Top 98 Quotes & Sayings by Austin Aries
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
I'm pretty much who I am, and I'm not everybody's flavour, and I'm kind of polarising and some people like me and some people don't.
I think if you're trying to be mindful of eating well on the road, it can be difficult no matter what. Your choices at midnight or one o'clock in some of the smaller towns when we are getting out of shows aren't going to be the best choices for eating healthy no matter what your dietary choices or restrictions are.
I always mention Bobby Roode. We just click on a lot of different levels. We grew up appreciating the same type of wrestler and same type of wrestling. We are similar students to the game.
I've been blessed for 17 years to have a job where I make people forget their problems for a little while.
There was one day where I just stopped eating meat, but then the transition to get rid of the dairy and eggs took 12 years.
There's nothing more I hate than a wrestling snob.
As I go around the country and I'm seeing all the fans in the WWE Universe, there's a lot of young kids and they're off to the wrong start, because they're being fed the wrong food.
I think it's funny, if you look at Brian Cage, the guy calls himself 'The Machine.' 265 lbs and spends a lot of time in the gym and eating chicken breasts. The guy comes in Impact Wrestling and instead of going after a guy like Moose or Killer Kross, who is he beating up? A bunch of guys half his size? Walking around like he's a big man.
I don't necessarily get rubs from championships, I'd like to feel the championship gets a rub off of me.
A guy like AJ Styles is obviously a great talent and he's going to go out there and put on a performance that's befitting of a man who is the World Champion.
Eveybody likes to speculate that me and Austin Starr are somehow related. I always say that that guy never had a tattoo.
I love pizza hands down.
I'm not motivated by money and I never really have been.
I really don't watch a lot of wrestling.
On the road, I'll always pack a package or two of pre-cooked lentils, nuts, vegan protein bars and powders.
One of the things people always ask me is, isn't it expensive to eat healthy or vegan? It can be, but isn't it expensive to live in a nice house or drive a nice car or wear nice clothes?
I'm probably not motivated by a lot of things that people think I am.
I've always been a big believer in myself and that if you give me an opportunity I am going to make the most of it.
Listen, things change, that's part of life. Part of what makes you great is being able to move when you need to move. Being limber, agile and roll with the punches so to speak.
I've accomplished every goal I've set out to. I've traveled the world, I've competed in just about every promotion there is.
For me, I'm smart enough and have been around the business long enough to know you don't really retire.
Defending the Impact title against Jay Lethal would be phenomenal.
No matter what lifestyle you choose, when it comes to eating, we should all as consumers have a choice to make informed decisions. We shouldn't be misinformed or mislead.
Sometimes the best thing to do is to take a step back and get a little bit of a different perspective and re-evaluate things.
Really, since I left Impact Wrestling - some people say controversially - I've been really laying low.
For me, from day one, I don't think I realized that I was considered undersized, but I knew I was good. I had certain tools in my toolbox that other guys didn't have, like agility, quickness and explosiveness.
I've got plenty of people that would love to be ringside with me.
I figure no matter what interview I do, the real good 'journalists' are going to find the completely irrelevant quotes that will drum up some controversy and stick it on their page to get some clicks and completely miss the real context of what the interview is about. That's what we do nowadays and call it 'journalism.'
It was always important for me not to be pigeonholed as a cruiserweight-style wrestler.
I'm interested to work with Lucha Underground and as champion that would put me in the mix to work with them.
I love food and don't want to sacrifice my enjoyment to be healthy. You can enjoy food and can be mindful and healthy while you do it but it just takes a little time and effort.
Pay-per-views bring conclusion to storylines and what has been going on from television. It is important to give viewers satisfactory pay off over storylines and that is why pay-per-views are important.
No matter who I am wrestling, as long as Bobby Heenan is my manager, I'll be happy.
Just like music, I consider wrestling to be an art form, and I have a vision of what that art should look like.
I have friends in other industries but if I am training for a wrestling match, I would turn to the best wrestler to train, not a football player.
I get paid to put tweets out sometimes.
Nobody walks through life as a pure babyface per se or a pure heel, we all have shades of grey, and there's some days we're a little better than others, and some days we're a little more ornery. And I think that I just embody that.
I think there's a balance of fan interaction. I think sometimes there can be a little too much interaction. I know when I was a kid, the mystique of wrestlers and stuff was something that was kind of big, and if I got to hang out with them all the time i think that mystique can be lost.
My initial going into vegetarian was learning about eating healthy.
I think the reality of the situation is if you're WWE and you're looking for talent, you're going to want the best guys out there, and you're gonna look at Ring Of Honor, because that's where the best talent is.
There was a time that I really loved pro wrestling, but I'm not a pro wrestling junkie, per se.
As for regret, more than anything else, my regret lies in that the WWE Universe never really got the real Austin Aries. Outside of commentary, they missed out on the chance to hear and see me be me, and do what I do best.
I think that there is a lot of people that miss what pro wrestling can give them too. I don't watch a ton of it. I watch enough to see what is going on. I think it is also good to not be watching it because your ideas are your ideas.
Go fail or succeed on your own merits, be your own man.
At the end of the day all I've ever asked for is to be allowed to succeed and fail on my own merits. Not based on what somebody else wants me to do or thinks I should do. Or, what they want me to say or what they think I should say.
I was thankful that TNA saw the potential in me and put me in a position to fulfill something like winning the World Heavyweight Championship.
You can have a favorite band, but when they sign with a major label... maybe a new producer says, 'You can't do that, take this down a notch.' And you'll keep listening, but you'll always think their first album was their best album.
Guys like Samoa Joe, no matter what it's been, what promotion, every time we are in the ring there is such an easy storytelling and psychology in there. We always had good matchups.
I'm someone who likes to question things that are put in front of me, I like to think I'm someone who asks 'why sir?' not a 'yes sir.'
I'm very stubborn and I don't like to lose.
I don't like hypocrisy, I don't like double standards, it's probably why i'm vegan.
I like to think every time I was put in a high pressure position, I've always delivered.
I don't have a bucket list.
Anything that is history making, then of course you want to be a part of it.
When I was contacted about coming back to Impact they were obviously at a stage when they were really rebooting as a company.
We live in a world with fake news being put out there. You don't really know what to trust, and it's a real danger to society.
I don't have a lot of free time with the amount of traveling that I do, but most of pro wrestling isn't catered to me. I am not a kid. There are a lot of guys that complain to me about the product, but it's like, well, you are not a kid. It is catered to sell t-shirts and merchandise to kids and their parents.
I think I'm a very passionate person who's always strong in my convictions.
I have put a lot of energy and focus into capturing the Cruiserweight Championship, but obviously I didn't get the job done.
As for my daily, it usually consists of a smoothie in the morning with banana, spinach and blueberry and veggie protein powder, then some kind of tofu or tempeh scramble with veggies. Later, I may have some type of rice and beans, salad with lentils, sweet potato, nut butter sandwich and another smoothie.
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