Baron Corbin

“When you have an icon that wants you to succeed, it's awesome.”

“When I left NXT, I was kind of mad that I was never NXT champ, so when I got to the main roster, that was my first goal.”

“When I won the United States Championship at Hell in a Cell, it was awesome. It was my first championship ever in WWE, so it's a really cool moment for me.”

“It was great to get rid of the long hair. It's such a pain that, if you look at it, it's always wet when guys wrestle: you dump gallons of conditioner in it to keep it wet so you're not choking on it. You have all kinds of stuff in it, and just maintaining it is a lot of work.”

“There were definitely some days at training camp that I got in fistfights.”

“In college, practice is draggin'. Coach goes, 'Oh, hey, go on over there and start a fight with one of the linebackers.' Okay. So I'll go and start a fight with one of the linebackers... It's just an attitude that really developed in me, and now we just amplify it times 100 and make sure everybody understands what I do and what I'm about.”

“One time, I was practicing against the Tennessee Titans, and one of their defensive linemen took a cheap shot at our running back, so I planted him.”

“I am extremely tough and extremely physical, and that is because my father taught me to be tough, physical, and not to take no for an answer.”

“You look at me: you see the tattoos, and I ride a motorcycle.”

“For me, growing up, I'd always been a part of team sports, except for when I was boxing.”

“People in athletics thrive on competition. That's what makes you better.”

“Growing up, I idolized Big Boss Man and Bam Bam Bigelow just because they were big guys who could move and were tough. I felt like they both rode motorcycles. And Bam Bam had his head tattooed. Those are the guys who really got me into wrestling.”

“End of Days is a lot of impact; it makes people open their eyes. It makes a statement.”

“Billy Gunn, Bill DeMott, and Dusty Rhodes all helped me find myself and how to express it to people so they understand.”

“The atmosphere we get with NXT and NXT fans, they're a die-hard group. They care deeply about NXT.”

“If I walk into a room, and nobody knows who I am, and they've never seen wrestling a day in their life, I want everybody in that room to look at me and go, 'That guy does something. He is somebody important.'”

“I'm 6'8'', 280 pounds, and I feel like I move like I'm 5'10'' and 200.”

“That's what Twitter is: a very negative place.”

“I think 'Raw' is complacent in the fact that 'Raw's' been the flagship of WWE. 'Smackdown' wants to be number one.”

“I was in the top 1 percent of football players. Indie guys are in the bottom 95 percent of wrestlers.”