"People have said to me, 'It must be nice to prove so many people wrong,' but I've never really cared about proving anything to anybody else."
"I always feel like I wasn't the best trainer, because I'm really good at teaching people stuff, but I'm not good if people aren't super psyched - if they're not like me."
"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."
"Miz and I have known each other for a long time, and we really know, like, how to get at each other's nerves."
"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."
"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."
"Wrestling is more of a creative outlet, and especially for somebody like me, I view it as my creative outlet. Not all WWE superstars and not all wrestlers view it that way, but that's how I view it, and that's one of the ways my mind works creatively."
"I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music, but musicians can play until the day they die. With sports, it's different. You can't always do it until the very end, and that's a hard reality of sports."
"The blessings wrestling has given me have allowed me to find some new passions, but it's really hard when you've got that first love, and nothing really replaces it."
"My wife and I are very blessed. I am very grateful for the life that we lead."
"When I first got to WWE, the head of talent relations was John Laurinaitis, who is now my father-in-law, and the first thing I thought when I saw everything that he had to do is, I thought, 'I would never, in a million years, ever want that job. You could not pay me enough money to have that job.'"
"I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it."
"I think one of the things that really endeared me to people was that people got to view more aspects of my personality than most because of the different things that I did within WWE."
"In combat sports, personalities are what draw."
"Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao was one of the worst boxing matches I've ever seen, but millions of people watched it because of the personalities involved."
"I'm having a really hard time with this retirement thing and not having wrestling."
"I think whatever you have in your life, my opinion is that if you know that there's something wrong, you try to fix it."
"Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches."
"I like Everton. If I'm going to cheer for that kind of football team, I'm going to cheer for Everton. But the Seahawks are my passion."
"Every year, I say the Seahawks are going to win the Super Bowl. There's no doubt in my mind every single year. And you have to keep in mind this was well before the Seahawks were good. This was, like, 2-14, drafting-Rick-Mirer Seahawks. I would still be saying they were going to win the Super Bowl."
"I've lifted weights ever since I was a teenager, but I started going more towards the Olympic weightlifting style, which is clean and jerk."
"My brain is - essentially, you take any college football player in the country, because I have had multiple, multiple concussions. I had 10 documented concussions, four post-concussion seizures and so, but, with that said, my brain is no worse than your average college football player's brain, right?"
"My health is 100% more important than coming back to wrestling. Being a good father is more important than going out there and expounding on my belief that doing more hammerlocks in wrestling is good for the business!"
"One of the wonderful things about wrestling, to me, is that you can protect people who have had head injuries."
"I would read a lot about how to be a dad. I had never changed a diaper before we had Birdie."
