Wade Barrett Quotes

When I began in Ring of Honor, I was very fortunate to get on shows and get looked at and get the experience. I was working with a ton of guys who had more experience than me at the time, like AJ Styles and Christopher Daniels.

After watching wrestling for 20 years, I thought I had enough confidence to do it. There were no wrestling schools at the time.

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

If Okada, if a Tanahashi, Michael Elgin, The Young Bucks, if they want to have a, the place they can find me is the WWE. I'm going to be busy making my way to the top of that food chain.

I love doing commentary, and I love working with NWA, as that's been a goal of mine for a long time.

I'm interested to work with Lucha Underground and as champion that would put me in the mix to work with them.

Actually, a person asked me if I was ever going to come back to WWE. I told them that if I came back, it probably wouldn't be as WWE Superstar, because the young guys are really what it's all about. Bringing me back as an announcer is a great position for me to actually go out and make the young guys bigger stars.

I remember when I had just left WWE and I was wrestling in England and Germany, I could just tell that this influx of this new wave of wrestling was coming much like it felt when I began wrestling back in '99.

The joke we always say is that WWE doesn't pay us to wrestle, they pay us to travel.

It's easy for a multi-billion company like WWE - it's for a company like that to hire anyone. So I'm glad Bobby Lashley is back in action with that company, 'cause he's a fantastic guy.

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

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.

Just because I wasn't with my brother in the WWE, that doesn't mean I wasn't in the business.

I always had watched pro wrestling. I happened to be watching the WWE Network one day and started watching differently: I wasn't watching it as a fan, but instead I was watching it as something that I could possibly be a part of.

If the WWF was about talent, Taka Michinoku would have been WWF champion

What I think ECW presented was a big opportunity for a lot of WWE superstars. Definitely me. It revitalized my entire career when I moved to ECW.

WCW had its moment, and that's what it was: it was a moment. And we created some great stories and changed the industry to a large degree.

If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.

Being a Paul Heyman Guy wouldn't be such a bad thing!

In my opinion nobody owns the patent on the art form of professional wrestling and the way it does its business.

As much as I love the business and I love my fans, I don't want to be at every WrestleMania.

For a long time, we had Raw and SmackDown, and there wasn't really anything else. The NXT Universe kinda opened up channels for wrestlers to come in from the independent circuits, like myself.

I have an open door with WWE as far as wrestling goes.

When I first came up in the wrestling business, there was a movie called 'The California Dolls' about a female tag team - girls who are struggling trying to make it in the wrestling world. I started out in a tag team, and my name was Britani Knight, and my dad named us after The California Dolls. We were called The Norfolk Dolls.