Scott Steiner Quotes

By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.

When I was a kid, I never thought much about football. I thought about following in my family's footsteps and going into professional wrestling.

Pro wrestling has always been my passion. I always wanted to be a pro wrestler.

At 15-years-old, I always wanted to do professional wrestling, and at 15, I started training as a professional wrestler. It was always the plan to become an entertainer, a sports entertainer.

I went to my tryout in WWE, and I think within like six weeks, it was really fast for me, I was like down there, moved to Tampa, and the rest was history.

I'm not the only guy who doesn't have an independent wrestling background. You know, I have a football background, but I also have a wrestling one.

I remember my agent calling and saying 'this may be really weird, but would you have any interest in WWE?' I was like, 'isn't that wrestling? And the last time I saw a WWE match was in my women's studies class at the University of Michigan, and they picked it apart. But she implored me to watch, and instantly I was interested.

New York, specifically, has been very good to me throughout my wrestling career.

I always wanted to be a wrestler.

I turned pro as a wrestler a few days after my last football game.

Loving entertainment but having our athletic talent, WWE seemed like the perfect fit for us.

I was six years old and knew I wanted to be a wrestler.

My dad loved being a part of 'Total Divas' and sharing that special connection that we shared in having the same careers in WWE.

Ric Flair, The Freebirds, and The Rockers were great influences in my decision to become a wrestler.

We love to be athletic, but at the same time, we love to entertain. So my sister was actually looking to play pro soccer in Italy, and I convinced her. I said, 'Please, there's this thing called WWE Diva Search. I really want to go. I think we can do this.' And sure enough, they gave my sister and me a shot.

I kept doing tryouts, and finally, after five years I got signed by WWE.

I worked for my family's Polynesian dance troupe for my entire life up until I started wresting full time.

Daniel Bryan is someone who I definitely think I can have good matches with.

When I was Cedrick Von Haussen, the champion of Liechtenstein, I was only 18 years old. I was super, duper young. I started traveling around for wrestling when I was 16, so I had only been wrestling a few years at that point.

My uncle wrestled in the late '80s to early '90s, and I was too young to see his matches. However, he has always supported me in my journey, and I think that without his support, all this would not have been possible. He taught me a lot, and he is the reason that I'm a WWE wrestler.

As great as Hulk Hogan was, he still wasn't that great a worker.

Years before 'Tough Enough' came out - and I still have the papers - I filled out the entire application but never sent it in. I was like this is perfect, it's sports, I'm competitive, I could do that.

There is nothing I love more than pro wrestling, so getting to do that all over the globe with some of the best out there is my personal heaven.

A great deal of WWE Superstars, like Dolph Ziggler, Bray Wyatt, Baron Corbin, Sheamus, Braun Strowman, The Miz, etc., came from WWE's developmental system, and I've had the privilege of working with them over the years.

I knew Roman Reigns when he used to come into the locker room with his father, holding his father's hand, barely out of diapers. And I don't say that as an ironic statement... I mean it sincerely.