A biography for Darby Allinhasn’t been written yet.
“Dude, it's so hard to balance out pro wrestling and skating.”
“When I started, my first week in wrestling, I was told I needed to be a character. Someone said I should be a gas station attendant. I was like, 'What? No.' There are so many different directions you can go in wrestling, but the one way you should is to follow your heart.”
“That's my goal with wrestling, is to have people be like, 'Yo, that guy. He's different. He doesn't embody what people think wrestling's about.'”
“Living with what-if is probably the worst feeling ever.”
“Nobody in wrestling really spoke to me as a human, but I was a huge admirer of guys like Sting, their body of work, guys like Mick Foley. Dudes who were artistically and physically pushing the limits of what wrestling is.”
“I wrestled in Mexico a few times and then I felt like everything that made me special was lost when I was in Mexico because the art of selling goes out the window.”
“Some people need to be led because not everybody has it within them. The people that have it within them, and you can sense that they have it, just let them loose.”
“To me, I feel like a lot of a people in wrestling, like, 'What's your character?,' 'I'm not scared of anything,' and then in real life, they're like, 'Please don't hurt me.'”
“There's nowhere I'm not willing to go to physically and mentally to prove a point.”
“It means the world to have anyone call you a hero.”
“I want to offend people.”
“If you're not willing to step up, your game isn't on point then.”
“I just want to go out there and speak my mind on things.”
“My money is in wrestling David and Goliath matches.”
“It sounds corny, but I don't know what my life would be like without AEW... This place lets me be me in the ring and outside of it. It's crazy.”
“I love learning from the best.”
“I feel like when you tell people's real-life stories prior to them getting introduced to the audience, people have that connection, kind of have that feeling for them.”
“I'm very calculated with what I do.”
“Getting thrown through the air or through a table? It gets me going, it's a good time.”
“I think every time I go into a coffin match the coffin's gonna be different.”