Matt Riddle Quotes

But wrestling used to be the same as boxing or mixed martial arts. It used to be about conflict, having a fight, who's going to win.

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

Wrestlers from Japan and Canada are very tough.

You can catch me following good wrestlers wherever they are.

For me, as much fun as it is to watch wrestling is, actually wrestling is what struck a chord with me.

It was acting, and WWE is the longest-running weekly episodic program in television. Sure, there are story lines that are better than others.

Hollywood's great, but wrestling is my first love.

We take pride in making our Knockouts Division about wrestling, not about looking pretty.

I'd love to wrestle a Bruiser Brody or Andre the Giant from the past.

I grew up watching wrestling.

I affirmatively have watched WWE programming my whole entire life!

All those guys wanna be us. All the fighters wanna be in professional wrestling; I don't care what they say.

I want to be on 'SmackDown' because it has AJ Styles, Randy Orton, and John Cena - a lot of dream matches I can do.

There's so many great matches that you can think of. I could fantasy book all kinds of stuff, you know, fight a few family members. If we could have Umaga back, I would love to wrestle him in any arena in any town just because of how good he was.

Growing up, I was always a fan of wrestling, but I was also a fan of MMA and stuff.

People can say what they want about WWE. Paul Levesque, Vince McMahon, Michael Cole - they all gave me another life by bringing me back to call NXT. That's where I should have been in the beginning.

My dad had a habit of giving me the Abdullah the Butcher matches as well as the ones with tables and chairs - basically, the matches that went all over the building.

For anyone who's not familiar with 'Piper's Pit,' they need to know one thing - there's absolutely no rules.

Wrestling can be anything... There's some forms of wrestling that I'm not too big a fan of, but I'm not going to say it's not wrestling because it is wrestling.

Those who have not seen wrestling before have probably tuned in to 'Lucha Underground' and go, 'Whoa! This is a TV series turned into wrestling.'

I was a big fan of wrestling growing up and of WWE.

I love watching Japanese wrestling, and then Bryan will be like, 'Watch this' or 'See this.'

WWE is such a universal form of entertainment. I believe that you can watch WWE in mute and still know what is going on.

I like going to Japan where they treat it like a real sport. I like doing the entertainment stuff with the WWE. I really like doing the small venue stuff, like Ring of Honor, because everything is so intimate. There's different feelings and different experiences, and you have to be good at different things to do all of that.

Memphis is like the heart of wrestling.