Jim Ross Quotes

I have nothing but respect for Adam Cole. I've known him for a very long time, and he's one of the best in the world.

John Smith from Oklahoma State was the greatest American wrestler of all time.

Daniel Bryan is a guy I'd like to mix it up with at some point - Tyson Kidd, Kevin Owens. You know, we have a lot of history in NXT, and he's another guy I've known for a long time, so there's so many different options.

One thing I have to admit, regardless of what my character thinks, is that EC3 is a very talented individual. He is going to be a cornerstone of Impact Wrestling for a long time.

I want to be Intercontinental Champion. I also want to be a tag-team champion.

My brother was going to go to England to wrestle, but then we found out they were opening a wrestling school in Bray, County Wicklow. I thought, 'I'll go along and try that.'

Being a Paul Heyman Guy wouldn't be such a bad thing!

I'm wrestling almost every single day of the week. I'm fighting for so much more. I'm trying to capture a life here, a future. I'm trying to put my kid in college. There are so many things I'm doing. I'm representing the biggest wrestling family on earth.

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

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

I've been a top guy since I walked in - since I beat John Cena in my first match.

When I got hurt - I broke my back in a match in London, England - I had to retire and became just a commentator.

For a long time, we had Raw and SmackDown, and there wasn't really anything else. The NXT Universe kinda opened up channels for wrestlers to come in from the independent circuits, like myself.

Tracy Smothers was the epitome of the perfect Smoky Mountain hero. He was legitimate.

I got to doing this thing with the Wyatt Family, and I don't remember having this much fun in the ring in a long time.

I thought my sports career was over once I got into a wheelchair. That was the hardest reality I had to face.

Chris Jericho is a guy who I grew up really appreciating what he did in the ring.

I think of Bret Hart as somebody who held the Intercontinental championship like it was the World Heavyweight championship. Every title match he was in felt important, like it was the most important thing on the show. The way he carried himself and the matches he had, it was just everything I thought a champion should be.

I've always wanted to entertain people, and when I was in school, I was interested in creative writing, but wrestling was always there. When I ran into financial problems, I just figured when life gives you lemons, you have to make lemonade.

I remember having the opportunity to meet Ivory, as a kid, and she was the first woman's wrestler that I met. She looked at me and said, 'I'm going to see you in the ring one day, aren't I?'

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 not addicted to wrestling anymore. For a long time, I was.

I would like to wrestle some guys again like Dolph Ziggler, Ken Anderson, and many others in the business.

I think, Randy Orton, he has obviously been around a long time, but I think Randy Orton can be a terrific heel.

Seth Rollins is one of the hardest-working wrestlers I've ever seen.