Drew McIntyre Quotes

The transition to WWE has been an incredible road. It's been great, it's been difficult, it's been motivating, and it has allowed me as a person to just completely see myself differently and allowed me to grow in a different perspective with their input.

I always want to surprise myself, more than anybody else.

So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more.

I think everybody has a moment in their career where you have to test whether it was right or wrong. We've all been there. I've looked back at performances of my own, where only you know if it is something you want to repeat. As long as you know when it's not right that you don't repeat it all the time.

I personally made lots of mistakes during my 10-12 years as a newspaper editor. Some of which I felt were big mistakes I have tried to address.

My goals for myself have changed as my career has evolved and as I've grown as a writer.

I tried to really look at what's best for my career, what's best for my life, what's best for my family, for me.

I think any job you do is an opportunity to learn and an opportunity to explore and challenge yourself.

I just want to take the time to think about what I've achieved in my career so far, where I need to go, and what I need to do to get better as a player.

My first job was at Proctor and Gamble in Cincinnati, my second job was at a pharmaceutical company in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. My third job was at Palmolive. And I realized, three jobs in three years, maybe it wasn't the job. It had to be me.

My failures were something for me - my first contact with professional football. Though it didn't go all that well, it's not a regret, it's just like that. But looking back, those failures helped me consider football differently, consider the professional game differently.

I have learned a lot a lot in my three years at Gladbach and developed a feeling for what is best for me. I owe the club a lot.

Breaking stereotypes and my own barriers is great fun, because that's what leads to growth.

I worked extremely hard and dedicated my life to pro wrestling but the more I grow in ways not related to work, my work grows.

All I need to worry about is have I done better than my previous film or not.

As good as that first year in Ring of Honor was, the second year was really, really bad for me. In retrospect, it was great for me, but at the time, it was a tough situation to be in. I didn't have anyone around to mentor me where I needed to be.

I wish I had known that that process of figuring out what you're good at, what you want to do, and where you want to have an impact is not a one-time exercise, but an ongoing one. Instead, I bought into success being an endpoint rather than a constant process.

Learning from my mistakes at the same time being criticized by Triple H and Ric Flair made me what I am today.

I'm always trying to encourage people not to limit themselves in the same way that many of our parents stayed with one job forever.

I know a lot of actors don't like to watch themselves and sometimes I don't, but generally I do because I like to just see if there's anything that I can change in the future or make better or anything like that.

It's time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.

If you would have met me when I first started wrestling - or even five, six, seven, eight years into wrestling - you wouldn't be like "This person is a dynamic personality on the screen." That would have never happened. That's something that's evolved. You just keep putting yourself out there and you keep working at that sort of thing and you can get better at it.

Never look for your work in one place and your progress in another.

If you can look at your failure and answer yes to the questions, "Did I give it my absolute best effort?" and "Have I learned something valuable?" then you have failed in the right way. By these standards, I've failed many times in my career. But every failure has made me stronger and wiser. Inevitably, success has always followed.

I try to do things where I'm going to feel challenged in some way. I only really do one movie a year.