Wade Barrett Quotes

I love wrestling, but now wrestling is a job, it's my livelihood. Sometimes the job takes over and you forget to have fun and you forget to be creative and try new things.

That's the worst part about all of the injuries and the criticism. It would be one thing if I had been healthy for five years and just sucked when I was on the court. But I can't prove what I can do because I can't stay healthy. Not having control over the situation makes it tough.

It's real easy to be in the WWE and let your passion or your pain or the schedule put you in a bad place.

I think, at some point in my wrestling career, I took myself way too seriously, and I took the wrestling business way too seriously. It probably helped sour me on the whole process. It probably helped burn me out.

I had suffered a multitude of injuries, as most guys in the business do. Most of them came at the end of my career.

WWE was far more tougher than working for a film where you could take a shot and go and rest in the trailer, but for WWE, one had to exercise, eat well, fight, and even deal with injuries.

The twenty minutes or more we spend inside the ring, that's the fun part. It's the rest of our lives that's the real battle - the ruthless backstage politics, the constant traveling, the endless mental and physical aches and pains.

Stress is part of your career. You have to accept it and deal with it because there is a lot of emotion in tennis.

Sport is healthy, but it can be the opposite of that at the top level. You have so many injuries; you put your body through so much. You wake up at 2 in the morning, and you cannot move.

It's not like I'm not constantly dealing with a litany of injuries that I have myself. If it's not one thing, it's another thing, but I've just been able to keep rolling.

This is a very stressful profession. Not just coaching, but head coaching at this level with all of the variables that you have on your mind 24/7, it does take a toll on your health and you have to be very cognizant about what's going on with your body and listen to your body and make sure that you take care of your body.

If I thought of gymnastics as a job, it would put too much stress on me.

I think a lot of times with football players, we're just head down, grinding away, maybe not enjoying it as much as we should.

Being an actor can be a cruel experience because there is no cooling-down period. You can be involved in something that's incredibly intense, but then it's a wrap and you've finished and you go home. I find it difficult to complete a job and then return to reality and find my healthy place.

A lot of my career I'm out of the gym, I'm injured and I'm blown up.

I do some really intense roles and it's not good to bring them home.

When you sign for a new club, you just want to play, and when injury stops you, it is frustrating.

I feel like I've paid a really heavy cost, a really heavy physical health cost, for the years of touring and how physical I've been onstage.

I don't want to be like these guys having neck surgery, then you got to go have another surgery just to continue to play this game. I love this game but I love myself more.

For anyone to say that WWE is fake or anything like that, no sir! It's very physical, and the injuries are real; the blood is real.

Pro wrestling is so physical and taxing and just hurts your body; it's very aggressive entertainment.

I left WWE because I was utterly miserable wrestling at the time and I needed to get away from the business.

I find that when I'm under pressure, I work really well, but then you have those days where you sleep for four hours because you drive to a venue overnight and arrive there the next day, and you're cranky and not dealing with it very well.

Being a wrestler, it can get rough in terms of your mindset, just having that mentality embedded in you where you just wanna go, go, go, 100 miles per hour, always redlining your body and never actually taking the time out to let your body recover the right way. As I got older, I started to realized that less sometimes is more.

WrestleMania's sort of the end off the year for us, but it's also a beginning because we don't take any time off.