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If people will pay to see it, I'll fight anyone in any sport.
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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 have to start encouraging people to step out of their comfort zones and start doing new things. Anything anybody does new, there are a bunch of naysayers.
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I love what I do. I love the competition of fighting. And I love to wrestle.
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Wrestling has done a lot for my life.
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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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Everybody wants to be a critic: a critic without the actual accolades to be a critic.
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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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MMA - for me, it was something that I needed to challenge myself.
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I'm the type of person where, at the end of the game, if there's 10 seconds left, and you need to get somebody the ball, and you're behind by one, give me the ball. Get me the ball every single time.
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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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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 try to take care of myself as much as possible.
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If you want to go for the title, you go for the title, and you fight. You don't run away; you fight.
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When I was with WWE before, I was a big guy throwing people around - power moves. Then after that, when I left WWE, I was like, 'I still enjoy professional wrestling,' but some of the smaller guys look up at me and say, 'I don't wanna wrestle him. I don't wanna get thrown around by that guy.'
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Traveling is a part of the business. I think it's really the hardest part of the business because the wrestling part is the easy part - something I love and enjoy doing.
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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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Anything can happen in a fight, and anything can happen in training.
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Every time I go out there, I have something to prove. Something more, something different.
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If you play college sports, it's not like you have to - the next step in your career is another sport. You don't have to go into another sport. If you play college sports, you obviously graduated with a degree.
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The only way to survive is to get back up.
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There's no secret I love professional wrestling. It's not just the money all the time, I love wrestling, and I love fighting.
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A lot of people in MMA do part-time jobs.