A biography for Jake Hagerhasn’t been written yet.
“I really like Bellator and them as a company and how they are run. It's a popular place for fighters to go to.”
“In addition to being gifted athletically and being the strongest guy in the room, Cesaro is very smart upstairs. He can go in the back and wrestle a match out in his head, then he'll add his Cesaro-isms in the ring to really make the match special. He knows exactly where to put things and make a match explosive.”
“Chris Jericho is on the Mount Rushmore of professional wrestling.”
“The level of difficulty in most areas of MMA is very high. It's a high learning curve. The footwork in boxing alone takes years to master. I will rely heavily on my amateur wrestling to get out of bad situations and take me from defense to offense. I'll try to dictate the fight on my terms.”
“A long time ago I learned how to shut my mouth, listen to my coaches and put trust in my coaches.”
“I relate everything to amateur wrestling, including the way I watch basketball and the way I watch football. My brain thinks as an amateur wrestler. That's who I am.”
“For me, the wins and losses in pro wrestling never mattered. The thing that matters is the time on television to tell that story. If you have a two-segment match on television, whether you win or lose, both people's brands win with a great match.”
“Toward the end of my career with WWE, I found myself in a comfort zone. Looking back at it now with a little more perspective, it was killing me.”
“We The People' is public domain, any American can use that.”
“My junior and senior year in college is when I first realized what MMA is and really started liking it. I went the other route - I went into the entertainment field and started wrestling professionally, and I did that for about 11 years.”
“I think it's surprising for a lot of people to see Jack Swagger crossover to MMA because they know Jack Swagger more than they know Jake Hager.”
“As cool as Jack Swagger was, he felt choreographed.”
“When you get in the cage with me, you'd better be ready to go 35 minutes, not just 15.”
“When you step in front of a camera, and everybody is going to have their hyped-up personality, everyone is going to have the character they are trying to play.”
“Your character has to be an extension of yourself, and you got to be comfortable in it. Otherwise, people are going to see right through it. They're going to see that you're acting or that you're playing wrestling.”
“Big risk means big reward. I want that.”
“To be successful in WWE, you have to love what you do. You have to want to steal the show every time you go out.”
“Cesaro should be world champ. I'm not afraid to say it, Cesaro is my favorite wrestler.”
“I look like a winner, I smell like a winner, so why not put it on the big screen?”
“Pro wrestling is all about staying fresh.”