Drew McIntyre Quotes

I debuted in WWE right around the time when the 'Attitude Era' ended and WWE programming switched to Parental Guidance. Back then, we had one champion, and if you weren't the champion or the challenger, securing television time was often challenging.

Pro wrestling was there, and I was good at it, thank God. I started getting a lot of offers, but unfortunately, at WWE I was under a tight leash. I think it had a lot to do with The Rock making the transition, and me possibly being the next guy - you know, the company didn't want to lose another top performer.

WWE is a company that produces fiction. It's a soap opera that runs 52 weeks a year without reruns.

I think I have faced pretty much everyone that is in the WWE.

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.

When you're an independent wrestler, committing a lot of time and effort into honing your craft as much as possible in as many different places as possible will catch the WWE's interest as far as the independent level goes.

That's the great thing with the WWE. They want you to be like John Cena, they want you to be like The Rock, and they definitely give you that platform.

You've got some very unique individuals in the WWE, and it's a completely different nexus on 'SmackDown' than it is on 'Raw.'

The whole time I was in WWE, I was like, 'We need a reality show,' because the stuff that goes down is just crazy.

The WWE is the be-all and end-all of sports entertainment. They just do things right.

There's a huge fan base behind NXT, which is cool because that opens up the door to younger talent that maybe at one point thought that it was impossible to ever get into WWE, but now, there it is.

I wanted to be a part of WWE and part of NXT first, as, if I went to 'Raw' or 'SmackDown' right away, I would always wonder what NXT would have been like.

If you're a wrestler in the WWE, then your goal is to be the headliner, main event of WrestleMania.

The tank entrance at WrestleMania 31 is my favorite moment in WWE.

Obviously, you know, when you talk about dream matches and you talk about the WWE, you can't not mention John Cena.

WWE is something I've had my eye on.

Without knocking Impact Wrestling, your contribution was largely limited to what you could do in the TV show. WWE is a bigger company with a bigger infrastructure and a lot more ways to make a contribution.

I think the reality of the situation is if you're WWE and you're looking for talent, you're going to want the best guys out there, and you're gonna look at Ring Of Honor, because that's where the best talent is.

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

The nWo pursued me for a while. To be perfectly honest, I think WCW management purposely kept me off 'Nitro' for a while to keep the nWo from getting to me.

Growing up, I wanted to be in WWE because of watching characters like Stephanie McMahon and Paul Heyman. They just are such incredible storytellers, such incredible, compelling characters.

There would be no DX if it wasn't for the nWo, in my opinion.

It's the WWE; it's Vince McMahon's show. He lays out what he wants from you. It's not always going to be what I want.

I would like to see Jay Lethal and Dalton Castle join the company. Both have made their name in Ring of Honor, and their addition can make WWE a very exciting place.

Once upon a time if you go back to the early 2000s all the way to 2014 all I cared about in life was being a wrestler, going on the road, performing in front of crowds, getting big, climbing the ladder.