Johnny Gargano Quotes

I have been a wrestler now for 12 years, and now I am reaching this peak at the top of the mountain - WrestleMania.

I have kind of reached the pinnacle of wrestling.

I was a young age, 16 years old, in Mexico. I traveled to these different countries, and I have the new style from Mexico and TNA. I wrestled two years in Florida, then back in Japan, and everything combined for a new style. It's different. I was looking for old school wrestling that looked new.

I started wrestling professionally, I did my first television match at 16, but I was wrestling at country fairs and national armories when I was 14.

I turned pro as a wrestler a few days after my last football game.

I'm going to be world champion and have a belt, and people will correctly be able to say I was the best instead of I was very good.

I was six years old and knew I wanted to be a wrestler.

I got to play first-team men's football from a young age.

As a kid I played in tournaments and my team won trophies but in my professional career I've not won anything yet. I'm hungry to get a medal around my neck.

But while Taya is so good, she is still no diamond. She is still no Tessa Blanchard. I am one of the best in the world!

I mean I had accomplished a goal I had set at 10 years old, I told my mom at that time that I was going to be a wrestler one day, and I was going to be champion, everyone looked at me like I was crazy.

I first started pro wrestling right after I got out of college at the University of Michigan, so I was in that frame of mind where I wanted to wrestle with my brother.

I started traveling around the world by myself by the time I got to 14. I worked really hard because I knew what my goal was, which was to be in WWE.

Vince Russo stuck up for me in WCW when it came down to who should be world champ. From what I've heard, there was a meeting, and Russo stood up for me. I would not be six-time world champion if it were not for Vince Russo. I would not even be one-time world champion if it weren't for Vince Russo.

New York, specifically, has been very good to me throughout my wrestling career.

I've had my day in the sunshine with wrestling.

All my life I wanted to be WWE champion, so when I won that, that was great.

I've been part of so many pay-per-views, and I've been in the ring with John Cena and Dean Ambrose and Randy Orton and Chris Jericho and Roman Reigns... all the top names. And I've been Intercontinental champion twice.

If I aspire to be the king of WWE, one day if I keep working at it, I will be the king of WWE.

The Big Show and Mark Henry and even John Cena helped me along my journey.

Any time I get to wrestle Sasha, I always want to do it.

Me and Kyle O'Reilly have wrestled all around the world. We've done good work.

I plan on headlining WrestleMania by WrestleMania 35.

I hope Seth Rollins becomes the safest, best wrestler in the world. And I wish him all the luck in the world.

I got into this business for one reason, and I stayed in this business for one reason: To be the World Heavyweight Champion. I think if you are in professional wrestling, and you don't have that dream or aspire to be the best and carry that World Heavyweight Championship, then you are in the wrong business.