Shawn Spears Quotes

The Rhodes in WWE have a wonderful history. I'm glad they let me go. They are the house that built me, and you never know - I might be there again one day.

I've been doing this close to 19 years now, and I always dreamed of being in the WWE.

Austin Aries, A.J. Styles, and Samoa Joe are all super talented, and all three of them have earned everything they've gotten.

I have had the greatest wrestling career in the history of pro wrestling.

I want to be on 'SmackDown' because it has AJ Styles, Randy Orton, and John Cena - a lot of dream matches I can do.

I'll never forget the reaction the WWE Universe gave me at 'WrestleMania 33' and my return - it was truly one of the greatest moments of my career.

There's a lot of goals I've set in the WWE that I want to accomplish. I'm always setting goals for myself, and someday I want to be in the Hall of Fame.

Obviously, you know, when you talk about dream matches and you talk about the WWE, you can't not mention John Cena.

When you look back on my career, my in-ring work has been watched across the world.

Being able to be the guy that took down The Shield, there were a lot of people in the locker room who wish they could have said that.

I just wanted to stay Harley Race in the wrestling world, worldwide, and that is what I did for a long time.

When Terry Funk, Harley Race had world titles, it meant more.

I've been part of so many pay-per-views, and I've been in the ring with John Cena and Dean Ambrose and Randy Orton and Chris Jericho and Roman Reigns... all the top names. And I've been Intercontinental champion twice.

A big reason why I signed with WWE in the first place was because my son wanted to see me wrestle in WWE, and he wanted to see me wrestle John Cena.

I would have to say Ric Flair and Randy Savage were two of my favorite guys to work with; I had some good main-event type matches with both.

Back in the early days of WWE, I remember doing 20 interviews every Tuesday, one right after the other on different topics.

There are many Superstars - past and present - I would love to get in the Swing.

Pro wrestling has always been ingrained into American culture. It was one of the first things that was ever on television, so everybody watched it. Countless people tell me, 'I got into wrestling because my grandfather watched it.' It was always there.

The Attitude Era was so great because you had the best collection of superstars of any one time period. You had The Rock, Stone Cold, Undertaker, Mick Foley.

Everything in the business is based around the idea of a World Championship. WWE, World Heavyweight Championship, Universal Title, the ROH Title, or the IWGP Title - they are all World Championships. The best of the best.

Hogan had the same match every night for years, and so did Warrior. They didn't tell great stories, to be honest.

The Hardcore Championship is still probably my favorite title of all time.

When I was nine years old and dreamed of being a pro wrestler, the thing I was most fascinated by was how much love the wrestlers got.

I try to live under a rock when it comes to WWE, but you can't avoid seeing your Twitter feed, people talking about Jinder Mahal wrestling Randy Orton at a pay-per-view.

As great as Hulk Hogan was, he still wasn't that great a worker.