Matt Sydal Quotes

We all just want NXT to be the best product we can do. I don't care about what's going on anywhere else, we just get on with what we do, which is competitive pro wrestling and that's what NXT is.

WWE is like showbiz boot camp.

I've always loved the showmanship of professional wrestling. While I love making movies, I love that platform, too.

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.

I love wrestling, and I think there was something in me that needed to come out, and I was very fortunate to allow it to come out in the WWE and make a living doing that, and I enjoyed every second of that.

In North America, there aren't too many big places to go, so you find that pretty much all of the best talent in the world ends up filtering through WWE.

WWE is something I've had my eye on.

To me, OVW was one of my favorite periods in my career. I felt like I was on the greatest adventure of all time. I was there five months before WWE developmental moved down to Florida.

The WWE is the be-all and end-all of sports entertainment. They just do things right.

I always knew that in the U.S., if you wanted to be a wrestler, Ring of Honor was the place to be.

I love wrestling. I love WWE. I love being a part of something special every single night we go out there.

Just the extent of the reach that the WWE Universe has around the world is incredible.

The NXT environment is so competitive.

I think, at every professional wrestler's heart, there's a fan.

I always welcome being part of something positive in WWE.

There is this energy, a lifeblood energy that runs through Ring of Honor.

I think the wrestling world needs TNA. I think the wrestlers need TNA. I think the fans need TNA.

I think I would have liked to have experienced the whole NXT thing.

WWE prepares you for everything in entertainment. It's the truth. You need a host? Get a WWE Superstar. You need someone for an action movie, a comedy movie, a drama movie, you get a WWE Superstar. Because these guys are the most well-versed, well-trained, and hardest working guys out there.

I think it's cool to be able to show people who don't know anything about NJPW what we do.

Stampede Wrestling was a promotion started by my grandfather, Stu Hart. When I was competing for them, I would come out 'through the curtain,' slapping everyone's hands to my ring song, Cyndi Lauper's 'Girls Just Want to Have Fun.'

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.

I can't tell you how many spot shows little Johnny Nitro, like, pulled the chair out in the arena in Shelbyville Fair and did a moonsault only to get chewed out by Rip Rogers and Jim Cornette about it. I mean, I did years of it.

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

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