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“I think I'm a very passionate person who's always strong in my convictions.”
“One of the things people always ask me is, isn't it expensive to eat healthy or vegan? It can be, but isn't it expensive to live in a nice house or drive a nice car or wear nice clothes?”
“In my opinion nobody owns the patent on the art form of professional wrestling and the way it does its business.”
“The connector part of the mustache to the beard wasn't always really strong for me. That's kind of how it morphed, and that's kind of how my beard comes in.”
“Anything that is history making, then of course you want to be a part of it.”
“At the end of the day all I've ever asked for is to be allowed to succeed and fail on my own merits. Not based on what somebody else wants me to do or thinks I should do. Or, what they want me to say or what they think I should say.”
“I competed at 'WrestleMania 33,' and I'm telling you, leading up to what should have been the biggest moment of my life, I couldn't find an ounce of joy.”
“I like nice food. Some people like cars, nice clothes, a nice house, and I like that stuff, but I like nice foods.”
“Nobody walks through life as a pure babyface per se or a pure heel, we all have shades of grey, and there's some days we're a little better than others, and some days we're a little more ornery. And I think that I just embody that.”
“I'm someone who likes to question things that are put in front of me, I like to think I'm someone who asks 'why sir?' not a 'yes sir.'”
“The more you control where your food comes from instead of relying on restaurants, fast food joints, convenience stores and other processed sources, the better off you're going to be.”
“I was thankful that TNA saw the potential in me and put me in a position to fulfill something like winning the World Heavyweight Championship.”
“Eveybody likes to speculate that me and Austin Starr are somehow related. I always say that that guy never had a tattoo.”
“I've always been a big believer in myself and that if you give me an opportunity I am going to make the most of it.”
“Chris Jericho is a guy who I grew up really appreciating what he did in the ring.”
“I figure no matter what interview I do, the real good 'journalists' are going to find the completely irrelevant quotes that will drum up some controversy and stick it on their page to get some clicks and completely miss the real context of what the interview is about. That's what we do nowadays and call it 'journalism.'”
“What the general public doesn't always understand is that wrestlers often only have hours to put things together, not days or weeks, except in certain cases.”
“I was the X-Division champion and competing against guys mostly my size, and I dominated them.”
“Right before I came back to TNA, I had made the decision to just sort of step away from wrestling. Therefore I really walked into TNA holding nothing back and let the chips fall where they fell.”
“As far as being the longest-reigning X Division champion, it's a pretty remarkable achievement, due to all the men who have held it over the years.”