Matt Riddle Quotes

I knew I wanted to be a wrestler, so I became the best wrestler in wrestling history.

If you can believe it, I had no intentions of being a wrestler.

The Performance Center in Orlando is the best place to go if you want to be a professional wrestler.

My true love is with amateur wrestlin;, that's where I was born. I've always wanted to wrestle.

I was always a fan of wrestling, right from the time I was nine or so. But eventually I decided I wanted to do professional wrestling myself, not just watch.

Pro wrestling has always been my passion. I always wanted to be a pro wrestler.

When I first broke in, I wanted to be the best technical wrestler on the planet.

The best wrestler in the world is me.

To go from a small wrestling dojo to the Performance Center was just mind-blowing. The sheer scale - I didn't think anything like that could possibly exist.

I started out with Buzz Sawyer in Sacramento. He had me shoot on guys and beat them up. They tossed me a few bones here and there. But, after Buzz passed away, I started seeking training elsewhere.

I always wanted to be the worst wrestler on the shows I was on so I could just learn from the guys above me, and that's a great way to be in your first few years of wrestling.

I've loved wrestling from the first moment I stepped between the ropes. Don't know where I'd be without it.

I wanted to be a wrestler since before I can remember.

In the ring-wise, I've learned a lot from working with Bayley.

I wrestled in Detroit many times before getting to WWE.

I've wrestled just about everybody there is to wrestle, done just about every character reincarnation that I can come up with.

I started training when I was a senior in high school. I trained at the Combat Zone Wrestling Academy in South Philadelphia.

I did a year and a half of independent wrestling before I got into the WWE. It was nothing really. I didn't make the towns. I don't even say I was an indy wrestler.

I don't think I'd be in WWE, and I wouldn't be in NXT, if it wasn't for my time in EVOLVE and Dragon Gate USA and things like that.

I was the first WWE developmental talent. When I moved to Connecticut to start training, I had no idea what wrestling was other than what I saw as a fan.

I dream of wrestling all the time.

When you have such a love and passion for wrestling and you love to work, you want to get in with good workers.

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

My dad was a wrestler in high school. He was really good and had a great amateur background, but it was always his dream to be in the WWE.

I'm a professional wrestler at heart, and I miss it.