Shawn Spears Quotes

As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.

I want to play for years.

If I had only Inoki to meet, I could wrestle until I was 60 years old.

I do feel grateful, and I love what I'm doing, and I'm happy, and I'm living in the moment, but I also have my eye on the long game and the big prize, and that is just to make this a life-long career. To make a big enough impact on everybody to stick around for a long time.

Of course, you try to achieve some things to provide for you and your family, and your club can pay you whatever they pay you. But, for me, it's important to be healthy, stay on the pitch and give everything to make performances. This is priority number one for me.

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 realized, statistically, the chances of me getting to the WWE and being very successful were very slim. I always hoped it would happen for me.

If I were ever in a position to appear more for ROH, I would accept nothing less than to be recognized as the best - which would mean having to challenge the top dogs/champions.

I always said when I was younger that I want to wrestle until I'm 40 or even in the 50s as long as I can still keep doing the same style of wrestling that I do.

I wasn't trying to be the next Hulk Hogan. I was trying to be the next Vince McMahon.

In a perfect world, I'd end up at NXT.

WWE, in the back of my mind, was always the dream job, and most people don't get their dream jobs.

I never put it to where I say, 'I'm just this big pay-per-view star,' or 'I wanna be the No. 1 pay-per-view star that got all the ratings.' No, I was just like, 'I'm gonna be a world champion. That's what I'm gonna be.'

I've won every single event there is to win as a wrestler, and I still continue to come back every single year. The hard part for me is, 'OK, how long can you do this?'

I thought if I could play 10 years in the league, it would be a great career more than I could ever hope for in my wildest dreams.

Marking success, for me, is walking onto a court and just walking off healthy, no matter if it is one minute or two minutes.

I hope to continue playing until the age of 40, just like Francesco Totti.

When I came into football, my whole identity was to be one of the best players in the world, if not the best player, and for me, that is what is driving me each and every day.

Hopefully I can end up in the WWE Hall of Fame one day.

Early on in my career, I used to get out in the 30s, 40s, fifties, and 60s. So I really appreciated reaching my first hundred.

I'm here to leave my mark in WWE history.

Whatever I have achieved in the industry is something I consider to be amazing.

I don't think it matters how old you are as long as you keep yourself physically fit.

Whether I ever become WWE champion in my career, I'm proud of what I've done.

I know that I have probably an eight- to 10-year window in this league, and if I want to be what I say I want to be, then I have to commit myself 100 percent.