Eli Drake

“Wrestling doesn't know what it is. I feel that wrestling has an identity crisis and what I mean by that is, we're almost meant to portray these characters 24 hours a day, but that's kind of a ridiculous, stupid thing.”

“But I've been day trading stocks and I've been doing it pretty successfully.”

“The business that I fell in love with was big, strong, masculine men who looked like they were fighting. They all had characters and they all could. even the worst promo guys were good.”

“The biggest advertising dollars are coming from television - not to mention there's just a certain 'aura', there's a certain feeling about being on TV where it still is special to a lot of people.”

“I was one of the top paid guys at Impact, thankfully. With that money, I invested a bunch of it and I've been taking classes on learning day trading with stocks.”

“Growing up when I was watching wrestling, if a guy couldn't talk, I didn't care about him. You could have the fanciest moves and be the greatest wrestler if all time, but if you didn't have a compelling character and you couldn't talk, I didn't care.”

“Comedy and silliness has a place in wrestling, but there's still gotta be some level of believability.”

“If you look at WWE 1998-99, was it over the top? Sure it was, but they were still doing well. If you get into 2004-05, you've got HLA, Katie Vick and things like that - that's where it just gets dumb.”

“I have this personality, where I'm a natural introvert in my personal life, but when you give me a camera and microphone, I have a so much to say.”

“You're running a business, and at the end of the day, if you're running a business, you've got to make money.”