Kenny Omega Quotes

When you get down to it, wrestling is wrestling, and when you get in the ring and start performing, it's up to you and the guy you're in there with to do it and perform it.

One element of wrestling that I know what I grew up with we put a lot of emphasis towards was the takedown. But, you could win an Olympic championship and never score a takedown, and I don't know if MMA fans are even aware of that.

I don't know how to do takedowns.

My favorite wrestler growing up was Dean Malenko. He was a very technical wrestler, and when I trained with Shawn Michaels, he wasn't that kind of a technical wrestler. So, when I finally met Regal in 2001, he was that kind of a wrestler, and all of a sudden, I could ask him things, and he would know what I was talking about and how to do it.

A lot of U.K. wrestlers are very good at chain wrestling, telling a story through holds, while American wrestling is a little more flashy, with lots of high-spots.

Wrestling has taken me on a ride and a love affair. I absolutely enjoy wrestling.

I'm a great defensive wrestler.

Some guys can do more talking in the ring, other guys do posing, body building, whatever the hell they do in the ring. But I don't have the big body, and I'm not the big smooth talker, but I can get in the ring and wrestle.

I never was an amateur wrestler.

We take pride in making our Knockouts Division about wrestling, not about looking pretty.

Wrestlers in the U.S.A. are very aggressive. All they want to do is attack, but they'll make mistakes.

After watching wrestling for 20 years, I thought I had enough confidence to do it. There were no wrestling schools at the time.

I consider myself more of a wrestler than a sports entertainer.

So I don't think one type of wrestling is right and one type of wrestling is wrong, and I've used that ability to unlearn what I've done and really go back and get back in touch with that Dragon Gate style since now there's a lot of guys that can work with that.

Wrestlers tend to do good in MMA because they tend to be just some tough guys. It's not a karate situation where they grew up their whole life punching the air; in a wrestling situation, you grab a hold of another human being every day.

My view on wrestling in MMA is changed a lot since I started really doing it.

I have wrestling. Yes, I do; my background is wrestling. I have knockout power. Just because I don't go out there and use it all, you don't have to use it all to win fights.

I'm not the strongest, I'm not this amazing wrestler, but I believe the skills I've honed over a period of time - my stand up, my takedown defence, the way I position myself on the ground - I just believe I can be the full package.

One person that I really love to wrestle again is AR Fox and Brian Cage again too because those are two of my most favorite matches.

In wrestling, when I was in high school, my coach said you should be able to hit every single move from any position. So, arm drag to double-leg, snap-down to double-leg. You should be able to hit a move from anywhere, so with my armbar, I can essentially hit it from any position because it's my favorite submission.

In the ring-wise, I've learned a lot from working with Bayley.

One week, you're facing Daniel Bryan, and next week, you're teaming with AJ Styles. You're in the ring with the best in the world. Part of me wants to tell myself they don't just put anybody in the ring with them. I obviously want to be as good as them, and I feel like I can be and I can hang with them.

Here are the five guys I learned the business from: Barry Windham, Ricky Steamboat, Arn Anderson, Larry Zbyszko, and Bobby Eaton. Those guys taught me how to do everything in the ring. I learned so much from each of them.

To me, if people think about wrestling, they think about elbow drops, body slams, and stringing somebody in the circle.

Wrestling is different than MMA or boxing or really any other contact sport in that you can't really draw along an opponent.