Roddy Piper Quotes

I started training when I was a senior in high school. I trained at the Combat Zone Wrestling Academy in South Philadelphia.

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

There should be more funding and support for young and upcoming wrestlers.

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

I used to be weak - as did all British fighters - with wrestling, because we don't have high school wrestling or college wrestling here.

When I got a little older, like, 10 or 11, my dad would run a training school every month, teaching people how to become wrestlers. I would get in the ring now and again and mess around with one of my brothers, and he'd teach me some stuff.

I'd love to teach Roman Reigns how to work. Just kidding.

All the time I was in college, I was going to wrestling school on the weekends.

I've always been fanatical about wrestling from a young age, growing up in Newcastle, and I have been fortunate to start training, get opportunities, and meet the right people at the right time.

When I started wrestling, I started only to get in shape. I found out that a wrestling school had opened in Ireland, and I wanted to go because I was hanging out with the wrong crowd and I wanted to turn my life around.

Unfortunately, wrestling in India doesn't have the same appeal for the youth that cricket and football do. For this reason, I want to also begin a series of wrestling academies across the country.

The WWE has a great school in Orlando and most of the trainers are of my upbringing.

I always wanted to wrestle, but when you're a kid, how do you do pro wrestling? For me, it seemed like the easiest way for me was to get into amateur wrestling and go that route because it was a place where I was allowed to go.

William Regal is one of my mentors, and I had been talking with him the whole time I have been away from WWE.

I don't think I'd be in WWE, and I wouldn't be in NXT, if it wasn't for my time in EVOLVE and Dragon Gate USA and things like that.

Dave Taylor, who was my tag partner in WWE, had a wrestling school close to where we both lived in Georgia for a while.

I watched wrestling for the first time on television while in Punjab, after which I started working seriously to become a good wrestler.

Lance Storm taught me everything that I know.

My brother was going to go to England to wrestle, but then we found out they were opening a wrestling school in Bray, County Wicklow. I thought, 'I'll go along and try that.'

As I am well versed in the art of free-style wrestling, I am keen to pass on this art to the coming generation.

The Performance Center in Orlando is the best place to go if you want to be a professional wrestler.

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

It's two guys in particular. Norman Smiley, he got his hands on me the day I walked in the door - started teaching me the fundamentals and teaching me things that I use - but Billy Gunn, that guy has helped me evolve more than anyone.

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.

I knew nothing about wrestling! Sometimes that's a great thing, and sometimes that really annoys people in this industry but that's the truth. I had no clue how to wrestle. I had to learn everything, absolutely everything. To start from the bottom.