Matt Hardy Quotes

I think The Miz can be a terrific heel. Miz enjoys being a heel, and I think he's actually very good at it. People look at him and want to hate him. That's what you want.

I'm the bad guy in WWE, which I find hilarious.

My whole idea, to me, is if you're a heel in wrestling, you should not having a band playing for when you come out and people will react in a positive way.

Lio Rush, this little guy is a perfect heel manager, updated for modern times.

I kind of watch a guy like Aleister Black go around, and he does whatever he wants. He Black Masses whoever he wants. He beats up security guards; he threatens general managers. Tommaso Ciampa does whatever he wants.

Everybody that's employed by 'WWE' - the biggest wrestling company in the world - should be good wrestlers able to tell good stories.

If you look back at people like The Rock there are times when earlier in his career he was doing heel stuff and he was so entertaining that people cheered for him. The natural thing to do was turn him babyface.

We weave our real lives into our WWE lives. We just look at what's happening in our lives, and what can we do? What's the most annoying - as a bad guy, as a villain, what's the thing we can do to make people hate us?

Daniel Bryan is a good athlete, but he's a better entertainer.

Without Roddy Piper, you can't have an equal good. He was a great villain and so believable. He wasn't playing a part ever.

I once said that I never wanted to be a good guy or the 'baby face,' as we call it in the wrestling business. But you know, it is what it is, and I'll be whatever they want me to be. At the end of the day, we work for the WWE fans.

I remember always loving the bad guy Shawn Michaels. Everyone else always hated when he played the bad guy, but there was just something about that character I connected with.

For me, I was really struggling because I was Scott Hall in the gym and Scott Hall in the grocery store and in the ring. Until I got a gimmick, a look, and got to be a character, that's when I started making strides. As Scott Hall, I didn't have a gimmick, so I didn't know what to do.

As a heel, you get to make twists and turns that really sell that character so that you can get that genuine kind of heat from people that want to hate you.

I was that 16-year-old who loved WWE, and I wanted to be a pro wrestler, but I didn't understand why I had to be the bad guy. I wanted to be like Jeff Hardy - I wanted to be like Rey Mysterio - but I was told I had to be the guy who screamed terrible things about America and attack people from behind.

You have a good side and bad side, real side. Then I put that on in the ring. My character, my personality in the ring, came from heel stuff.

What I do in WWE is essentially a lovable bad guy.

Before Dad passed, we talked so much about the Goldust character, what it grew into, and how much he was proud of it.

I always go back to my days in NXT and look at my feud with Samoa Joe. That was one of the best periods of growth for me.

Goldust is a singular character. I don't need to be put with anybody.

There are good wrestlers, great wrestlers, and special wrestlers.

Wrestling ultimately comes down to what happens when the bell rings, and it comes down to athleticism, storytelling, and characters - and what we're doing in 'Lucha Underground' is the highest-quality wrestling out there.

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

As Laurel Van Ness it's so much fun, and with that comes a creative outlet. You can be who you wanna be and be that particular character. I'm so thankful that Impact allows me to do that.

When Layla and I would do promos out in the arena, it was just the most-fun ever! People genuinely hate her.