A biography for Eddie Kingstonhasn’t been written yet.
“I kicked out of my first wrestling school. Me and my old partner and a bunch of other friends, we were so desperate to keep learning, that we got our money together, we rented a ring and paid for Ted Dibiase to come and teach us.”
“ECW brought me back into pro wrestling where I found guys like Chris Jericho. ECW brought in Eddie Guerrero, Chris Benoit, Dean Malenko.”
“I was just angry cause of my childhood. You know what I mean? So I carried, so I took that anger with me everywhere I went. No matter what it was, so it was always heavy on me.”
“For us, in the ring, it's not just the technique that's the fundamentals, it's also for the people to understand what's good, what's bad.”
“The thing about wrestling in front of eight people in a bingo hall is that the spots still hurt. The chops still hurt. Your body still hurts the next day. But when you love wrestling, it doesn't matter. You do it for the pride and the respect of the business.”
“I always give 100 percent, even if I'm not 100 percent mentally or physically.”
“People say you deserve this and that, but no one deserves anything in life.”
“This whole, 'Don't talk about things. I gotta be manly.' I think I'm pretty manly, but I talk about what I go through because I'm trying to see tomorrow. I'm trying to make my mother proud.”
“Everything you do in life, you got to work for.”
“If you notice, when people start judging people, that gets me so mad. Because I was judged as a kid.”
“I love 'Game of Thrones.' Even though I hated the way the last two seasons ended, like many of the fandom, but I do love the 'GOT' world and stuff like the lore.”
“I don't hate on anybody who makes it and makes money. That doesn't bother me. It's who they are as people that bothers me.”
“For most of my life, I thought I was crazy.”
“My career before AEW was one step forward, four steps back.”
“I don't care if people do better than me with money and all that stuff. I will never hate on that because this is a business and we all got to try and make a living.”
“There's certain people in wrestling I do not like. Punk is one. Cesaro is another one, the big Swiss idiot in WWE.”
“If you ain't right with yourself, you ain't gonna help nobody or even help yourself.”
“Tracy Smothers was the first guy to believe in me and my old partner Blackjack. He was the first veteran that we met at the time who actually went out of his way and was so open, honest, and wanted to help us. He just loved pro wrestling. It was insane to me how much Tracy loved pro wrestling and he loved you if you were a wrestler.”
“As I got older as a teenager and even early 20s... I was so angry and I was just known as the fighter of the neighborhood.”
“I used to tell a lot of young guys on the independents, 'Don't be a mark or a fan for letters, be a mark and a fan for dollar signs,' so it didn't really matter where I was, as long as I get paid.”