Eddie Kingston

“I've been out of my mind since before I can remember.”

“I believe God sent my niece and nephew to me not to stop wrestling because he knew good things were gonna happen.”

“The goal for me has always to be a champion. Whether it's me and Mox as a tag team, the TNT championship, or the big one, the grandaddy of them all - the goal has always been to be the top man.”

“I learned about racism in like second grade. By sixth, seventh grade I was like well, next person who makes fun of me I'm gonna start swinging.”

“We're in this to be champions and not to be the opening act. Not to be a mid-carder.”

“I like doing the independents still. Because without the independents, I would've went nuts years ago.”

“I've had things broken before, broken bones heal, I'll be alright.”

“My whole thing with CHIKARA is that I love that it's PG, sometimes G even. It's for kids. The characters are for kids.”

“When people tell you they always believed something was going to happen, I think they're lying.”

“You're going to get everything you want when you come to an AEW show. You're going to get all different flavors of ice cream.”

“Bad days, man, are when you wake up and you just don't want to do anything. And it's not out of laziness. It's just your mentally in your own head and you start beating yourself up before you even take the first step out of bed. It's one of the weirdest feelings I can describe to people.”

“The chip on my shoulder was just because I was a mixed-race kid. That was it. That's where that chip comes from. So whatever I did in my life, whether it was pro wrestling, fixing cars, or doing iron working, I had a chip because of that.”

“Of the guys I'd like to fight, No.1 is Jun Akiyama.”

“You see me on TV or you see me wrestling, it doesn't mean that I don't go through what everyone else goes through.”

“I don't really get to go out a lot because when I'm home from the road, I am home. I do not want to move from my couch.”

“Accepting love is very hard. Giving out love is easy.”

“The old way, we never told a booker or a promoter anything. We didn't tell them when we were hurt. We'd be there with a broken ankle and still going to work, tape it up and go because we were scared of losing a job or a spot.”

“My mother made the call. She said I would be happier in AEW than WWE, so I said, 'OK, that's where I'll go.'”

“In third grade, a mom told her daughter not to hang out with me because I'm going to be like my uncles.”

“It always felt like I had a weight on my chest for like, half my life. Cause I just carried all this anger from like, second grade till now, you know what I mean?”