John Darnielle Quotes

There are no tough guys in wrestling.

I am an entertainer and I am an athlete, and WWE is the biggest performance-based show in the world.

I think the reason that I've been able to succeed is that I was a fan of sports entertainment when I was a kid - that's what I wanted to do.

Loving entertainment but having our athletic talent, WWE seemed like the perfect fit for us.

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

A lot of people don't realize that wrestling is acting; you're playing a role and a part.

I have four or five wrestling personalities up my sleeve. I always want to deliver a great match, and my goal will forever be to continue to connect with the fans.

In wrestling, people just throw each other around, possibly actually bleed, and are still friends in the locker room afterwards. But there's a real glee - a feeling goes up in the arena, especially on non-TV days. If it's just people in a room and somebody starts to bleed, that's very exciting.

Wrestling used to be interesting. There was a bit of sham involved, of course, but there was some real wrestling involved. They're just characters now. It's unrecognizable. There's no fighting in American bloody wrestling. They just yell at each other and jump around like overweight ballet dancers.

At the end of the day, wrestling is one big, happy, dysfunctional family.

If you've never been to a live wrestling show, you need to go to one. To understand 'Lucha Underground,' you need to watch it.

Enzo Amore, the guy you see on TV, existed in a gym in New Jersey long before he ever took to a TV screen.

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

We have amazing people that help us backstage, and Arn Anderson is someone I always like to look to. He's a legend in his own right.

Daniel Bryan is someone who I definitely think I can have good matches with.

It's really funny to me that I get called a workhorse or somebody who's really good at making other people better in the ring. I feel like I'm good at every aspect of this. I feel like I'm a great talker; I feel like I'm a great representative of the company. I broke records in college. I have an amateur background with fighting skills.

Eric Young is phenomenal. Bobby Roode - every time I get in the ring with those guys, it's almost like magic.

Ric Flair, as great was and a hard worker as he was, he just tends to get lost in the ring.

There is an art to wrestling, and there is a need to do it right. Cody Rhodes exemplifies all the right things.

I can tell you this, and I'm 100 percent sure: 90 percent of the people working for WWE have never been in a real fight in their lives.

Chris Jericho is a guy who I grew up really appreciating what he did in the ring.

I study a lot of tapes. I have a passion for the business, and I've always wanted to be the best ever since I got in the business. I have a love for this sport and just want to be the best in it.

I'm an artist, a performer... There's an art to what we do to the wrestling... I don't want to really fight anybody.

People think that we hired a bunch of actresses and taught them how to wrestle, and that couldn't be further from the truth.

I don't want to watch phoney looking wrestling, nor does any of us anymore - we've seen too much of it.