Top 109 Quotes & Sayings by Dean Ambrose - Page 2

I've always fed off negativity and wanting people to hate me. That attitude really fueled me for my entire career. So being a guy that people like and want to cheer for is the weird part.

No one really has any idea about me. To me, what I give you is what happens onscreen, and past that, anything you're coming up with in your own head, you're creating in your own mind.

It's not like I'm not constantly dealing with a litany of injuries that I have myself. If it's not one thing, it's another thing, but I've just been able to keep rolling.

The history of the business is very fascinating to me.

Having that main event load to carry is very comfortable for me. Anything less is uncomfortable.

I'd rather have too many weird fans than no fans at all.

There's a lot of guys in WWE - you would know who they are - you know you're going to see the same thing every single match. You know you're going to hear the same thing every time they pick up a microphone. You know John Cena is never going to get mad at you no matter what you do.

I don't really try to pattern myself after any particular person. I pretty much make it up as I go along.

There is no creative process to come up with a character of Dean Ambrose.

You're always going to get comparisons. Everybody comes out and says, 'He's the next so and so,' or, 'He reminds me of so and so.' I have so many influences and stuff in my brain, who knows what's going to pop in and come out.

In the back of my mind. I always knew WWE was where I should be and where I would end up. Or where I could end up. Where I deep-down wanted to end up.

I probably don't have any more of a bigger following on the Internet than anybody else does - I just probably have a stranger one.

I like to fly close to the edge. I like to play with fire.

From day one, The Shield was a vehicle. It wasn't, 'This is what we're doing for the rest of our lives.' It was, 'This is the vehicle we'll use to bust into WWE, to ride to the top of it, and then we fight each other.' That was always the plan.

I listen to some Hank Williams before I go out. I tell some jokes. I have fun. I don't waste too much energy thinking about it - I like to save that all for the ring.

It's all so surreal seeing yourself in a video game.

I'm really into rock climbing and hiking and stuff.

I never pictured myself being liked by anybody.

You have these magical moments in these live events that are never captured on film and that only live on in your memory. Those are always my favorite.

If you're a wrestling fan, and you watch it on TV, that's great, but there's nothing quite like being there live.

A lot of people say, 'It takes a lot to beat him,' or whatever. I'm trying to show you in the most literal terms, my body is indestructible, whether its glass or fire or barbed wire.

It's such a high-pressure form of live entertainment that I found, once I got out there, being on a movie set isn't that different from being on 'Monday Night RAW.' It's all stuff that I was prepared for.

The calmest part of my day is right before a match.

As far as social media and all that, I understand connecting with fans on a different level, but I don't feel the need to open myself up to the opinion of everybody in the world with a phone or computer. I just don't get that, being connected to everybody on such a superficial level like that. It's not really for me.

I keep myself flexible; I just compete at my normal body weight.

I just go out there and be myself and turn up the voltage a little bit for entertainment value.

I'm trying all kinds of crazy stuff at house shows just for my own amusement and to see what the people are gonna do.

I hate ladders. I don't mind heights, but I hate getting hit with ladders and falling into ladders. Anything where there are ladders involved or inanimate, unpredictable objects or multiple people gets dangerous.

When you're going in there with Brock Lesnar, you can't have anything else on your mind.

I was pretty happy with what we were able to do on 'SmackDown.' It was one of the best, most fun runs of my career because it was essentially a new show.

I remember, the first times watching WWF, Bret Hart was kind of the man, winning King of the Ring, technical master, and he could go for an hour. He had a million different moves he could beat anyone with. Just rugged, dynamic champion. He was so cool.

It is hard for me to understand I am on television and people around the world watch me every week in a country I have never even been to.

'Terminator' is one of my favorite movies.

The thing is that, not only do you learn so much about being in front of a camera and stuff being on 'Monday Night RAW,' but at the same time, I'm not really acting on 'Monday Night RAW.'

WWE prepares you for so much other stuff in entertainment.

I said, 'What I'm going to do is dress as plain as humanly possible.' I'm not going to wear anything fancy, I'm not going to have fancy music, I'm not going to have fancy pyro - I'm literally just going to be a dude walking into the ring. I'm going to look like I just got off work from a construction site, and I am now punching you in the face.

I don't look any further than what's right in front of me.

I can't remember a time when wrestling wasn't my thing that I watched. As far back as my memory goes, I was already obsessed with wrestling.

There are three things in this world that will survive a nuclear explosion: Twinkies, cockroaches and Dean Ambroses.

I am actually as good as everybody else pretends to be. It's scary.

I don't like my wrestling or entertainment in general to be too clean or predictable for me as a fan. When I say clean, I'm not talking about dirty jokes, middle fingers and stuff like that. I'm actually not even a big fan of that. A lot of people talk about the attitude era being so great but a lot of it was terrible crap, sex jokes and over-the-top terrible bad comedy. It was Jerry Springer-like. They made a joke about a woman's breasts. Hilarious, but where's the wrestling? I look back on a lot of stuff now, and I'm like where's the wrestling? It's just a lot of crappy jokes.

I spent two months in a jail once. In a Mexican border town.

I am an unstoppable killing machine. I am the greatest champion that ever walked the face of this planet.

There's no, 'Oh my God, somebody else is gonna come back and take my spot.' I wanna have a spot that's my spot, that nobody can take away, because nobody else is me.

I never thought I was a bad person. I just thought I was the one good person living in a world of bad people.

I've got ice water running through my veins, I'm cool.

I have no fear; I have nothing to lose. I'd rather burn out than fade away, and I would rather go out in a blaze of glory on my own terms than let anybody dictate anything to me in my career. I had the chance to wrestle The Undertaker [on Smackdown in 2013], and one thing I took away from it was that he looked me in the eye and said, 'Trust your instincts because you've got great instincts.'

I like to go to bars and bang really ugly girls, I just like to, I'm just a sick guy.

I didn't even know what Chikara was... So I show up at the show, and I'm expecting a normal wrestling show... there's like a f#%ing dude in a dinosaur outfit walking around, and there was a stipulaton that someone would be sent back in time... Not that I disliked it or anything, I was just like, what the hell is going on.