Sami Zayn Quotes

Aleister Black - we've battled in the past, across the world. I've enjoyed his build, to watch his evolution as well.

There is this great, great wrestler, who never really got an opportunity to be a star, named Len Denton: he was a masked guy called The Grappler. He was one of my favorite guys to ever wrestle, and it was just a tremendous pleasure to step in the ring with him.

As far as wrestling goes, as long as my body is able to withstand the physical beating, I will keep wrestling.

I'll never forget fighting on top of a cell with Shane McMahon.

If I had only Inoki to meet, I could wrestle until I was 60 years old.

I grew up watching wrestling my whole life, so to get the chance to step in the ring that I've watched on TV so many times is a dream come true.

I was in the independent scene for two years before I got the call from the WWE.

I had a lot of my success due to appearing at the Garden. I wrestled there over 200 times, it's where I won the title, and it's where I picked up 630-plus pounds of Haystacks Calhoun.

I've had my day in the sunshine with wrestling.

I can tell you this, and I'm 100 percent sure: 90 percent of the people working for WWE have never been in a real fight in their lives.

I wrestled my guys growing up. I've wrestled with Hulk Hogan. I've wrestled against Shawn Michaels. I've wrestled against Ric Flair.

I was discovered by Tommy Dreamer.

Roderick Strong - we've had some of my favorite battles.

I wasn't trying to be the next Hulk Hogan. I was trying to be the next Vince McMahon.

I've wrestled just about everybody there is to wrestle, done just about every character reincarnation that I can come up with.

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

I never got a chance to participate in one, but I wanted to be in an iron man match. I really just wanted to go in there and I remember pitching a couple of times too, and it wasn't necessarily for an iron man match, but I wanted to just go out there for a full hour and just do a match.

I did a year and a half of independent wrestling before I got into the WWE. It was nothing really. I didn't make the towns. I don't even say I was an indy wrestler.

Bill Goldberg can't wrestle.

I've been in a few fights where I keep drilling guys - Carl Froch, those sort of people - and they just keep coming.

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 had a couple knockouts, but I feel good.

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.

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.

Once I saw Roddy Piper I knew exactly what I was going to be doing when I grew up.