Top 109 Quotes & Sayings by Dean Ambrose

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American wrestler Dean Ambrose.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Dean Ambrose

Jonathan David Good is an American professional wrestler currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) where he performs under the ring name Jon Moxley. In AEW, he is serving as the interim AEW World Champion due to lineal champion CM Punk being out with an injury. Good also makes additional appearances for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), and on the independent circuit; chiefly Game Changer Wrestling (GCW), where he is the current GCW World Champion in his first reign. He became widely known for his tenure with WWE, where he performed under the ring name Dean Ambrose from 2011 to 2019.

I think NXT has opened up the doors for a lot of guys to come in and create different opportunities.
I'll fight anyone for enough money. Give me half a million dollars.
Threats mean nothing to me. — © Dean Ambrose
Threats mean nothing to me.
I've suffered through the worst possible conditions.
I don't like the water. I'm a land guy.
I don't go out there and put on any sort of front for people. If I'm in a good mood, I appear in a good mood on TV, and if I'm in a bad mood, I just go out there and look like I'm in a bad mood.
For me, wrestling was an escape. It was like a way out.
I had always previously really fed off of negativity and enjoyed being the guy who everybody hated.
A lot of guys come out, and they do the exact same thing, are in the exact same mood, and have the exact same entrance every night, I really just make up a lot of crap as I go along.
In a situation like the Rumble, I'm looking around constantly and keeping my back against a rope as much as possible so I can see what's going on.
Ziggler is one of those guys who don't get all of the credit he deserves for being so good consistently for so long.
I'm much more comfortable being hated than being beloved.
I know a lot of guys say that when they are younger - 'I'm gonna get it, get my money, and get out' - and then end up wrestling until they're 50. But that could end up being me, too. I can tell you I want to get out early and end up eating my own words. All of a sudden, I'm 50, and I'm still walking out there.
You have to take a certain pride in your work. — © Dean Ambrose
You have to take a certain pride in your work.
The first time that somebody handed me a sheet of paper with a promo on it, it was like a 'throw up in your mouth' kind of moment. And it's not, like, their fault, you know? It's not the writers' fault. But if was my world, there would be no written promos; there'd be no scripts.
What I do in WWE is essentially a lovable bad guy.
I could totally see myself limping down the aisle when I'm 60, jumping off the top rope and breaking my hip. I could be a hilarious geriatric wrestler.
It is very easy to get hurt in a match like the Royal Rumble. It seems very run of the mill, but it's always the stupid stuff where you get hurt.
If I got hit by a bus tomorrow, I get to say I was in a movie.
I hate in-ring promos. I've never done a promo in WWE that I liked.
I wasn't 'gifted' in the way that Brock Lesnar or Roman Reigns or somebody like that is gifted, in that they got the physical attributes and so forth.
To be in an Intercontinental title match at WrestleMania, that is the stuff dreams are made of.
I always liked the guys who lasted a long time in the match and had endurance. People like Ric Flair going an hour at the 1992 Rumble, or Shawn Michaels and the British Bulldog being one and two in 1995 and both lasting until the end.
Being a nocturnal creature myself, I often find myself in dark alleys or strange places late at night. If there were werewolves around, I'd be likely to run into them, being the night owl that I am.
I want my performance to be at the highest level of anybody in the company. I want to make everybody step up to me.
I may not be the biggest guy in the world or strongest guy in the world. I don't have those gifts. But I will take more punishment, and I'm willing to withstand more abuse.
People can see through crap pretty easily. Just go out there and be comfortable. Be you. Be authentic.
I might be the only guy in WWE who isn't acting ever.
Brock Lesnar likes to get his rest time, you know what I'm saying?
WWE is like showbiz boot camp.
I put in the same hours to get good at this as a surgeon who went to college. It's just a much less important job in the realm of society.
I'm big into mountain biking.
I like wrestling 30 minutes a night.
I like to live a spoiler-free life.
I'm Vince McMahon's favorite wrestler; quote me.
You'll find that all WWE performers, when they go on to any television show or set of any kind, we're more prepared that we get credit for. We don't get enough credit.
In North America, there aren't too many big places to go, so you find that pretty much all of the best talent in the world ends up filtering through WWE.
There are times when you got to put a little 'extra' in, especially on a card at WrestleMania or SummerSlam because it's no time to hold anything back. You have to pull out all of the stops.
There is a noticeable difference from a crowd surging against you and a crowd surging with you. — © Dean Ambrose
There is a noticeable difference from a crowd surging against you and a crowd surging with you.
The WWE Championship is the greatest championship in the history of this sport. It has the most history of anything.
I've been around in WWE for quite a while now and before that had - even in Florida - I've been all around the world and seen every type of style in opponent; the way I was trained and stuff, I got a lot more tricks up my sleeve.
I'm doing some more dangerous stuff on a weekly basis than professional stunt men are doing.
Where a new guy may only know one or two ways to do something, I know all of the moves, and I've forgotten more stuff than the newer guys might even know.
I don't know if I would ever sleep well again if I actually saw a ghost. If they exist, that's fine. I just don't want to see one.
I keep my inner circle of people very small and tight, and I like to relax if I get a chance.
I always take pride in the fact that nobody can mess with me, and I never let anybody mess with me my entire life.
I have no fear of anybody or anything happening to me in WWE because nothing can be as bad as some of the injuries I went through and some of the grotesque things that have happened to my body.
I like, at the end of the night, to be walking back to the locker room limping and sweating, spitting blood out of my mouth. I've been doing this for a long time, and it comes naturally.
Once you get within a few weeks of the show and it becomes WrestleMania season, the energy starts picking up, and the energy feels different. You can feel it in the air, and every show means a little bit more, and everything is a little more focused and directed. Everything's directing toward that day of WrestleMania.
I kind of miss that whole NXT thing. When I was there, it was Florida Championship Wrestling with Seth Rollins and the other guys who were there. I wrestled on, like, local-access Florida TV in front of 30 people. It was a tiny little situation.
I think I'm one of the only guys here - I mean, we have so much great talent here, but I can do anything. I can literally do anything. That's not me being like, 'Oh I'm so great.' I'm just like, 'I know what I'm doing.'
A lot of people feel they spend enough time watching me go through the good, the bad, and the ugly, so they feel like they know me and are a part of it. I'm kind of like a part of people's families. You can't buy that kind of connection with people.
I had a hard time going to school. I probably wasn't the most pleasant young person to be around. I kept a very tight circle of trusted people. — © Dean Ambrose
I had a hard time going to school. I probably wasn't the most pleasant young person to be around. I kept a very tight circle of trusted people.
I can't imagine, I can't get in the mind of a wrestling fan who wants to break news that spoils a surprise for somebody. Would you want a surprise spoiled?
I'm not some schmuck they just hired and threw down in the Performance Center and gave him an entrance or anything that like. I've been around enough and have enough experience; I know what I'm doing pretty much.
I love adrenaline. I like senseless violence.
If you're really good at doing what you do, good things will come.
I like to think I'm a good mechanic for the company. 'Oh well, we sprung a leak? Call Ambrose; throw him in there.' I like that because I think it has really upped my value with the company, and I think that they realize nowadays, too, another Dean Ambrose isn't going to walk through the door anytime soon - or ever.
While it's cool to think ghosts exist, I don't want to see one.
A crowd urging you on to do well can be very encouraging. It's very fun. It can be a really cool feeling.
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