Sami Zayn

“I just want to win the world title; I don't want to be a guy that Vince McMahon looks at and says, 'Never. We can't.'”

“As a kid growing up in Montreal, I wanted to become either a hockey player or a wrestler. Since my family didn't have a lot of money, my parents never put me in a hockey league because it was so expensive.”

“That's the spirit of America, right? Anybody from any background can make it anywhere with enough hard work.”

“You have to stand by your beliefs.”

“I don't think it really serves to make the world a better place, when you're only concerned about yourself.”

“The more work you put in, and the more you constantly and consistently give good performances against good opponents and constantly exceed people's expectations, the more you really endear yourself to the crowd. That's how your career takes off - it's just consistency and time.”

“It's just so weird how you get so used to what we do: I could go in there and wrestle main events on Live Events for 25-30 minutes, but I couldn't really get the sheets off me in bed. It's weird how that works. Your body just adapts.”

“I always wanted to be a wrestler when I grew up.”

“If you work really hard at something for a really, really long time, you do it well. Eventually, somebody will notice.”

“Any time I'm donating to charity, I feel it's very daunting.”

“The Hardys were a huge influence on me becoming a wrestler. Not so much the moves themselves, but the concepts behind the moves: trying to be innovative and just being exciting.”

“I've worked in front of crowds of two hundred that sounded like a thousand, and I've worked in front of crowds of five thousand that sounded like two hundred. It really varies with the energy level with any given crowd on any given night.”