Shawn Michaels Quotes

I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I don't want to be in any box. I don't want to be one thing.

What is hardcore? Hardcore is not just being hardcore, hardcore is going in the ring and giving 100% of yourself. Hardcore is great fans.

Many times, you have to sacrifice the paycheck for doing what you love.

My wife asks me daily to leave wrestling, but I will not leave my favourite sport. I will train others.

Modelling isn't something I'm doing to prove people wrong. It's something I'm doing because it's what I want to do.

One of my great breaks is I have only done work I wanted to do.

I swore to my parents that no one would ever be able to buy me.

If I put wrestling boots and wrestling trunks on one last time - and I'm going to - it's going to be done by me and me only.

If I only wanted money and a comfortable life, I would have stayed in Ukraine.

I don't want to live my life to entertain other people. I have other things that I'd like to do.

I'm not going to go to a team that's losing. I think that would be disrespectful to me to trade me to somebody like that.

I love every minute of being inside that squared circle.

As top players, we earn a lot of money, but sometimes we pay a hefty price with our health. I would give away all the money to be healthy again, to be able to do my job. To do what I love: to play football.

Around the time that Girls Aloud was at its biggest, I was offered some huge acting roles in America. I decided to stay loyal to the band rather than take those other opportunities. Sometimes I wonder whether I should have just taken them.

I've always said that I'm an employee and I respect that status but I'm the type of guy who walks in the front door and I'll walk out the front door if it's not right.

There's nothing, nobody can pay me enough money and nobody can do enough for me to wear something I don't want.

All I know is professional wrestling and sports entertainment. This is all I know, and I wanted to give it everything that I had.

We fell in love with wrestling, and then we really wanted to break barriers, and we now get to do that because that's evolved beyond the ring.

Being your own person and standing for what you believe is a critical aspect of a good professional life.

Going through secondary school in Ireland, everyone's like, 'What are you gonna do when you finish school? Go to college? Study business? Study electronics?' I was like, 'Well I kinda love wrestling, so I don't see why I should want to study anything else except wrestling.' For me, it was a no brainer.

I never want to put my name on something that I don't love or wouldn't wear myself.

My lesson would be to not sell yourself to anybody else and stay true to yourself.

I've always been an independent wrestler at heart. You say I haven't had a 'home' but a company is not a home, a house is a home, a family is a home and I have that.

I've always loved what I do and I've always done what I wanted to do... in this business you have got to be yourself.

As long as I'm building and doing what I want to do, that's the only thing that matters.