Matt Riddle Quotes

As great as Hulk Hogan was, he still wasn't that great a worker.

It's not my fault Hulk Hogan is afraid of me.

I owe a lot to Roddy Piper.

I just wanted to stay Harley Race in the wrestling world, worldwide, and that is what I did for a long time.

That's why John Cena was No. 1 for so many years. Because every time John got in the ring with somebody, he made them better than they were.

Chris Jericho was always someone I looked up to. I was a WWE fan growing up, and I remember his debut.

Ron Simmons had a lot to do with Rock's success.

It would be a huge loss to the wrestling industry and for those of us that have made our living in this industry to lose someone like Ric Flair.

I'll tell you upfront, I think Shawn Michaels was probably the most gifted worker the business has ever seen.

Jake 'The Snake' Roberts, man - brilliant mind.

In wrestling, if there is a legend, Roddy Piper is a legend, no doubt about it. Nobody was ever like he was.

WWE is my home, and I will always stay with the WWE in some part, whether it's an ambassador, or maybe one day you'll see Nikki Bella as a GM, and no one can touch me.

Once I saw Roddy Piper I knew exactly what I was going to be doing when I grew up.

I'll tell you right now, man, if WWE was to call me and say, 'Hey, Book, we want you to do a match with 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin,' I'd do it!

Pretty much my entire life has been played out in front of wrestling fans, even the stuff - I guess you could say the legend and lore - which has grown.

Winning the Intercontinental Title for the first time, in 2010, was a real milestone, as I grew up living off some of those Intercontinental Title matches.

Daniel Bryan is someone who I definitely think I can have good matches with.

Ric Flair is an old nemesis of mine.

There is this great, great wrestler, who never really got an opportunity to be a star, named Len Denton: he was a masked guy called The Grappler. He was one of my favorite guys to ever wrestle, and it was just a tremendous pleasure to step in the ring with him.

I'm the man that made wrestling famous.

I love Vince McMahon. He came up with the Kurt Angle character. He ran with it, and then I was able to run with it. I thank him for the opportunity he gave me. Vince McMahon was one of my best friends, period.

That feeling is one of the things that keep me going. On July 6, 1998, I became the WCW heavyweight champion of the world!

Johnny Saint is someone who I studied as a kid.

Undertaker, for almost as long as many of us have been watching WWE, he's been part of it.

I was thankful that TNA saw the potential in me and put me in a position to fulfill something like winning the World Heavyweight Championship.