accolades to be a critic.
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I don't want to be bothered when I'm stretching. I need to focus.
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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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Wrestling has done a lot for my life.
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I've had no documented concussions.
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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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The only way to survive is to get back up.
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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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My philosophy is, if you work as hard as you can, you give yourself as many opportunities as you can to be successful and lucky.
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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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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.
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I don't spoil myself on extravagant cars or spending money on jewelry. So I save a lot of the money I have.
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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.