Booker T Quotes

I try not to and I don't think I ever have just jumped at any opportunity because a company wanted me. Just because there was money on the table doesn't mean that I took it.

I've tried to make it a thing where they, somebody in WWE, needs me or wants me there. And if I do my job well, it becomes a thing, and I just try to make it a reality, I guess. And I'm just trying not to get released.

It starts this way: The worth of a job is not defined by what it allows you to do when you're not working.

I love to not work. I like to travel. I work maybe half the year, no more.

For me, I have to say that I like to work a lot too, but I like not working better. The perfect scenario is when you just worked and you know something's coming up, then you have four, five, six months off. But you know you're going to have a job later.

I would pay to do what I do if I had to.

I'm off at least three or four days a week, so it's a perfect job, really.

If someone said I had enough money and I could take six months off, I would run in an instant.

If I don't work for a while, I don't work for a while.

When I wake up on a Monday morning and I realise I don't have to go and work at the civil service, I really think I've won.

North Carolina has been so great because nobody asks me about work.

I think when you're done with work, you go home.

WWE asked me to be a coach 3 times before I left.

I work to go on vacation. Hopefully, the more money I make, my vacations will get a little longer to the point where they last a year.

That's actually the main reason I decided to leave WWE: the brutal schedule that you have when you work for a company like WWE.

When you spend a lot of time in your job, you realize you're just selling your time in exchange for money.

You've gotta realize this - you could be working at Burger King or working for the biggest wrestling company in the world.

On the plus side, leaving Leeds meant I have been able to spend a lot of time with the family, enjoying a very rare summer off and my first Christmas without work worries since I was a teenager. I was also able to accept an offer to work with BT Sport.

I do recall at one point being part of WWE and other guys taking the risk of stepping away, and a lot of guys don't do it because of the fear that it's not going to be the same.

I'm pretty happy with my career. I just know what I'm capable of.

Well I guess I always look at other people who have maybe more traditional jobs and I think gosh their weeks are so much more stressful and busy than mine.

I really like working, the opportunity to work with good people and to play interesting parts.

We, as wrestlers, need to remember that this is a business. We started because we love the business, and we stay in it because we have a lot of passion for it, but you have to be rewarded for your work.

Anytime you want to take time off from a job that millions of brothers work so hard to get here, that's not being humble.

WWE has given me an out where, any days off that I have, they allow me to work on outside projects.