Jim Cornette Quotes

It took me 11 years to get a shot at the WWE championship; not just to win it, but just to get a shot, but luckily I was able to capitalize on that and become WWE champion, but if I had quit I wouldn't have been in that position.

If you're a wrestler in the WWE, then your goal is to be the headliner, main event of WrestleMania.

I truly love professional wrestling. I don't want to do anything else.

It's like I tell everybody, if you get a chance to win the Royal Rumble or the King of the Ring back when they had it, that means you're gonna get a push. You getting an opportunity at something big, and it can really set up your future for you. So if you're that guy, boy, it's pressure.

I want to be Intercontinental Champion. I also want to be a tag-team champion.

I have a lot of options in professional wrestling.

WWE, of course, has had some fantastic two out of three falls matches.

I still feel like I am in my introductory period in terms of making my name in WWE so want to keep my head down and work hard. I would also love to have a match with Daniel Bryan.

I've been doing this close to 19 years now, and I always dreamed of being in the WWE.

I went from being a guy who was sparingly being used on television to being the World Heavyweight Champion and the focus of a lot of the storylines on Smackdown.

You want to earn that opportunity to be part of WrestleMania, the biggest show of the year.

Ever since I was 3 years old, I wanted to be WWE champion. I got that belt during WrestleMania 31, and I want it back. It's what drives me.

WWE and I have a long history, and I remember some very fun days back in the day.

The first time I won the Ring of Honor World Championship, I was a kid - I was 23 years old.

Whether I ever become WWE champion in my career, I'm proud of what I've done.

You have to consider, I'm a full-time professional wrestler, and Stephen Amell is a celebrity, and yet we still managed to beat two full-time professional wrestlers.

I like having titles. I feel like when I walk out and I don't have a title, it's strange. Even in the independent scene before I got to WWE, I was a champion in most of the companies I wrestled for. Being a champion is just what I do.

Antonio Pena, the founder of AAA, and I worked together in 2002/2003. I have worked with the Pena family for years. I am the longest-reigning non-Mexican Mega Champion.

Once I got my groove in WCW in '97, I'm pretty proud of the things I did there. By the time I got to WWE for DX, I may not have been as quick, but I was so far more well-rounded and a much more of a ring general.

I've been Austin almost half my life. In almost every public setting, that's why I'm there - to be Austin Aries.

I didn't get any crazy sponsors. I don't have any extra sponsors since I got the belt.

Vince Russo stuck up for me in WCW when it came down to who should be world champ. From what I've heard, there was a meeting, and Russo stood up for me. I would not be six-time world champion if it were not for Vince Russo. I would not even be one-time world champion if it weren't for Vince Russo.

I really value my days down there in ECW in Philly.

I debuted in WWE right around the time when the 'Attitude Era' ended and WWE programming switched to Parental Guidance. Back then, we had one champion, and if you weren't the champion or the challenger, securing television time was often challenging.

If I aspire to be the king of WWE, one day if I keep working at it, I will be the king of WWE.