Rashad Evans Quotes

My dad grew up wrestling. He knew Ken Shamrock, and I didn't know who he was at the time. So, he found out that Shamrock was in a gym in Reno, and he wanted me to go try a class with him. I tried it and fell in love the first day. Ken told me that I had potential in this sport, and he's the reason I kept at it.

If you're an aspiring wrestler, Bret Hart is usually at the top of the list for inspiration.

My mom was like, 'What did I do as a mom for you to want to become a wrestler?' They just didn't understand, and it's really hard to explain what made me love wrestling so much. There's something about it that made me fall in love, and ever since I laid my eyes on it, I knew I wanted to be a professional wrestler in the WWE.

After I stop wrestling, my dream is to open a wrestling academy, train students and produce more Geetas and Babitas!

I trained under Bill DeMott. I did a lot of my promo work with Dusty Rhodes.

When I first started wrestling I knew that I wanted to work as long and as hard as it took to be able to have a great match with anyone.

When you lose your passion to be a WWE Superstar, there's no point in going back.

My mind thinks in wrestling. As I'm thinking of things and my mind is being creative, it constantly keeps going back to wrestling. That's my inspiration, and to not be able to express that puts me in a spot where I almost don't know what to do with myself.

I was a true wrestler. I was a Division I national champion. I came into the business wanting one thing and one thing only, and that was to be the champion, and I wasn't going to let anybody stand in my way. I think there was one guy that had a problem with that, and that was Undertaker.

I have dreamed of being a champion in WWE, and there's nothing I won't do, no length I won't go to, in order to keep it that way.

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

In order to help the talented Indian wrestlers, I am always ready to talk to them and answer their queries.

People who are not in the wrestling business don't understand the struggles that all of us have to go through to really try to make it.

There are only so many wrestlers that can actually look and act the part, and do whatever they have to do in WWE, and that's a lesson to be learnt for a lot of wrestlers, you need to look the part. If you don't, there is very little chance of you making it here.

My uncle inspired me, and it was because of him that I become a wrestler, but besides him, the one Superstar that really caught my attention growing up as a kid was 'Macho Man' Randy Savage.

I've won every single event there is to win as a wrestler, and I still continue to come back every single year. The hard part for me is, 'OK, how long can you do this?'

Mostly the guys I worked with like wrestling AJ Styles, Jamie Noble, wrestling Chavo Guerrero, wrestling Rey Mysterio... As much as I try to be an individual or unique I can't deny the strong effect these guys have all had on me.

Lance Storm taught me everything that I know.

If I aspire to be the king of WWE, one day if I keep working at it, I will be the king of WWE.

I knew I wanted to be a wrestler, so I became the best wrestler in wrestling history.

I have kind of reached the pinnacle of wrestling.

To go from a small wrestling dojo to the Performance Center was just mind-blowing. The sheer scale - I didn't think anything like that could possibly exist.

Hopefully, one day - I want to make this big goal and be in the WWE Hall of Fame one day.

I was a huge fan of Rick Rude and Arn Anderson. There's many guys, many performers in the past who turned me into the sports entertainer I am today.

I've loved wrestling from the first moment I stepped between the ropes. Don't know where I'd be without it.