Buddy Murphy Quotes

It's been a part of my entire life: I've wanted to be a wrestler since I was a little kid. I don't think that ever leaves you.

I'd love to become Intercontinental Champion.

All my life I wanted to be WWE champion, so when I won that, that was great.

As long as I can remember, I was a WWE fan. I wanted to grow up and be a WWE superstar just like my favorites.

When I was a kid, I said this is what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a wrestler.

Growing up, my wildest dream was always to be part of the WWE, and I'd been in NXT by that time for two and a half years, so I felt very, very ready to go.

I grew up watching wrestling my whole life, so to get the chance to step in the ring that I've watched on TV so many times is a dream come true.

I always wanted to be mentioned in the same breath as all of the great wrestlers.

I came into ECW in Philadelphia in 1996 and left in 2001 - a much bigger, worldwide star than I arrived - and I thank ECW for that.

I have dreamed of being a champion in WWE, and there's nothing I won't do, no length I won't go to, in order to keep it that way.

With the likes of Rey Mysterio back in WWE, I find myself watching him and feeling inspired and that I need to get better and get to that next level.

Ever since I was 3 years old, I wanted to be WWE champion. I got that belt during WrestleMania 31, and I want it back. It's what drives me.

I've always dreamt of somewhere down the line getting one match out of Hogan, just because that was always a dream.

If I aspire to be the king of WWE, one day if I keep working at it, I will be the king of WWE.

I was an unknown face before I joined the WWE.

I just couldn't believe I'd made my debut in WWE. It's what I'd always wanted to do.

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.'

I was 21 years old when I first signed with WWE. I finished my university degree and came straight to America.

I get a lot of comparisons to Daniel Bryan, and trust me, I am flattered by all of them because we mentioned New Orleans and WrestleMania; I watched it at home and watched Daniel Bryan in the main event of WrestleMania achieve his dreams.

To some people, being in the business only starts when you're in the WWE. So I guess for those people, I'm kind of an overnight sensation.

I want to be the first female to main-event WrestleMania, and I just want to continue to get better and better and continue my dad's legacy.

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.

If I could go back in time, I would have loved to have done more with Triple H. He blossomed into a bigger star after I left. I regret, looking back now, that we didn't have more matches or better matches or at least one pay-per-view match where we could have really showed our best stuff - or, at least, I did.

My most memorable WrestleMania ever was my first: at WrestleMania 14 in Boston against The Undertaker. That was a huge high point in my career and an absolute highlight of my career.

I was always around wrestling. I went to shows, but I never pictured myself where I am today. My brothers, David and Reid, were more into wrestling. When they wrestled, it was hard on my brothers because they were always compared to my dad.