Sheamus Quotes

My whole career, I've been fighting wrestlers. If you look back, all of my fights have been against wrestlers.

I come from a wrestling background but don't really use it in most of my fights.

There's nothing appealing about the Elimination Chamber. When I first walked into it, I was terrified. You start out the match in these pods, and you're just watching everyone go at it, waiting for your time.

People haven't seen the wars, in UFC, that I've had in Strikeforce and what I am capable of.

When I started wrestling, I never wanted to go to WWE. It was the Japanese life for me.

I used to be in a street fight at least twice a week, so locking me in a cage with somebody, with a set of rules and a referee to jump in if something get ugly, and a time limit, like, it don't scare me.

If you do your history, pro wrestling is just the worked version of what MMA is.

Pro wrestling has absolutely helped my fighting.

I've wrestled some of the best wrestlers in the world - both male and female.

I've been in the fight business my whole life. I know fighters.

I'm not the only guy who doesn't have an independent wrestling background. You know, I have a football background, but I also have a wrestling one.

I would want to fight in the UFC or Bellator. Why CM Punk? Anyone, just a worthy adversary. It can't be a world-class fighter.

For many many years, the MMA world shunned on the pro wrestling world. They shunned on us for getting action figures and whatnot.

Wrestling-wise, I've wrestled a lot of the girls that I've really wanted to, like Natalya and Emma.

I would say Chael Sonnen would be a natural for professional wrestling.

I wrestled my guys growing up. I've wrestled with Hulk Hogan. I've wrestled against Shawn Michaels. I've wrestled against Ric Flair.

I can tell you this, and I'm 100 percent sure: 90 percent of the people working for WWE have never been in a real fight in their lives.

I would say, look, any fighter that's out there or any star athlete - not star athlete in the sense of a baseball player, but like a Brock Lesnar - that really wants to fight, we're going to have a conversation with them. Because if they can move the needle, we're going to want them on Spike TV.

First and foremost, that was always my passion: I wanted to wrestle, but unfortunately, it took me down a road that I can't do that anymore.

When I started, I learned the European style because that's what I wrestled the most.

Ronda Rousey, arguably... I mean, she might've been the one that actually started the whole 'Divas Revolution' by being so awesome in UFC.

Even though MMA and pro wrestling are very different, at the end of the day, it's all about entertaining. They are amazing athletes who go out there and give 100 percent.

Wrestling used to be land of the giants and I think MMA has opened he door for smaller, more athletic competitors to climb up the card in wrestling and be top draws and main event.

I love tag team wrestling, and it's different than all the other matches.

I actually think that wrestling is much harder than MMA, to be honest.