Kazuchika Okada Quotes

Fortunately for me, I discovered Ring of Honor. And I saw guys who were much smaller in stature but were putting on these amazing matches that I had never seen in WWE before. So I thought, at the very least, I'd love the chance to be able to wrestle in a company like that someday.

There are wrestlers in Japan. I think they think they can move to WWE, but it's not so easy.

My career path is the best I could have hoped for, and that's thanks to independent wrestling and territories across the world.

The fact that I'm still able to wrestle on the indies and yet still do my stuff in NXT, and the fact that I wrestled in front of 15,000 people at the Barclays Center at TakeOver, and then, the following weekend, I was still doing indie shows, is wild.

Back in the day, when I was getting into the business, you could watch Pro Wrestling Noah. You could watch Ring Of Honor Wrestling, and a lot of people would say, 'the best wrestling in the world is actually at Ring Of Honor.'

I really don't feel like just going to WWE is the absolute end-all, be-all in wrestling.

Being in the Bullet Club is definitely a huge opportunity and guarantees more eyes on my work.

We value the independent wrestling scene, and it's our goal to strengthen it.

The WWE have told me that if I ever want to become a wrestler, all I need to do is walk through the door, and they'll give me a job straight away.

All of the Divas are given opportunities. It's kind of the way you go after them and what you do with them. I feel like I was able to seize the opportunity I was given, and now I am Divas champion.

I always knew that in the U.S., if you wanted to be a wrestler, Ring of Honor was the place to be.

If you're not in the WWE and bouncing around in the Indy shows, you're not with the best.

Being back with Impact wrestling, I couldn't be happier for those guys, but from a professional and business side, it energises me so much to find the next AJ Styles, the next Bobby Roode, the next Samoa Joe.

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.

The best ones - Hulk Hogan believes in Hulkamania. It's not a thing he's selling here. It's real. He knows it's real because he goes to the Mall Of America and everybody goes insane, right? Wrestling is real. Those characters are real.

I guess my mission statement is now to let the world know on a global scale that WWE certainly is a wonderful form of entertainment, but its superstars are more than just superstars inside the ring. They do so much more outside the ring and have so much more to offer.

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.

Undertaker, for almost as long as many of us have been watching WWE, he's been part of it.

I was thankful that TNA saw the potential in me and put me in a position to fulfill something like winning the World Heavyweight Championship.

I was always a fan of wrestling, right from the time I was nine or so. But eventually I decided I wanted to do professional wrestling myself, not just watch.

I'm a fan of Lucha Underground and hope they are successful.

I do not see Dean Ambrose leaving WWE to go somewhere else.

Traditionally, WWE used to shy away from that Internet kind of fan base. But I think increasingly, in life in general and every aspect of entertainment, social media, the Internet fan base is now massive.

In North America, there aren't too many big places to go, so you find that pretty much all of the best talent in the world ends up filtering through WWE.