Austin Aries Quotes

Tag team wrestling is what put myself, Edge, the Hardys and the Dudleys all on the map. It made us into WWE superstars, and without that, I don't think that my singles career would have gone to the places it went to.

The Attitude Era was so great because you had the best collection of superstars of any one time period. You had The Rock, Stone Cold, Undertaker, Mick Foley.

If you say John Smith is the greatest wrestler in Oklahoma history, now that's big.

It was acting, and WWE is the longest-running weekly episodic program in television. Sure, there are story lines that are better than others.

You have to think about the WWE as soap operas.

I'd love to go into WWE and have a real knock and see what's what.

As a kid, I loved watching it. I used to watch with my sisters and my brothers. We watched WWE all the time.

I affirmatively have watched WWE programming my whole entire life!

When I was around nine, my parents took me to my first live event, which was a WWE show with Ultimate Warrior. From then on, I loved it.

I have a lot of respect for the folks over at WWE, and I have a ton of respect for what they've accomplished within the industry.

People can say what they want about WWE. Paul Levesque, Vince McMahon, Michael Cole - they all gave me another life by bringing me back to call NXT. That's where I should have been in the beginning.

I've done so much for the WWE. Everything I've done, any movie I've done, any notoriety I have, it's because of them.

Many people ask me about WWE and if I'd go to WWE in the future. They ask me if I'm going now. I will not go. I want to make New Japan Pro-Wrestling bigger.

You have Superstars, and then you have mega Superstars. Brock Lesnar is a mega Superstar.

Memphis is like the heart of wrestling.

I love 'SmackDown.'

The sky is truly the limit for WWE.

I was always a huge WWF wrestling fan, and Hulk Hogan was one of my biggest heroes.

The Rock 'n' Roll Express and the '80s NWA crew; Ric Flair and the Four Horsemen, Magnum TA, Dusty Rhodes - that was a great crew of talent and they were all so great to work with.

Growing up, I idolized Big Boss Man and Bam Bam Bigelow just because they were big guys who could move and were tough. I felt like they both rode motorcycles. And Bam Bam had his head tattooed. Those are the guys who really got me into wrestling.

You've got some very unique individuals in the WWE, and it's a completely different nexus on 'SmackDown' than it is on 'Raw.'

I watched WWE as a child. I was a fan.

I kind of thought eventually, someday, somehow, I would be Hall of Fame, whether it was nWo, DX, or whatever, and honestly, I thought it would probably happen when I was no longer around.

I started watching wrestling when I was eight, and I only watched the WWE as a kid.

For those of you who weren't a part of the era of ECW, understand, you're looking at the guy that made ECW what ECW was. So, simply put, I'm as close to royalty in this sport as it comes.