"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 get this anxiety in cities and places like that. When you grow up in kind of a small town and when you grow up around a lot of green and trees and nature and that sort of thing, sometimes I think it's a little mentally disconcerting to be around this concrete."
"One of the autobiographies I really liked was Bob Dylan's. It was interesting because he didn't do it in a linear fashion."
"I spent a lot of time over in England wrestling at Butlins holiday camps for Brian Dixon and All Star Wrestling."
"I always try to live in the moment."
"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've always respected and appreciated Punk, but we never really hung out. We came from the same route, but we didn't necessarily hang out in the same circles. I've always had a great appreciation and respect for his hard work."
"With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness."
"I think of Bret Hart as somebody who held the Intercontinental championship like it was the World Heavyweight championship. Every title match he was in felt important, like it was the most important thing on the show. The way he carried himself and the matches he had, it was just everything I thought a champion should be."
"The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst."
"What we do is entertainment. We entertain people. Sometimes we inspire people, but sometimes we are just a way to fill their time."
"I didn't really grow up playing video games. I had an original Nintendo after the original Nintendo was cool."
"My No. 1 dream match is Brock Lesnar. And I want that to be a WrestleMania match. I don't know if the WWE will ever let that happen, because they might be afraid he might legitimately hurt me pretty bad."
"I'd like to to do a major pay-per-view match with Seth Rollins. I'd love do a major pay-per-view match with Stardust."
"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."
"I've always thought Shawn Michaels's story is fascinating."
"I've been wrestling since I was 18 years old. And within the first five months of my wrestling career, I'd already had three concussions. And for years after that, I would get a concussion here and there, and it gets to the point that when you've been wrestling for 16 years, that adds up to a lot of concussions."
"To me, the funnest part of wrestling is evolving. If you stay the same all the time, you're eventually going to be left behind."
"When I watch myself, I see nothing but faults, like, 'This I need to do different, this I need to do different,' and so if there comes a point in time where I'm like, 'Man, this whole thing is just getting really stale,' I am not opposed to being the bad guy again."
"Being a bad guy is fun for me."
"I am a big Seth Rollins fan and have been for a long period of time."
"My favorite wrestler growing up was Dean Malenko. He was a very technical wrestler, and when I trained with Shawn Michaels, he wasn't that kind of a technical wrestler. So, when I finally met Regal in 2001, he was that kind of a wrestler, and all of a sudden, I could ask him things, and he would know what I was talking about and how to do it."
"I don't want to be away from wrestling even a little."
"When I was around nine, my parents took me to my first live event, which was a WWE show with Ultimate Warrior. From then on, I loved it."
"I've never really been a character on TV. I think, if possible, you want to portray yourself. If you're in a situation where you're supposed to react, you need to react."
