Shane Douglas Quotes

I held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing.

I always laugh at these companies that have these rules saying, 'You're only allowed to have this or that on your desk.' It's no fun to work at a place like that.

When authority itself is in question, the middle gives way.

I have great respect for the authorities.

Dad worked in the same shop, behind the same counter, five or six days a week, for 38 years, and hated it.

It's not a male-dominated anything... It's WWE, and it's for anybody.

The gatekeepers don't control the gates, and the powers that be aren't as powerful.

The whole conversation of my work has to do with power and who has it.

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

I don't care where you go or what company you work for - and I've pretty much worked for them all - WWE by far is the most brutal road schedule in the world. It takes a special kind of individual to navigate that and be able to thrive in that environment. It's a challenge that I've enjoyed.

I hate management. I hate management. I just do.

I love fashion. Actually, funny story, I used to give the 'Esquire Big Black Book' to young wrestlers when they would join the WWE, because they needed to know how to dress.

It's the WWE; it's Vince McMahon's show. He lays out what he wants from you. It's not always going to be what I want.

Timing is everything in wrestling and when I was with the WWE it just wasn't the right time. I was unhappy and I decided to look for opportunities elsewhere.

I remember the first time I stepped into a WWE ring, and I got critiqued, and I was told I'd be gone in three months. Here I sit ten years later, and I'm the Intercontinental champion.

We had a show called NXT, and Daniel Bryan was my rookie, and I was his pro. And the object was for the pros teach the rookies what it's like to be a WWE Superstar. As soon as that hit the Internet, the Internet thought it was absurd: 'How dare WWE put Daniel Bryan as Miz's rookie? Daniel Bryan should be the pro.'

WCW and WWE were two totally different environments. A lot of guys in WCW were making a lot of money, and the work schedule wasn't that hard. You had to earn it in WWE.

I always welcome being part of something positive in WWE.

I enjoyed 12-plus years in TNA, but in the end, I didn't like being there doing what I was doing. That was my issue. I needed to get away.

I didn't mind when Paul Wight came to me and said WWE offered him $1 million a year for ten years. I was like, 'Dude, you need to take that. You need to go now. Lemme give you a ride to the airport.'

When I first got to WWE, the head of talent relations was John Laurinaitis, who is now my father-in-law, and the first thing I thought when I saw everything that he had to do is, I thought, 'I would never, in a million years, ever want that job. You could not pay me enough money to have that job.'

Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with

He's the president. I'm the general. Unless I want to get impeached, I got to do what he says.

I view the director as my boss. I'm the pawn on the chess board. I don't say something to the director easily, because they are my boss.

On the road, the WWE is a family. The divas are my sisters, and like any big brother, I don't want creeps around my little sisters.