Cesaro Quotes

I've worked my entire career to try to broaden the perception of the WWE. A lot of folks think because we're so entertaining and oftentimes have such wild and well-defined characters that it's all we are. It has kind of been my life's work to tell the public that's not true.

You can have a wrestling idea, but you need to have these momentum-shifting moves. We had the Hulkamania movement, then it shifted to the beer-drinking, Stone Cold era, we reinvented the business with growing the black beard and becoming the bad guy, what's that next level.

We've finally told the world that this is sports entertainment, and I think one of the best forms of entertainment is anything that's fun or funny, something that you really enjoy watching or listening to.

I get a lot of influence from pro wrestling. People are like, 'Oh, it's fake.' But it's not about whether the guy wins or loses, it's about how he entertains you the whole time you're watching.

Wrestling needs to be about the art form again. It needs to be about painting a picture and having a really good match.

I love wrestling, and I love telling a story to the audience.

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

I think 'Raw' is complacent in the fact that 'Raw's' been the flagship of WWE. 'Smackdown' wants to be number one.

Not to knock TNA, but there's too much hokey talking and segments that don't really involve wrestling.

I spent so many years in MMA waving the banner for pro wrestling, telling fighters they had to be more entertaining.

NXT is unpredictable, and they are not afraid to tell a lot of different stories and compelling stories.

Now, being a fan, I love the difference between 'Raw' and 'Smackdown' - I know that each show will be completely different, and that makes it so fun to watch!

WWE style is a much different platform than other wrestling companies. Each wrestler wrestles under strict rules that fans never know.

NXT is its own kind of animal, and you're never quite sure how much of that transfers over into WWE and into Monday Night Raw.

When something special happens in wrestling, it's that much more special to me and for me to go, 'That was awesome,' because I'm as bitter as there is, so if you can get me to go, 'Woah, that was cool,' a couple of times, it's a special show.

People go into that arena, and they know the fix is in. They know what pro wrestling or sports entertainment is. That being said, they want it executed to the highest level so that they can suspend their disbelief and buy in, and so, in a world of make believe, you make people believe in you. It's as real as it can be.

So, I never actually had a problem with Melina and we worked a lot together. When she came to SmackDown, we worked a program together.

I'm not someone who concerns himself with whether people pay to cheer Roman Reigns or whether people pay to boo Roman Reigns. People pay to see Roman Reigns. They pay to react to Roman Reigns.

In the grand spectrum of things in WWE, you are wrestling for that camera and that camera and that camera - and all the cameras they have - and you have to make things work that way because, through that camera, there's a million people watching.

The key to WWE's success and longevity is that they are, as modern and as relevant as the company may be in modern social media and platforms and contemporary distribution, the company is still built around old-school promotion. Who are these two fighters? Why are they wrestling? And why should I pay to see it?

You can't be a PPV star if you don't put on an exciting performance.

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

As a professional wrestler in the position I am in, I would rather have people remember my matches for an emotion or for a certain thought it evoked when they saw it.

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

Wrestling went from being sometimes comical to very serious, and there was a lot of depth regarding the vastness in which people performed.