Adam Cole

“I am stoked to go over to Japan and experience that culture.”

“I think the guys who have been on NXT and got to go to 'RAW' or 'SmackDown' got the full experience. That's what I want.”

“I'm really, really close with Kevin Owens. We talk practically every day. He was a guy who really, really helped me, both in Ring Of Honor and Pro Wrestling Guerrilla.”

“There are people who are unsure, and maybe their minds can be changed based on someone's work and accomplishments. Those people are the ones I'm interested in having stay tuned and watching for the rest of my career.”

“You don't make a statement unless you make noise.”

“So when you're following guys like Kyle O'Reilly and Bobby Fish or The Young Bucks or Jay Lethal or The Briscoe Brothers, and you're going out and trying to really stick out and have a very memorable, talked-about main event, or the match of the night, like the main event should be, it's really challenging.”

“Generally speaking, ROH championship matches are hard fought and grueling, and the fans are really into it. The ROH Championship means a lot to me for those reasons.”

“Ring of Honor is my home.”

“I've been really lucky over the years with my health. To me, one major surgery at 27 years old isn't so bad considering my line of work.”

“There are some times I'm really busy and other times I'm not, but I prefer to be really busy because I generally don't know what to do with myself when I'm not wrestling or on the road.”

“I always said to myself when I first started wrestling that I was gonna put absolutely everything into it - into becoming the absolute best pro wrestling that I could be.”

“I wanted to be a part of WWE and part of NXT first, as, if I went to 'Raw' or 'SmackDown' right away, I would always wonder what NXT would have been like.”

“Ring of Honor always has a great general idea of what they think I need, and generally, we agree pretty quickly on what I want to do.”

“Wrestling has gotten crazy lately in that guys can really make comfortable, good livings outside of WWE.”

“There are good wrestlers, great wrestlers, and special wrestlers.”

“My grandmother played a huge influence in my life and helped raise me, and she and my mother saw how much I loved pro wrestling and how much I wanted to go after it.”

“I'm not just the best in NXT; I'm not just the best in the WWE: I'm the best on the freaking planet.”

“I'm going to be with Ring of Honor for a while. So I'm focused on making ROH the best company it can be.”

“I had a tryout when I was, like, 19 and totally not prepared. I was 170 pounds with homemade gear. At that point, I realized how far I had to go to even get looked at. Then, when I was 22 or 23, I was much more prepared, and that second tryout went way better.”

“When you look back at the former Ring of Honor world champions, whether it be Daniel Bryan, CM Punk, Samoa Joe, Nigel McGuiness, the list goes on and on. These are the guys that built the lineage and importance of the Ring of Honor world championship.”