Robert Maillet Quotes

People ask, 'How can you let a defeat hurt you so much?' But it comes back to the effort you have put into your career as a youngster.

Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.

My WWE career has been amazing. It took a lot of time for me to get here, and you never stop paying your dues.

I was 15 years old when I started wrestling full time, and I know what I had to go through to get here.

Wrestling was my way of making a living. I did the very best I could.

Being part of WWE is beautiful. You're on the biggest stage of them all. You're living well; you're making good money, and the only flipside to that is that you're on the grind, and you've got to be committed. You've got to make sure to understand what being on the grind is.

I've been involved in professional wrestling since 2000 when I started training and there hasn't been one day that I haven't put everything into it.

People really don't understand how hard it is and what it takes to be a WWE Superstar.

All I know is professional wrestling and sports entertainment. This is all I know, and I wanted to give it everything that I had.

As an athlete, you have to become quite selfish with your time and your body and your training.

This isn't a business that you can pick up in a few weeks. This takes years of commitment, dedication, passion, and hard work. With that is WWE's road schedule that doesn't provide for enough in-ring time for the divas to develop.

Training is what sacrifices. I see that in my body.

You are on the road so much when on the main roster that you don't have time for anything else. But wrestling will always be a huge passion for me.

When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do.

The fans know that I have been giving it my all and that we had the good judgment to when to say when.

People who are fit are the same as anyone else. The only difference is their level of commitment. If looking good and being fit was easy, everyone would do it! Most people don't want to put in the work or make the sacrifices needed in order to be fit.

The holidays are important, but the path I've chosen doesn't take that into consideration. I do what I can to enjoy them, but it's one of the sacrifices of being an athlete.

I had sacrificed my entire life to play football.

Hit a home run - put your head down, drop the bat, run around the bases, because the name on the front is more - a lot more important than the name on the back.

Sacrifice counts for a lot in sport. From a young age, I couldn't do the normal things that the boys of my age get to do. Maybe you have a nice car or a nice house, but at times you just want to be a normal guy and you can't.

I hope that people look at my whole career and appreciate that I've given everything that I've got.

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

I've been on television since I was about 17. I had opportunities - one major opportunity I blew in my 20s. Once I started down this pathway, it was a case of not letting anyone stop me. Not my wife, not my family. It was getting too late to give it a small percentage. I had to give it one hundred percent.

One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.

Concert dance is the hardest kind of dance. We tour constantly, around the world, year in and year out. It just doesn't work for everybody. It's the lifestyle, it's the stamina, it's the love, it's the dedication, it's the commitment, it's all those words.