Jeff Hardy Quotes

Playing the lead in a film where you shoot for three months away from home is not an easy thing for me when my children are in school and my husband is running a theatre company.

If you just do 50 to 60 shows a year, it's not that much time away from home.

I didn't want to be on the road for 210-220 days per year. That was one of my first things when I started having conversations with Impact Wrestling.

I don't enjoy the road life or WWE's really hectic schedule.

What we do in WWE is not a sacrifice. Being out on the road all the time, and all the bumps and bruises, that sort of thing is difficult but also a joy and a pleasure. It's brought so much happiness into my life. I wouldn't have it any other way.

The joke we always say is that WWE doesn't pay us to wrestle, they pay us to travel.

That's one of the reasons why I left WWE: not to feel tied up or pressured into fulfilling a certain number of work dates throughout the week or month - because of my injuries.

Once you sign on the dotted line, in terms of a contract with a musical, it's a huge commitment. When you're younger, that's fine; you can take it on, and I still go out, and I still sing 15-20 songs - and I can do that - a night.

That's actually the main reason I decided to leave WWE: the brutal schedule that you have when you work for a company like WWE.

WWE has given me an out where, any days off that I have, they allow me to work on outside projects.

My first time being inside the Performance Center was for the WWE Tough Enough tryouts, and although I knew hardly anything about sports-entertainment, I knew I wanted to be a part of this place.

I've no desire to be away from my family for 16 hours a day.

We're gone for 280, almost 300 days a year. So 70 to 80 days I'm home every year. Being an artist, you just gotta be ready to miss certain things, like Halloween and all these kind of things that you used to be able to be free for. Birthdays, all this kind of stuff.

I'm with WWE Superstars so much... more than my own family and we get on each other's nerves.

WCW and WWE were two totally different environments. A lot of guys in WCW were making a lot of money, and the work schedule wasn't that hard. You had to earn it in WWE.

I love working with Byron Saxton and Jerry Lawler, and I hope I continue to do so.

In my opinion nobody owns the patent on the art form of professional wrestling and the way it does its business.

With WWE, it's a massive machine, and you will air in 120 countries and have action figures and towels.

Everything is so fresh in WWE, it's hard to take it all in sometimes. I get moments when I'm riding the road late at night, and I get to reflect on my thoughts a little bit.

As much as I love the business and I love my fans, I don't want to be at every WrestleMania.

Loving entertainment but having our athletic talent, WWE seemed like the perfect fit for us.

If you're a Daniel Bryan fan, I'm all for that. The more people Daniel Bryan will bring into arenas, the better. The more people I bring in, the better. But when I'm talkin', shut the hell up and let me talk.

The nWo almost singlehandedly ruined the business as far as good guys, bad guys, cowboys, and Indians.

There are some times I'm really busy and other times I'm not, but I prefer to be really busy because I generally don't know what to do with myself when I'm not wrestling or on the road.

Professional wrestling, the WWE, and being in the Hall of Fame represent such a large part of Hulk's life, as does his connection to the audience.