Cody Rhodes Quotes

I went to school to be an actor in Canada and realized I hated auditions once I left, which is a huge problem if you want to get a part.

I left WWE because I was utterly miserable wrestling at the time and I needed to get away from the business.

When I was with WWE before, I was a big guy throwing people around - power moves. Then after that, when I left WWE, I was like, 'I still enjoy professional wrestling,' but some of the smaller guys look up at me and say, 'I don't wanna wrestle him. I don't wanna get thrown around by that guy.'

Even before I became a WWE Superstar, I was told I was never going to make it because I wasn't big enough. You know what I mean? I wasn't strong enough, I wasn't 6 foot 8.

I do not see Dean Ambrose leaving WWE to go somewhere else.

Guys like Jack Lanza, Pat Patterson, Bruce Pritchard, Tom Pritchard - those guys all helped me get a tryout. And I'd never been in the ring, so they went on a lot of faith and signed me and thought that they could help mold me into a WWE superstar. And now I'm glad they did, because that was a big turning point in my life.

I kept my teaching certificate active while I was with WWE. It definitely wouldn't be something that I'd mind going back to.

I was a writer before I was a wrestler when I was in the WWE.

As WWE Superstars, we want to have confidence and stand strong in the ring.

I could never see myself getting in a ring and wrestling Zack Ryder.

I can't say that I never will or would go back to the WWE. I honestly never intended on leaving until I retired. However we don't choose our destiny. We just live it.

Acting in soaps proved a health hazard to me and I withdrew.

I don't really pursue acting. I jokingly say that I retired right at the same time people stopped hiring me, but I really don't think I'm very good at it, and I'm not really interested in it anymore as an adult.

WWE asked me to be a coach 3 times before I left.

I graduated high school a year early and moved to Los Angeles to go to acting school, which is hilarious.

When I walked down the ramp and stood in the ring, I made other big guys look small.

Ever since I was a little kid the only thing I've ever wanted to do was be in the WWE, and not just be on the roster but to be a champion.

I watched WWE as a child. I was a fan.

I started watching wrestling when I was eight, and I only watched the WWE as a kid.

I had pretty much accepted the fact I was going to be a stay-at-home mom and do my other adventures in life. I thought coming back to the WWE was out of the cards for me.

In the ring, I'm probably the strongest WWE superstar.

I'm 6-foot-4 and 240 pounds, which is average size in WWE, but in the world of television and movies, it's huge.

When I was 11 years old, I started watching WWE.

From the first day I got signed to WWE, being the champion was always my number one goal, and after years of consistent hard work both mentally and physically, ups and downs, I was finally in that moment I had dreamt and thought about so much!

Timing is everything in wrestling and when I was with the WWE it just wasn't the right time. I was unhappy and I decided to look for opportunities elsewhere.