Dana Davis Quotes

People who've never played a sport in their life come to WWE and can kick butt. On the other hand, people who've played football or some other professional sport can come here and get in the ring and not do what we do. It's a different tango.

When I was in England, I did a lot of wrestling and moves. Over here, they were like, 'You don't need to do that much. Save your body. Become an entertainer rather than a wrestler.' And I wasn't used to wrestling on TV and in front of huge crowds, so it was a big adjustment.

Wrestlers are very protective and care about what we do and we're always fighting for credibility.

Believe it or not, I kind of went into professional wrestling so I could get an avenue into acting.

WWE is a space where I thrived, and I loved, and I still do. I love connecting with an audience; that is the greatest thing about going back to WWE.

Wrestling's a form of expression, and it expresses vastness.

You watch some of the stuff Cesaro does in the ring; with his size, the way he moves around the ring, the moves he hits, the way he picks up guys twice his size. It's just a different level.

The whole wrestling art, it's a whole form, is performance, and that's what makes it so exciting to do.

I don't like to use the word 'fake.' A lot of our stuff is choreographed. But there is a lot of physicality that happens during the course of a match and our careers. There's a lot of physicality that happens to us and you can't deny that.

Sometimes you experience magic out in the ring.

There have always been extraordinarily tough men in the business of sports-entertainment. My view is that one can't be in the sports-entertainment business successfully and long term without being tough.

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

I get more respect doing professional wrestling than I ever did in MMA.

In the grand spectrum of things in WWE, you are wrestling for that camera and that camera and that camera - and all the cameras they have - and you have to make things work that way because, through that camera, there's a million people watching.

Acting is a big ambition, but I still have a professional wrestling world to conquer.

I'm an artist, a performer... There's an art to what we do to the wrestling... I don't want to really fight anybody.

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.

My goal is go out, try and be an entertainer, try to have the best match I can but be smart about it. If people are enjoying it, enjoying what I'm doing, then that's awesome because I'm enjoying what I'm doing, and I'm very passionate about what I'm doing.

You are an athlete if you are a dancer.

I don't like to have gimmicks. I don't like to have gadgets and stuff. I just like to go out there and entertain the fans by wrestling.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be either a rock star or a wrestler.

My home is at the WWE. I truly do love performing. The atmosphere here isn't like anything else. It's truly where I belong.

It's good to go out and entertain these people, and you've got them on the edge of their seat, they're standing up. Then you know that you've done your job, you've entertained them. My way of entertaining them is going out and wrestling. Everyone's got their different ways.

I get a lot of influence from pro wrestling. People are like, 'Oh, it's fake.' But it's not about whether the guy wins or loses, it's about how he entertains you the whole time you're watching.

I'm in professional wrestling, which is what I do for a living. I coordinate stunts. I memorize them.