A biography for Jake Hagerhasn’t been written yet.
“I've always been a big fan of Hollywood.”
“I'm making MMA great again for pro wrestlers.”
“Entertainment is a big part of MMA and it is unique.”
“When I look in the mirror, I'm a husband and a father first.”
“Coming to WWE, where they treat the talent a certain way, I really gravitated toward Bellator because you saw the trend in fighters wanting to go over there because they were getting better deals and getting more freedom with it.”
“You know, there's not a lot of guys who don't like Jack Swagger. It's a good problem to have.”
“I'm a competitor. I had that reputation in my time at the WWE. I would walk into a locker room, start wrestling with someone, and all I'd hear is, 'There goes Swagger again.'”
“I like to think of pro wrestling as an art, so we're artists.”
“I would love to fight Fedor Emelianenko in Russia, maybe we can make that happen.”
“From the beginning, make no mistakes, I'm a prizefighter and doing this for the money. Money first. And then championships.”
“To be able to change from being essentially a bad guy into a really hot babyface overnight is very hard to do.”
“I've been a competitor all my life.”
“I need to wrestle, I need to compete.”
“AEW loves what I'm doing with Bellator and Bellator loves what I'm doing with AEW.”
“If I just keep my head down and I keep working hard, that's just what I do.”
“Let's come together, let the people stop fighting each other, but let them fight in the octagon.”
“When you get to go out and perform on a great pro wrestling show, it's awesome. It's hard not to enjoy it.”
“The nerves with WWE performance is more the live television angles because we have time limits and have storylines we want to get through in that time. You're going to forget a lot about the spots.”
“Once you're an amateur wrestler, you're always an amateur wrestler.”
“The more you boo me the better I'm going to wrestle. You don't like me? So what. It's a lot of fun to work like that and wrestle with that mindset.”