Adam Cole

“The only thing cooler than having a dream and accomplishing that dream is getting to do it with your buddies.”

“If you sit around and wait for things to happen, they're not going to happen the way you want.”

“Seth Rollins was just leaving Ring Of Honor when I was coming in, so I've heard him say very nice things about me in interviews and stuff. I always say nice things about him because of that respect I have for him. I watched him when I was working the independents while he was wrestling at Ring Of Honor, and I used to be blown away by his work then.”

“The fans in the U.K. are so passionate and cool. It doesn't matter what company you work for or which part of the country you're in: everyone is super educated and respectful.”

“If I was to tell you that I don't want to have a Wrestlemania moment someday, I would 100% be lying to you.”

“When you're young, you feel like you're Superman and that you can't be hurt.”

“Fortunately for me, I discovered Ring of Honor. And I saw guys who were much smaller in stature but were putting on these amazing matches that I had never seen in WWE before. So I thought, at the very least, I'd love the chance to be able to wrestle in a company like that someday.”

“There are good wrestling journalists and bad wrestling journalists. That's for sure.”

“I would love, love, love, love a one-on-one match with Tanahashi, and I've never had one before. He's my all-time favorite New Japan guy. I think the guy's a rockstar. He's so cool, just in the ring and in person.”

“For me, I've been very lucky because of my relationship with Ring of Honor. I'm very close with everyone there, and that includes the guys that negotiate the contracts.”

“New York, specifically, has been very good to me throughout my wrestling career.”

“When you're an independent wrestler, committing a lot of time and effort into honing your craft as much as possible in as many different places as possible will catch the WWE's interest as far as the independent level goes.”

“I've been over to Japan a handful of times, and the fans there are some of the best. So supportive, so appreciative, genuinely excited to meet the wrestlers they watch.”

“There is nothing I love more than pro wrestling, so getting to do that all over the globe with some of the best out there is my personal heaven.”

“Shawn Michaels, to me and to so many people, is just the greatest in-ring performer of all time.”

“The first time I won the Ring of Honor World Championship, I was a kid - I was 23 years old.”

“Like me personally, I'm not a huge football guy, but I do watch the Super Bowl every year, and I get into it because it's exciting.”

“I remember, the first CZW show I went to was 'Best of the Best 7,' and I loved the entire tournament. So, for me, to three years later go and win the tournament was very, very cool and sort of a full-circle moment for me, and certainly something I'll never forget.”

“I was a 19 year old kid; I was 170 lbs soaking wet. I didn't have an identity. I didn't have a look. I didn't have the proper gear. I was just a young guy trying to be a wrestler. So, to be honest, WWE didn't even give me a second look.”

“For me, it's always been a financial kind of scenario. I was actually the first one who signed the 'exclusive to Ring of Honor' contract. I was the first guy who ever signed one of those contracts. That was tough for me because I had no one to talk to. I had no examples to go on. I was the guinea pig.”