Top 98 Quotes & Sayings by Austin Aries - Page 2

I always say men's facial hair is kind of like women's makeup. We know how to contour our face real nice and give ourselves nice angles and make our nose look not quite as crooked as it is.

I've been trying to make it my own way in an industry full of heels walking around in babyface costumes, and that brought out the worst in me.

I've been Austin almost half my life. In almost every public setting, that's why I'm there - to be Austin Aries.

I think that weight divisions in wrestling is a little silly as we never adhere to them.

The connector part of the mustache to the beard wasn't always really strong for me. That's kind of how it morphed, and that's kind of how my beard comes in.

Every time Samoa Joe and myself have stepped in the ring, we've always created a little bit of magic.

I battle with things like depression in my life, I battle with things like anxiety, I battle with things like attention deficit disorder, and I ignored them all.

Obviously, you'd like your titles to be defended at major pay-per-views. I think most fans would agree with that although it doesn't mean that always has to be the case.

I think that once I started connecting dots of where my food was coming from and the reality of that, as opposed to maybe what you think it is as a little kid, and the realities of how my food was getting to my plate and what the real effects of that are. When I started connecting those dots, I couldn't disconnect them.

I was the X-Division champion and competing against guys mostly my size, and I dominated them.

As far as being the longest-reigning X Division champion, it's a pretty remarkable achievement, due to all the men who have held it over the years.

I just want to be the greatest man that I can be while I'm alive, and in that, you have to find the truth. Find the hard truth about yourself.

Sometimes it can be easy to forget where your roots are or where you came from.

What the general public doesn't always understand is that wrestlers often only have hours to put things together, not days or weeks, except in certain cases.

WWE is the biggest entity in professional wrestling and if you want to prove yourself to be one of the greatest or one of the best, then that's the only place you can do it.

You always have to keep evolving. You're always trying to improve. If you're at a standstill, you're falling behind.

From the moment I became a free agent, the WWE opportunity was the one I wanted. Obviously, there were strong plays made by some other companies, but in the end, when WWE offered me an opportunity, I could not turn it down.

I always wanted facial hair as soon as I could get it.

When I first started training, I guess the fact that I was undersized, it just didn't register initially. Obviously, I knew I wasn't huge and there were some bigger guys in the territories at the time, but I guess I never looked at it as a hinderance.

I've always felt that wherever I go, I have to carry myself like I'm a main event guy and like I'm a star.

The perception is if you are not 206lbs then you can't be considered main event talent, which is foolish.

I like nice food. Some people like cars, nice clothes, a nice house, and I like that stuff, but I like nice foods.

I think it's always good to have realistic short term goals and then lofty longer term goals.

I have a backbone; that doesn't make me a heel. That makes me the biggest babyface there is.

Right before I came back to TNA, I had made the decision to just sort of step away from wrestling. Therefore I really walked into TNA holding nothing back and let the chips fall where they fell.

At the end of the day, you can change coaches and managers and players, but if there's something intrinsic, something wrong, then you have to look at what the common denominator is, and, usually, you've got to look at the ownership because everything runs from there.

Wisconsin will always be home to me in a nostalgic kind of way.

Is it supposed to be a championship for a certain style of wrestlers? For wrestlers under a certain weight limit? I think over the years the one thing that has held the X-Division from being in a certain spot is that it doesn't have a definition.

I was a choir boy my whole life.

I'm not going to lie. I'd love to have the mic in my hand opposite of Dixie Carter in the ring and say my piece, say what's on my mind. And if she's willing to sit there and listen to it, I think it could make for some great television.

I competed at 'WrestleMania 33,' and I'm telling you, leading up to what should have been the biggest moment of my life, I couldn't find an ounce of joy.

I'm about making history and doing things that haven't been done before.

I'm kind of a skeptic at heart.

As long as I can get Bobby Heenan in my corner, then I'm a happy man because, to me, Bobby Heenan is one of the most underrated performers of all time. He's in my top five of all time performers because I don't think people realize just how good he was.

At the end of the day everyone has different goals. Some people, like myself, are trying to keep size on. Some people might come in and have the opposite. So, one size doesn't fit all for nutrition.

The more you control where your food comes from instead of relying on restaurants, fast food joints, convenience stores and other processed sources, the better off you're going to be.

In my opinion nobody owns the patent on the art form of professional wrestling and the way it does its business.

Chris Jericho is a guy who I grew up really appreciating what he did in the ring.