"Me, Shinsuke Nakamura, and Lyoto Machida, former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion, all shared a two-bedroom apartment together."
"I love sweets. Like, every week of my life, I've had a cheat day."
"I'm bigger now than when I was eating meat. My lifts in the gym are better. I'm in better shape."
"A lot of people thought you couldn't be a top-level athlete as a vegan, but people like Mac Danzig and Jake Shields are proving that's wrong. And it's better for me as a performer."
"My diet is very kale-heavy. It's so nutrient-dense. I stay away from fake processed stuff."
"I'm pretty much friendly and compassionate to everybody. But not to people in the ring."
"WWE doesn't owe us anything."
"I used to be vegan. I'm not anymore, but I don't eat hardly any meat. But it's nice for me to go to a place like Chipotle where I can get some fresh veggies, some brown rice, some black beans, and all that kind of stuff."
"Sometimes there's cities where it's just hard to find healthy food. You just have to be prepared."
"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."
"If you watch dogs play, they run and they fight, but they don't fight to hurt each other. They just play. And that's been me my entire life."
"You have to realize that a lot of life is just fortune and the ebbs of flows of what goes on."
"I wasn't a great athlete."
"That is one of the coolest things about WWE and wrestling in general. The fans have this very unique voice and this very unique power, and in no other sport and no other form of entertainment can the fans make their voices heard and it effect change."
"I feel like a lot of fans would like to see me with the heavyweight championship."
"With wrestling, you can't describe how that connection with an audience happens. I can't teach anybody how that happens. The bad things that have happened to me in WWE have made that connection stronger."
"I'm definitely an underdog."
"I would like to do something to help people and help the world."
"My passion is the wrestling."
"I think fans always want something new, but they want somebody who can deliver - to go out there and really entertain them and have good matches."
"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."
"If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road."
"I really don't know life without wrestling."
"With my history of concussions, the WWE wants to protect me, so I've had to take a lot of neurological testing."
"My mind thinks in wrestling. As I'm thinking of things and my mind is being creative, it constantly keeps going back to wrestling. That's my inspiration, and to not be able to express that puts me in a spot where I almost don't know what to do with myself."
