Rusev Quotes

I started wrestling when I was 19 years old, and I spent my entire adult life on the road chasing this dream, and I loved it.

I have a lot of options in professional wrestling.

I just started watching wrestling in 2008, and I've loved it ever since. I told my mom I wanted to become a wrestler.

After watching wrestling for 20 years, I thought I had enough confidence to do it. There were no wrestling schools at the time.

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.

I run my wrestling school, SyDojo, I do independent wrestling events all over the world.

I'm a professional wrestler at heart, and I miss it.

I love wrestling. That's not going to change.

Many people ask me about WWE and if I'd go to WWE in the future. They ask me if I'm going now. I will not go. I want to make New Japan Pro-Wrestling bigger.

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

I always wanted to be the worst wrestler on the shows I was on so I could just learn from the guys above me, and that's a great way to be in your first few years of wrestling.

I have spent my last few years training and aggressively becoming the best wrestler that I can and I will continue to do that but at the same time I've been in every major locker room of the professional wrestling world.

I wrestled 23 straight years all over the world.

I wrestled in Detroit many times before getting to WWE.

Joining WWE has always been a lifelong dream of mine.

I was a fanatic about wrestling when I was a kid.

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

I was the first WWE developmental talent. When I moved to Connecticut to start training, I had no idea what wrestling was other than what I saw as a fan.

I study a lot of tapes. I have a passion for the business, and I've always wanted to be the best ever since I got in the business. I have a love for this sport and just want to be the best in it.

After my freshmen year of college, I really wanted to pursue wrestling.

When I saw that Wrestlemania had broken an indoor attendance record, I just walked into a wrestling office, Championship Wrestling in Florida, during the offseason, and they introduced me to Hiro Matsuda, who became my mentor... and the rest is history!

I became a wrestling fan in college. So, I was more of a wrestling fan as an adult than when I was a little kid.

I listened to the veteran wrestlers that had tons of experience, like Leo Burke.

I had a lot of time to think in the service; I swore that, if I survived, nothing would keep me from an acting career.

I never was an amateur wrestler.