Johnny Gargano

“Wins and championships - I want it all. I want there to be no doubt who I am. I want there to be no doubt that I'm a winner.”

“I'm walking around our apartment right now, and I see tons of action figures everywhere. There's Spider-Man stuff, old 1996 WWF figures, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Marvel stuff.”

“I'm kind of a smaller guy in my given profession, and people always told me I'm too small, so I know how it feels to have people tell you you'll never be anything.”

“I am not the best high-flyer or technical wrestler. What I do have is a work ethic that can't be beat.”

“I want my lasting legacy to be that I was a good wrestler but a better person. I want people to remember me as a good dude. I think that's very important.”

“I'm a humungous Browns fan. My 30th birthday was actually at the Browns' stadium.”

“I've had some of my best matches in front of 50 people in bingo halls and VFW halls and things like that.”

“Anything nerd-wise, I have probably collected it, and it's displayed in our apartment.”

“It started with Dragon Gate USA, where I started as a guy on the pre-show and wasn't promised anything. I kept coming and doing what I do and ended up on the main show and eventually won their championship.”

“I get a lot of comparisons to Daniel Bryan, and trust me, I am flattered by all of them because we mentioned New Orleans and WrestleMania; I watched it at home and watched Daniel Bryan in the main event of WrestleMania achieve his dreams.”

“The best part of watching any show is that feeling of being sucked in. If I'm watching 'Breaking Bad,' there is something compelling about Walter White.”

“I always question whether people are going to know who I am, and I'm always blown away by the love and reaction I receive.”

“You can never control injuries. Accidents happen; that's just how things go.”

“We're all out to set our best foot forward and to make NXT the best we possibly can, but at the end of the day, we all want to have the best match.”

“When I was Cedrick Von Haussen, the champion of Liechtenstein, I was only 18 years old. I was super, duper young. I started traveling around for wrestling when I was 16, so I had only been wrestling a few years at that point.”

“I'd love for it to go away and for people not to see NXT as a downgrade. I definitely don't think it is.”

“It's always fascinating to me and blows my mind whenever I'm in a video game because I am such a big video game fan at heart.”

“For the longest time, I was horrified to hear the word 'failure,' but I've come to realize that we all fail. It's just a part of life. We all fall. It's how you rebound that shows the type of person you are.”

“I kind of watch a guy like Aleister Black go around, and he does whatever he wants. He Black Masses whoever he wants. He beats up security guards; he threatens general managers. Tommaso Ciampa does whatever he wants.”

“It's a blessing and a curse, 'cause I'm never satisfied, so I continually want to outdo myself. But still, I'm never happy.”