Randy Orton Quotes

William Regal has been the most influential person in my entire career.

The music business is not a good place for people who don't know things.

If anybody in my business knew as much about their business as the public did, they'd be all right!

Just like everyone else, I was a big fan of Paul Bearer and Percy Pringle and all of the other names that he went by.

As long as I can get Bobby Heenan in my corner, then I'm a happy man because, to me, Bobby Heenan is one of the most underrated performers of all time. He's in my top five of all time performers because I don't think people realize just how good he was.

Gail Kim has done so much and has so much knowledge. I think she's extremely underrated. She wants the product to be great and she doesn't mind taking the extra time to get it there. That is a really invaluable thing to me.

I love the business of pro wrestling, and it is something I know better than anything else I know about.

I can make a valid argument that Bobby Heenan is pro wrestling's great performer.

I've been in the business over 35 years and had over 6,000 matches and I am helping guys who have only been in the business maybe a year or two and 100 matches. I am taking my 6,000 matches and passing it along.

Diamond Dallas Page is one of my best friends.

Jake 'The Snake' Roberts, man - brilliant mind.

Vince Russo knows about as much about wrestling as Eric Bischoff does.

If it hadn't been for Paul Bearer, there would not have been a Kane. For that, I'm forever grateful.

Germany has a deep respect for the Hart family, especially Bret 'The Hitman' Hart.

Eric Bischoff is a total, complete idiot, maybe the single stupidest idiot that ever got into wrestling.

Jake 'The Snake' Roberts of Stone Mountain, Georgia, was the darkest! I mean, he could've been a movie villain, he was so intense! He also had the hardest finishing move of all time, the DDT.

Jim Ross has such compassion for the fans. That's because this is natural for him, it's a love, just like the love Gordon Solie had for the business.

You can have someone younger, faster, but if you have got that experience and that ring craft, you can do anything in that ring.

In wrestling, if there is a legend, Roddy Piper is a legend, no doubt about it. Nobody was ever like he was.

For me, I'm smart enough and have been around the business long enough to know you don't really retire.

To have a Japanese wrestler standing as the face of professional wrestling, there's only one person for that spot, and it's me.

The truth of the matter is that Dusty Rhodes helped put more money in my pocket than anybody I've ever wrestled. In his time he was the most charismatic and talented performer in the business, and I know he doesn't look like it, but he was a pretty good athlete too.

The most dangerous thing for an entrepreneur to do is to actually go into a business that he does not understand fully.

I was lucky to have been able to work so closely with Vince McMahon as he was able to see up-close what I could contribute to WWE, which lead to some amazing years not only at ringside, but also in the boardroom.

Randy Orton is one of the people in the industry I respect the most. Not many people can be as smooth and polished in the ring as Randy is, and still be over with the fans, and he is one of the very best in the industry.