Matt Riddle Quotes

I use every kind of emotion in my wrestling, so that's why people call me the 'King of Strong Style.'

Wrestlers are a bunch of wanna-be football players.

When I was a wrestler, my job was mostly looking mean and throwing punches and kicks.

Oney Lorcan is such a hard-hitting dude, just like me. We go in there, two hard-hitting dudes, and the crowd are going to be taken aback, and that's our goal.

Anything can happen in pro wrestling.

There's a misconception about wrestling, that it's really fake, but it's real, and you can really get hurt, even though a lot of it is performative.

If you watch punches, kicks, and moves where there is contact, Cody Rhodes is one of the best.

I will get in the ring and pour my heart out. I'll do whatever it takes to make sure that when the Cruiserweight Classic is over, the one name on people's minds is Johnny Wrestling.

People who like hard-hitting wrestling and action, they'll like me.

I'm a big fan of Lance Archer, Jeff Cobb, Luke Harper.

I got into wrestling to be a WWE superstar - that was my goal.

I would like to face everyone on the Impact roster. It is filled with amazing performers, I would be honored to share the ring with any of them.

I've always liked watching wrestling, but once you are on the other end of it, you develop a certain passion for it and respect for it, and I would like to accomplish everything I want to before calling it quits.

Nobody ever went and saw The Midnight Express and thought their match was bad.

I just like people that bring in a very competitive mentality to pro wrestling.

You realize, as time goes on, there is a certain expectation now in 2018 where fans want to see cool, exciting, hard-hitting sports entertainment or hard-hitting pro wrestling, and there are ways to give them that without necessarily putting yourself in the hospital that night or not being able to move the next morning.

Eric Young is phenomenal. Bobby Roode - every time I get in the ring with those guys, it's almost like magic.

I had never seen a Pro Wrestling ring until I was maybe around grade 11.

Even though MMA and pro wrestling are very different, at the end of the day, it's all about entertaining. They are amazing athletes who go out there and give 100 percent.

I've never really considered myself a wrestler. I always considered myself an entertainer, but I always wanted to be better than the guy next to me.

I was a huge fan of Raven because of the way he redefined how a champion should wrestle.

I get more respect doing professional wrestling than I ever did in MMA.

As awkward as it is to manoeuvre a ladder around the squared circle, there is an incredible art to 'excellently executing' a ladder match.

We went through this month camp, learning how to bump and hit the ropes. I just fell in love with WWE and sports entertainment. It was the perfect world of the merge in sports, action, acting, and entertainment. I felt like I finally found my place.

I've been in a lot of different factions my whole career, and all the guys who made up those factions are different performers. For example, if you look at the Undisputed Era as a whole, I'm very different than Roderick Strong, who's very different from Kyle O'Reilly, who's very different from Bobby Fish.