Roderick Strong

“Once you start hearing a buzz about somebody, you want to check them out because you never know if, and, or when exactly, they may come to NXT because NXT obviously has the best talent in the world.”

“As a competitor, I always have to test myself on the biggest stages and against the best there is to offer.”

“My father is the reason I'm a wrestler today. He was trained by Jim 'The Anvil' Neidhart, and competed under the names Billy the Kid and Elvis Wesley on the Florida Independent scene.”

“I had been wrestling all over the world for 15 years, and I had been a mainstay in Ring of Honor for almost 13 years.”

“Austin Theory's young, super-talented and thinks he's the cat's meow. But I'm just going to punish him. It's going to be pretty funny to see his eyes after the first few minutes when he realizes that there's nowhere to run.”

“When I first got into wrestling, guys my size weren't really being signed to WWE like they are today. But deep down, I knew if I worked as hard as I possibly could, it would eventually happen. Timing is everything, that's for sure.”

“I've had to do some soul-searching at times. I reflect a lot, not on where I have been but where I want to go and how to get there.”

“I'm always the kid that lived in the trailer park in my mind. So I'm always constantly proving to myself that I'm better than that and that I will never go back to that.”

“I was with Ring of Honor for 13 years, and going to NXT and WWE was such a different environment.”

“I wrestled in Miami quite a few times. I was doing shows there before I really got my break, before going to the Northeast quite a bit.”

“I've been around wrestling since I was 12 years old and I really believe I was put on this planet to wrestle and that's what I love to do.”

“I've always prided myself in being someone a company can count on.”

“I was going to go back to doing the indies more often and possibly working more of a full-time schedule in Japan. If I didn't get the chance to go to WWE, that would have been a bummer to me, but I was just going to continue to do the best I could and continue my legacy.”

“The more I do it, the better I become, and that makes me a very dangerous man to the wrestling world.”

“People know what to expect from me. When it comes to Roderick Strong, you're going to get everything that I have in my being, and there will be fights that will be like no other fights of the night.”

“I believe my past setbacks are part of what it takes to build a champion. After all, how can you fully appreciate winning without knowing what it's like to lose?”

“I've said it continuously in NXT: There is no one who can outwork me.”

“Like a lot of the guys that I looked up to in the business, I wanted to travel the world and establish myself.”

“I'm always going to have to prove myself. That's the way my life has been, my career has been, and I'm OK with it. I've come to terms with it.”

“The one thing that I heard is that being dependable is priceless, and that's something I really put focus on.”