Adam Cole Quotes

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.

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.

Was I a fan of WWE? Yeah, of course, but I knew it was not going to be a thing for me, until NXT came to the foreground and a lot of my friends who I was competing against on the independent scene were getting signed.

I was in the independent scene for two years before I got the call from the WWE.

When I was 17, I got a call from Konnan. He told me that he was about to start up a new promotion called AAA. A lot of the popular wrestlers were going to come to work for him, and he wanted me to be one of them.

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

I think something that escapes a lot of people is my entire career... I call myself the 'often unwanted' because when I got to Ring of Honor, I was told it was supposed to be one-off deal.

I was at House Of Hardcore for Tommy Dreamer. Good guy, great guy, great eye for talent - that's why he booked me.

Matt Hardy came into ROH with open arms. Matt came into ROH ready to learn.

I really appreciate ROH for letting me wrestle in the United States. American fans get to see me and get to see New Japan. Ring of Honor lets us do that.

I've been a top guy since I walked in - since I beat John Cena in my first match.

When I first went up to WWE in 2003, they asked me who I wanted to wrestle, and I said, 'I wanna go against The Rock.'

For me, I've been very lucky because of my relationship with Ring of Honor. I'm very close with everyone there, and that includes the guys that negotiate the contracts.

I think too, Jay Lethal being apart of Ring of Honor and being in that role where he's one of the guys who has the company on his back, he's taking that very seriously, and you can see it n his work. So it's been really cool to see.

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

When you have such a love and passion for wrestling and you love to work, you want to get in with good workers.

Ivan Koloff was great. I had a lot of great matches with him.

Of course I wanted to main-event wrestling matches in TNA, but in their eyes, no, that would not happen. So I went back to New Japan.

I have a lot of options in professional wrestling.

Ring of Honor is my home.

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.

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.

I got signed to Ring Of Honor because Jim Cornette happened to be paying attention to something I was doing.

As great as Hulk Hogan was, he still wasn't that great a worker.

I'd like to go to NXT, be NXT Champion.