Shinsuke Nakamura

“I felt good in the ring with John Cena.”

“WWE style is a much different platform than other wrestling companies. Each wrestler wrestles under strict rules that fans never know.”

“Around 2005, UFC offered me a chance to fight for them. But, at that moment, I was under contract with NJPW, and I decided to stay in pro-wrestling. It was a good opportunity, but I don't regret my choice.”

“A human being has a lot of sides, like a kind of diversity, so it's like a good side, a bad side, a crazy side, a normal side, like a man-ish side, a woman-ish side.”

“I want to be bigger than everybody.”

“A lot of people misunderstand what is Strong Style. Hard hits? Stiff? I don't think so. Strong Style is a kind of philosophy.”

“WWE, time-wise, is so strict.”

“My inspirations were 'Macho Man' Randy Savage and Andre the Giant. It was easy to understand their character.”

“When I was a kid, I loved Nintendo.”

“I feel as if I accomplished everything in Japan, so I wanted to challenge myself. I wanted something new, so I decided to come to WWE.”

“There are wrestlers in Japan. I think they think they can move to WWE, but it's not so easy.”

“I use every kind of emotion in my wrestling, so that's why people call me the 'King of Strong Style.'”

“I really want to face Roman Reigns again.”

“Before I came to WWE, they sent me samples of all of the entrance music, so I told them, 'I don't use this,' and 'I don't use this,' and, 'Please mix music with violin,' and they would make samples, and I would give my opinion, and this would go back and forth until, finally, they made 'The Rising Sun,' and I was really happy to have that.”

“I think a wrestler can say something from fighting, from wrestling.”

“With Michael Jackson, when he moved, it looked like a martial artist to me. He was quicker than other dancers, but he didn't have muscles; he was just quicker and looked more in control of gravity. He looked like a martial arts master, so I tried to steal body movement from him; that's why I imitate Michael Jackson a little bit.”

“I like to go surfing because I want to feel the ocean and experience nature, and nature fixes my balance, and this life is crazy sometimes, so it helps a wrestler's life because a wrestler's life is crazy sometimes.”

“I'm not, like, an English speaker, so I have confidence in my wrestling skills, also, like, body language, hand gestures, facial expressions. I put all of my emotion in my wrestling.”

“One of the reasons to come to the WWE was to wrestle at 'WrestleMania,' but to main-event 'WrestleMania?' Wow! I live for this.”

“I never think about pride. I don't think about stuff like that. I just enjoy the moment of my life. I think about just trying harder and continuing to find challenges to move toward.”