Pro wrestling has always been ingrained into American culture. It was one of the first things that was ever on television, so everybody watched it. Countless people tell me, 'I got into wrestling because my grandfather watched it.' It was always there.

I'm the kind of guy that jumps at an opportunity.

Obviously, I carved out a pretty successful path and career for myself. But I'm kind of fascinated with, for lack of a better term, Renaissance men. And women. People who do a lot of different things.

Of course I'm happy with my time in professional wrestling. I met some great people, I met my wife, and I wouldn't trade it for the world.

I hate teaming up with people. Absolutely hate it.

I'm certainly not a baby kissing, hand slapping, rah rah good guy. I definitely think there's more of an edge to my character.

Winning is different based on your perspective, just like success is different based on your perspective.

I do envision myself having kids one day, and I always wanted a little girl.

Punk rock and straight edge will always be married together. As far as me integrating that with wrestling, I learned a lot from punk rock.

I've always had an extremely passionate fan base.

I grew up a wrestling fan, so to be doing what my 'heroes' were doing when I was a kid, it's fun. I have fun out there.

Something I'm completely not open to is remaking movies.

When I stopped wrestling, I literally lay in bed for two weeks.

When I started wrestling, I never wanted to go to WWE. It was the Japanese life for me.

I read 'Preacher' once a year.

To me, Punisher is pretty black and white. He's very simple, and at the same time, he's very complex. I don't know why I think I understand the guy, but I feel I do.

When someone else is making money off of you and using your body, you need to step off the carousel.

Black cats cross my path all the time. I'll break a mirror. I have no regard for superstition.

I wouldn't expect anybody to look for superawesome crisp technique out of me.

I did not wake up one day and say, 'I wanna be famous.' I did not wake up and say, 'I wanna be a UFC fighter.' I woke up and said, 'I want to be successful at something I want to do. I want to fight.'

I remember always loving the bad guy Shawn Michaels. Everyone else always hated when he played the bad guy, but there was just something about that character I connected with.

Fame is an apparition. Fame is a side effect of success.

I think, at some point in my wrestling career, I took myself way too seriously, and I took the wrestling business way too seriously. It probably helped sour me on the whole process. It probably helped burn me out.

The only thing I've ever bought with the money I've made is my house.

I believe you only have one chance on this earth, and I'm just trying to live my life and do what makes me happy.

There's such a wide demographic who watches the WWE. And everybody's into something different.

I can be hard on myself, and I can get down on myself.

I don't get why people love to hate John Cena. But as long as he gets a reaction that's positive or negative, he's doing his job.

I jumped to the WWE, and the perceived notion was I became more successful. I got to touch more people's lives and influence more people and perform in front of more people, and that was a great thing.

On fight night, you show up. And the question becomes, 'Did you or did you not do the work that is going to prepare you for what is about to occur?' And I just think that's a beautiful thing.

Being out there in a high-pressure situation with a live audience and a live TV camera on you, it brings something out.

WWE doesn't do anything to protect the wrestlers; they do things to protect themselves.

I have a Wii at home that I mainly play 'Punch-Out!' on.

I think you could split my fans up just like any other guy's fans. Some of them are cool, and some of them are obnoxious. But it's the variety that makes it great.

No one wants to get beat up in front of the world.

I have a special place in my heart for the Straight Edge Society. Never reached its full potential.

I don't measure myself against my coaches, I don't measure myself against my teammates. If I'm doing jiu-jitsu for sport, I don't measure myself against the guy I'm rolling with or whatever belt he is or how many stripes he has on his belt. I measure myself every day against the guy I was yesterday.

I'm going to be that gnarly guy that gets in somebody's face and makes it ugly. I'm a bit of a grinder.

It's easy to quit. It's easy to not get something that you want and just say, 'Well, that didn't work out,' and move on to the next thing.

In pro wrestling, it's fake. People always get offended by that word. 'No, we like to say it's pre-determined.' For whatever reason, people get angry at 'fake'; 'pre-determined' eases the blow? It's fake. At the end of the day, it doesn't really mean anything.

Passive-aggressive is the worst thing in the world to me!

My life used to be governed by that. I would know what day it was because I would be at 'Monday Night Raw' or 'SmackDown' on Tuesday.

I think anything you do on your own, so to speak, I think, is worth more than something that is maybe looked upon as gifted to you or handed to you.

The Shield was my idea.

I'm not a money guy.

I know people who are wealthy and they're miserable.

What I do on international flights is watch crappy, sappy love movies... Sometimes they're so bad, it's laughable. It kills time.

I'm a hopeless romantic.

Any praise goes to my coaches and my teammates. I have the easy part of waking up and going to the gym. They're the ones that have to break my bad habits and teach me new things. They're literally my everything. In my personal life, it's my wife, and in my professional life, it's my coaches and my teammates.

I'm a huge fan of anything Ed Brubaker does. A lot of his 'Daredevil' stuff. A lot of his creator-owned stuff, too. His 'Criminal stuff,' I'm really into.