Rusev Quotes

I love Vince McMahon. He came up with the Kurt Angle character. He ran with it, and then I was able to run with it. I thank him for the opportunity he gave me. Vince McMahon was one of my best friends, period.

It's the WWE; it's Vince McMahon's show. He lays out what he wants from you. It's not always going to be what I want.

Being a Paul Heyman Guy wouldn't be such a bad thing!

I realized my dream and was proud to be a Superstar. I never won a title, but being hired by WWE and being a Superstar, to me, was like winning a championship.

Anything I did with the WWE was not therapeutic by any stretch of the imagination. The reality is that nobody's going to tell you that, because they have an umbilical cord hooked to Vince McMahon. I, ladies and gentlemen, do not.

Nobody thought Finn Balor would be in the WWE. Here I am.

I don't want to go back to WWE and burn out within four or five months, and having another run as TNA world champion would feel just as good.

You have Superstars, and then you have mega Superstars. Brock Lesnar is a mega Superstar.

The goal is become the top person on 'Raw,' the example on 'Raw,' the John Cena, the ultimate workhorse of 'Raw.'

WWE was looking for an opponent for The Undertaker. They needed someone for an upcoming pay-per-view. I was supposed to be just one and done.

When I came into WWE after Monday Night Wars, it wasn't my greatest time in the business... but they kept bringing me back.

I used to be around John Cena all the time in WWE, and I watched him and the way he worked. John is a guy who has been at the top longer than anyone else in history, and I'm lucky to have the opportunity to train at Cena's gym and go to him for advice.

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

I am super happy and super proud that Candice LeRae is in the WWE Performance Center.

Lance Storm taught me everything that I know.

Steve Corino was a guy I met before I got into Ring of Honor. I got to work with Steve, and he kind of took me under his wing and really helped me.

I had a great relationship with Vince McMahon.

People keep saying EC3 is the heart and soul of TNA: that he's this homegrown star, and he is going to be this big star. But fans don't understand that I'm the true star - I came off Vince McMahon's TV.

Back in 2004, Vince McMahon basically told me to consider WWE to be my playground, and that I could come and play any time I wanted to.

Vince McMahon is one of the greatest storytellers of all time, but WWE's not striving for the kind of innovation it's capable of.

I had my first 'Survivor Series' in 1991 and I was fortunate enough to be an instrumental part of the shows I was on.

That feeling is one of the things that keep me going. On July 6, 1998, I became the WCW heavyweight champion of the world!

When I went to WCW, I was never supposed to go in there as Terra Ryzing.

WCW is a television company that produces a wrestling show. The WWE is a wrestling company that produces a television show.

Most people know that Lita has been, as far as my wrestling career is concerned, a big influence even before I came to the WWE. We met when I was working the independent scene in North Carolina. She's always been so kind to me and helped me out a lot.