Wrestler

I feel like a lot of fans would like to see me with the heavyweight championship.

I loved wrestling in Philly. It was such an exciting time in my life. That really helped me grow and think differently. It was also just a lot of fun.

Sometimes there's cities where it's just hard to find healthy food. You just have to be prepared.

I don't do really well in cities, which is crazy given that we're flying in and out of these major cities every week.

I've always thought Shawn Michaels's story is fascinating.

I keep trying to convince people that I'm OK to wrestle, and I think that's probably the hard part. A lot of times I'm trying to convince myself, too, that I can wrestle. It's really hard, because the concussion issue is very subjective, and that's the part that a lot of people don't understand.

I'm bigger now than when I was eating meat. My lifts in the gym are better. I'm in better shape.

I'm pretty much friendly and compassionate to everybody. But not to people in the ring.

I'm not somebody who is genetically gifted when it comes to facial hair.

I loved playing football, but I hated the games because it's a lot of pressure. I just loved putting on the pads and hitting my friends.

I don't want to live my life to entertain other people. I have other things that I'd like to do.

Seeing your baby in pain and seeing them crying and that sort of thing, and you're tired, and you can do nothing about it - that's, like, one of the most demoralizing things I can think of.

WWE doesn't owe us anything.

I didn't really grow up playing video games. I had an original Nintendo after the original Nintendo was cool.

I will say this about the Miz: Even though I don't like his wrestling style, he is a very hard worker. I have a huge amount of respect for him, and I want him to do well.

As you write about your life, there's a lot of things that you think about that you regret. It's interesting, because one of the things I regret the most is spending so much time focused on wrestling as opposed to focusing on my family.

One of the wonderful things about wrestling, to me, is that you can protect people who have had head injuries.

When I was in high school, I started getting into Japanese wrestling. For me to watch those matches, I had to order VHS tapes through catalogues, and these tapes were, like, $20 each.

Wrestling is different to me. As I talk to other wrestlers, wrestling seems a little different to me than it does to a lot of them. To me, it's about an artistic performance and about honing my artistic performance in pursuit of these minute moments of perfection. These little encapsulations. And none of them are ever perfect.

I really don't know life without wrestling.