John Layfield Quotes

I had a very good babyface run, but establishing a monster heel - which I think I would have excelled at - and a poor WrestleMania track record is a hard pill to swallow.

I don't think people realize how good Fit Finlay was. He was the best heel and probably the best worker I'd ever seen.

Amateur wrestling was never considered a big box office draw because they're really competing but they're not getting a chance to call each other 16 kinds of names before the fight to get you interested.

When I started out in wrestling, you have to start somewhere and you either start being the good guy or the bad guy. There is several cliches that follow that.

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

Daniel Bryan is a good athlete, but he's a better entertainer.

Once upon a time if you go back to the early 2000s all the way to 2014 all I cared about in life was being a wrestler, going on the road, performing in front of crowds, getting big, climbing the ladder.

I'm the classiest superstar ever in the WWE.

I didn't do choreographed fighting for a living. I was a professional wrestler for 15 years; there's a big difference.

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.

I was that 16-year-old who loved WWE, and I wanted to be a pro wrestler, but I didn't understand why I had to be the bad guy. I wanted to be like Jeff Hardy - I wanted to be like Rey Mysterio - but I was told I had to be the guy who screamed terrible things about America and attack people from behind.

Ivan Koloff was great. I had a lot of great matches with him.

When you see Bret Hart versus Steve Austin, it just seemed so much more real than Hulk Hogan versus Sgt. Slaughter.

I didn't know what a good technical wrestler was when I was little - it was people that made me scream or boo or cheer.

I've wrestled Kyle O'Reilly all over the world. I know how good he is, our fans know how good he is. A lot of people feel he is the next guy in line to be world champion.

I wasn't sure what I was getting into when I signed on to work with a wrestler.

It's kind of beating a dead horse if you're talking about going out and saying wrestling's fake, or this or that. People don't want to hear that. They want to hear, they wanted to find an inside story.

At one time, I wanted to be a WWE wrestler. I still do. I want to go in the ring once and mess around and jump off the ropes and do a Stone Cold stunt.

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

I never was in a wrestling ring before I stepped foot into a WWE ring, so I am a product of NXT.

Lio Rush, this little guy is a perfect heel manager, updated for modern times.

In the WWF, or the WWE as they call it now, the one thing that I was not able to capture was that heavyweight belt. I'm telling you, I want a chance to be able to go after that belt, but only if Brock Lesnar has it, or The Rock has it, or Kurt Angle has it.

CM Punk clearly established during his time as a Paul Heyman Guy that he was, as the billing suggested, The Best In The World.

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

When I was a kid, I said this is what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a wrestler.