Bobby Lashley Quotes

I definitely miss parts of wrestling like having matches, especially when I watch the product.

Ultimate Warrior had a hell of a gimmick, but wrestling is about so much more than that. You have to be consistent, work main events every night and have matches that people really believe in and want to see.

Believe it or not, I kind of went into professional wrestling so I could get an avenue into acting.

My character is just an extension of me. The in-ring work, the things that will always be said about me: Big, overbearing, powerful, in-your-face, couldn't wrestle - I never needed to wrestle. Why did I need to learn how to wrestle? Did Hulk Hogan need to learn how to wrestle? Nope. Is Hulk Hogan a good athlete? Nope.

When I am on 'Raw' and 'Smackdown,' I try to make the best of it.

I had so many wonderful guys that I worked with and great matches - that's what was most important to me - and the fans.

I once said that I never wanted to be a good guy or the 'baby face,' as we call it in the wrestling business. But you know, it is what it is, and I'll be whatever they want me to be. At the end of the day, we work for the WWE fans.

I like to lean on making wrestling the most believable, realistic form of entertainment as possible for the most part.

My heart was always dedicated to giving fans around the world the best match possible, and the fans grew with me.

In Total Nonstop Action, individual wrestlers have a lot more freedom to artistically express themselves versus WWE.

Obviously, wrestling is a lot of fun, and I love it. But on the mic is where I have the most fun.

That's what we do in WWE: we tell stories.

Aleister Black - we've battled in the past, across the world. I've enjoyed his build, to watch his evolution as well.

Diesel coming down with shades, being seven feet tall with an all-black outfit on and the gloves; The Rock when he was wearing $800 Versace shirts; and Stone Cold, obviously, with the way he carried himself and the way he spoke and holding the microphone - these are the things that made me want to become a pro wrestler.

Acting is a big ambition, but I still have a professional wrestling world to conquer.

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

It was just my sense being on the ground, doing four unique independents a week and then finally seeing how, at the ROH event, fans react to us as a group. I really see the sport trending upwards.

When I was a teenager, a friend of mine got a job on a wrestling radio show in Montreal, and he found a local professional wrestler who was able to train us.

Out in the WWE ring, we have to play so much bad guy, good guy, don't talk to your competitors, but backstage, you'll see that we're all really close, and it affects us.

I think, at every professional wrestler's heart, there's a fan.

Ring of Honor always has a great general idea of what they think I need, and generally, we agree pretty quickly on what I want to do.

Sprinkle in a bit of pro wrestling in MMA is good. You get the fans talking. They want that drama.

The New Day has been the New Day because what we have done. We can be entertaining but then we can get serious, too.

Performing for WWE did so much for me in terms of teaching me how to act and doing fighting scenes.

Promoters believed in me and gave me a platform, and then the fans started believing in me. It went from me trying to show the fans what I was all about to growing companies around the world. I got to be the face of so many companies, like EVOLVE and Insane Championship Wrestling in Scotland.