Lana Quotes

My inspirations were 'Macho Man' Randy Savage and Andre the Giant. It was easy to understand their character.

You have to think about the WWE as soap operas.

It was acting, and WWE is the longest-running weekly episodic program in television. Sure, there are story lines that are better than others.

WWE is a company that produces fiction. It's a soap opera that runs 52 weeks a year without reruns.

The WWE also embraced more of a reality-based approach to wrestling a year or two after I established it. I knew, deep down inside, were it came from. The WWE did it better than I did, and they're still here, and I'm not, but nonetheless - I knew where it came from.

WWE is such a universal form of entertainment. I believe that you can watch WWE in mute and still know what is going on.

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.

Hopefully, when people watch 'Lucha Underground' and WWE, Ring of Honor, New Japan, AAA, and any other promotion out there, they fall in love with pro wrestling. Pro wrestling, as it affects pop culture, is bigger than any one promotion.

You've got some very unique individuals in the WWE, and it's a completely different nexus on 'SmackDown' than it is on 'Raw.'

Amateur wrestling was never considered a big box office draw because they're really competing but they're not getting a chance to call each other 16 kinds of names before the fight to get you interested.

People love to be entertained and love the different storylines that go on in pro wrestling.

Flair, Dusty Rhodes, Shawn Michaels, The NWO, The Invasion, the wild stories, and the Attitude Era. All the crazy stories - you love them, and you get addicted to them and the lifestyle. But you have to separate them and toe the line and separate yourself from what is real and what is not.

It's kind of beating a dead horse if you're talking about going out and saying wrestling's fake, or this or that. People don't want to hear that. They want to hear, they wanted to find an inside story.

I affirmatively have watched WWE programming my whole entire life!

I have a lot of respect for the folks over at WWE, and I have a ton of respect for what they've accomplished within the industry.

People can say what they want about WWE. Paul Levesque, Vince McMahon, Michael Cole - they all gave me another life by bringing me back to call NXT. That's where I should have been in the beginning.

People always talk about my heel/face turns. One of the jokes in America is I've had more turns than NASCAR.

You just can't compare the WWE to anything else when it comes to sports entertainment. There is nothing like the WWE, nothing like this machine I am working for and I'm proud to work for.

I sent away to America for 'The Inside Secrets of Wrestling' that Percy Pringle and Dennis Brent wrote, and Volume 1 told me to keep kayfabe of the book. So I used to keep it in a briefcase, and I'd go to school every day, and everyone would talk about wrestling, and they didn't know what was going on, but I knew what was going on.

I might be the only guy in WWE who isn't acting ever.

One of the only things that bothered me with WWE and being on every week was blowing off so many great storylines so fast, just out of necessity.

Wrestling has become its own thing separate from what it was in the past and now when people think of pro wrestlers they don't think of Hulk Hogan, they're thinking of guys like me.

As a kid, growing up, my heroes all had the Intercontinental Championship. Ultimate Warrior, Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels, Mr. Perfect, Ric Rude, all of them. And they were the people I looked up to and wanted to be like.

Obviously, you know, when you talk about dream matches and you talk about the WWE, you can't not mention John Cena.

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