If you're not getting better, you're getting worse.

We're always out there to put on the best show possible.

I think I was given an opportunity, and I ran with it. I think I've made a lot more of it than anybody thought I was going to, and that's why it's gone so well, but it's opened a lot of doors and a lot of eyes to what I can do.

When I won the United States Championship at Hell in a Cell, it was awesome. It was my first championship ever in WWE, so it's a really cool moment for me.

When I left NXT, I was kind of mad that I was never NXT champ, so when I got to the main roster, that was my first goal.

John Cena - say what you want about the guy, but he is unbelievable in every aspect of WWE: what he does with kids from Make-A-Wish and to how he controls a ring and a crowd in the moment.

If you look up what I did in Arizona, you'll see that I fought my way through training camp. I didn't have a problem fighting my teammates.

If I have a friend - when I have a match, and you have a match with that person - then most people hold back. I'm not.

I'm not going to shed a tear for not being liked.

The fact that people don't like me doesn't bother me.

I learned to get what I wanted through any means necessary, and sometimes that means you have to get your hands dirty.

I am extremely tough and extremely physical, and that is because my father taught me to be tough, physical, and not to take no for an answer.

My dad brought me up not to accept second place. I lost a karate tournament once and got a trophy for fourth place. My dad tossed that trophy out the window on the way home.

When I go to the ring, I'm providing for my family.

I love the physicality of an offensive lineman.

People in athletics thrive on competition. That's what makes you better.

Going to that level, a lot of guys get to the NFL, and they don't make a long career out of it. The NFL is very hard. One percent of college athletes make it to the NFL.

If I walk into a room, and nobody knows who I am, and they've never seen wrestling a day in their life, I want everybody in that room to look at me and go, 'That guy does something. He is somebody important.'

Cry all you want. It's never going to change where I am.

What you see of me on TV and all of that, that is me - that's truly how I feel. I'm just multiplying it. It's that arrogance, that confidence, the belief that I'm the best, and there's a true attitude that I don't care what others think.

For those of you who don't know who I am, I don't care.

Wrestling is an opportunity to go to a show, be a part of it, and feel the emotions from anger to frustration to sadness to pain - everything that music can make you feel.

I grew up going to rock shows, and the lines of rock n' roll cross over with wrestling so much.

I got to travel to Japan. I never in my life thought I would go to Japan.