"I love being a dad."
"I have a lot of experience with the lights on bright - a lot of people watching and performing on live television."
"One of the best pieces of advice I ever got in professional wrestling was use the exposure from cable's number one rated television show to transition and move on to what you want to go into next."
"People know my name, and because of that, I have more leverage as a professional fighter. And as a professional fighter, as a professional wrestler, that is something we are all battling for. We want to make our brand a name brand and a household name. And that essentially gives us more leverage and helps us provide for our families."
"In my first fight, I acknowledged it. I'm a professional wrestler, this is who I am, who you know me as. But guess what, I've also been wrestling since I was 5 years old - real wrestling - amateur wrestling, Olympic wrestling."
"I grew up in one of the most prolific high-school-wrestling programs in the country, and MMA fighters are more successful when they have that amateur-wrestling background."
"From the beginning, make no mistakes, I'm a prizefighter and doing this for the money. Money first. And then championships."
"I've heard that I'm a wrestler and not a real fighter, but I have nothing to prove to anybody."
"Chris Jericho is on the Mount Rushmore of professional wrestling."
"As a fighter, I'm not one of those people that wants to prove I can go out and throw strikes."
"All I want to do is go out there and win. That's all that is important to me."
"I've been wrestling since I was 4 years old, so I have over 30 years in some form of wrestling, non-stop in my life. For me, it's who I am."
"My junior and senior year in college is when I first realized what MMA is and really started liking it. I went the other route - I went into the entertainment field and started wrestling professionally, and I did that for about 11 years."
"I need to wrestle, I need to compete."
"When you get to go out and perform on a great pro wrestling show, it's awesome. It's hard not to enjoy it."
"I'm a competitor. I had that reputation in my time at the WWE. I would walk into a locker room, start wrestling with someone, and all I'd hear is, 'There goes Swagger again.'"
"Toward the end of my career with WWE, I found myself in a comfort zone. Looking back at it now with a little more perspective, it was killing me."
"For me, the wins and losses in pro wrestling never mattered. The thing that matters is the time on television to tell that story. If you have a two-segment match on television, whether you win or lose, both people's brands win with a great match."
"All Elite Wrestling completely changes the entire landscape of pro wrestling."
"When I was leaving college, getting ready to graduate with a degree in finance, I had job interviews for months and months - and nothing really was moving like a real opportunity. Meanwhile, a lot of my wrestling teammates at Oklahoma had started getting into MMA training."
"Luckily, I feel like I was a late bloomer as far as my body developing. I really didn't start developing until I was like 18, 19, 20 years old."
"Before I signed with WWE, I thought my athletic career was done. I was going into the finance industry and I just thought I couldn't compete any more. But the mind is a really powerful thing and you can unlock your potential if you choose to ignore what your mind is telling you."
"Yes, pro wrestling is damaging on your body. It hurts."
"When you get in the cage with me, you'd better be ready to go 35 minutes, not just 15."
"Growing up in Perry, Oklahoma, there's not a lot going on, so we would go wrestle anywhere and anyplace we could. It really is who I am."
