I was pretty happy with what we were able to do on 'SmackDown.' It was one of the best, most fun runs of my career because it was essentially a new show.

Brock Lesnar likes to get his rest time, you know what I'm saying?

If you're really good at doing what you do, good things will come.

From day one, The Shield was a vehicle. It wasn't, 'This is what we're doing for the rest of our lives.' It was, 'This is the vehicle we'll use to bust into WWE, to ride to the top of it, and then we fight each other.' That was always the plan.

I hate in-ring promos. I've never done a promo in WWE that I liked.

I like wrestling 30 minutes a night.

You have these magical moments in these live events that are never captured on film and that only live on in your memory. Those are always my favorite.

I never pictured myself being liked by anybody.

I remember, the first times watching WWF, Bret Hart was kind of the man, winning King of the Ring, technical master, and he could go for an hour. He had a million different moves he could beat anyone with. Just rugged, dynamic champion. He was so cool.

While it's cool to think ghosts exist, I don't want to see one.

WWE prepares you for so much other stuff in entertainment.

I always liked the guys who lasted a long time in the match and had endurance. People like Ric Flair going an hour at the 1992 Rumble, or Shawn Michaels and the British Bulldog being one and two in 1995 and both lasting until the end.

I don't look any further than what's right in front of me.

Ziggler is one of those guys who don't get all of the credit he deserves for being so good consistently for so long.

You have to take a certain pride in your work.

I've been around in WWE for quite a while now and before that had - even in Florida - I've been all around the world and seen every type of style in opponent; the way I was trained and stuff, I got a lot more tricks up my sleeve.

I'll fight anyone for enough money. Give me half a million dollars.

I had a hard time going to school. I probably wasn't the most pleasant young person to be around. I kept a very tight circle of trusted people.

I keep my inner circle of people very small and tight, and I like to relax if I get a chance.

I hate ladders. I don't mind heights, but I hate getting hit with ladders and falling into ladders. Anything where there are ladders involved or inanimate, unpredictable objects or multiple people gets dangerous.

No one really has any idea about me. To me, what I give you is what happens onscreen, and past that, anything you're coming up with in your own head, you're creating in your own mind.

I like, at the end of the night, to be walking back to the locker room limping and sweating, spitting blood out of my mouth. I've been doing this for a long time, and it comes naturally.

A lot of people say, 'It takes a lot to beat him,' or whatever. I'm trying to show you in the most literal terms, my body is indestructible, whether its glass or fire or barbed wire.

I had always previously really fed off of negativity and enjoyed being the guy who everybody hated.