A biography for Jake Hagerhasn’t been written yet.
“All I want to do is go out there and win. That's all that is important to me.”
“Luckily, I feel like I was a late bloomer as far as my body developing. I really didn't start developing until I was like 18, 19, 20 years old.”
“I've been wrestling since I was 4 years old, so I have over 30 years in some form of wrestling, non-stop in my life. For me, it's who I am.”
“A lot of great fighters were amateur wrestlers first and you can study them on film to see how they adapted the techniques.”
“I was never the best athlete, but I knew how to be coached and I knew how to work hard at it.”
“I'm a conservative. I voted for Donald Trump and back in 2016 everybody was talking about, 'Oh my God, here's another TV character trying to run for the presidency.' They didn't really take him seriously.”
“Anyone that holds a championship you are on a list of a very few people that have had that special honor, and it is really incredible to say that no matter what you say about my wrestling career I was a World Heavyweight Champion and you can't take that away from me.”
“In my first fight, I acknowledged it. I'm a professional wrestler, this is who I am, who you know me as. But guess what, I've also been wrestling since I was 5 years old - real wrestling - amateur wrestling, Olympic wrestling.”
“If you go back and look at WWE Magazine, they asked me when I was going to win my first world championship and I told them WrestleMania XXVI, so I was only a couple days off.”
“Wrestling for wrestling fans is an honor.”
“All Elite Wrestling completely changes the entire landscape of pro wrestling.”
“Really, my family is my strength and I realize that and I am leaning on it.”
“When I was leaving college, getting ready to graduate with a degree in finance, I had job interviews for months and months - and nothing really was moving like a real opportunity. Meanwhile, a lot of my wrestling teammates at Oklahoma had started getting into MMA training.”
“People want to see fighters who can put on a little show and then back it up. Hopefully I can do both of those things.”
“That's one thing I found out about myself when I left WWE: I'm that guy that needs to be pushed full throttle. That's when you're gonna get the best out of me.”
“Absolutely, it's awesome to be a pro wrestler.”
“If you speak pro wrestling or MMA, you almost speak any language.”
“WWE really likes to keep its fans on the edge of their seats and on their toes.”
“Whether you speak English, Spanish, Chinese, Russian, everybody can speak wrestling and it's really cool to go to different cultures and societies and see how the littlest things we do as performers influence the biggest things.”