Top 105 Quotes & Sayings by John Layfield - Page 2

When people look at Bermuda, they see the beautiful beaches, the golf courses, the fishing, and that's what they should see. That's Bermuda. What they don't see is the almost predominant black-on-black violence that is unfortunately pervasive throughout the local neighborhoods.

You look at something like Russia, or you look at something like China, where you actually allow free markets to go in. And you haven't seen the change that we, in the western world, would probably like. You still have a bit of a dictatorship - some people would say more than a bit of a dictatorship - in Russia and in China.

I got the honor of traveling some with Kerry Von Erich. He was as close to a rock star as I've ever seen. He had a presence that when he walked into a room, it was like Elvis walking into the room.

I do a mind game every day. I play chess, sudoku. I learn something different: a language, a few words of a different language.

I always wanted to try Mt. Everest since I was a kid. I never thought I would be able to do anything like that.

I think people really liked Bill Clinton. They'd like to see him get elected, but Hillary's just a different animal.

I buy companies I want to own. I buy companies that make a lot of money, that don't have a lot of debt, and that I can understand.

I really enjoyed working with Michael Cole. I think he's a great play-by-play guy.

I'm happy about the fact that I got to do what I wanted to do since I was a kid. The fact that I got to live the dream that I wanted to live.

'Stone Cold' came in with a monster push as 'The Ringmaster' with Ted DiBiase. That didn't work out.

You can't be critical of Dana White.

We have a mass incarceration among minorities that is disproportionate to our population. It's a travesty what's going on with our mass incarceration specifically of minorities.

It's been a part of my entire life: I've wanted to be a wrestler since I was a little kid. I don't think that ever leaves you.

You want to get something changed, you send sport. Look what happened when Pee Wee Reese puts his arm around Jackie Robinson. That did more for racial relations in the United States through sport.

If we lose Saudi Arabia because of sanctions or by avoiding them, they're going to China; they're going to Russia.

Look what we did with Cuba. You isolate a country, and all you do is impoverish that country.

When I was a kid, I always dreamed about climbing mountains. I read every book about it. I formulated this plan to accomplish it.

Ron Simmons had a lot to do with Rock's success.

The JBL character, I had had in mind for a long time, a character very similar.

I enjoyed the Bradshaw character - the beer-drinking character from Texas. It was just fun.

I had some physical problems with my back that caused me just some really bad problems.

I started up this program here in Bermuda, working with what society deems under-privileged kids, at-risk kids.

I didn't have a ton of success as Justin Hawk Bradshaw, but it wasn't a failure, either.

Do you want to talk about matches that matter? Randy Orton can go out there, John Cena can go out there, AJ Styles can go out there and put together matches that matter and not have to do silly dives because they don't know how to work.

Texas was a hotbed for professional wrestling when I was growing up.

I should be a poster child for CTE.

I went to work on Wall Street for about three or four years with an investment bank, got certified: series 3, series 7, and all this stuff.

I've been to over 70 different countries, all seven continents. It's been just a wonderful ride, and all that is because of professional wrestling 100%.

Triple H and I have wrestled many, many times, but never on a real meaningful stage. I would really enjoy that.

In West Texas, where I grew up, I had a wind farm planned. I'd gotten the turbines bought and the land acquired, and then the renewable energy credit imploded, and it killed the margins, so the deal never worked, but the investment bank I was working with asked me and said, 'We really like what you did. Would you come to work for us?'

I retired because I had to, not because I wanted to. The temptation to get back in the ring is very much there.

Shawn Michaels I just think the world of. I would love the opportunity to be in a meaningful match with him.

Guys do dives because they don't know how to work. Guys do flips because they don't know how to work.

I've always been a news junkie.

I'm a kid from a small town in West Texas, and I've gotten to travel the world. I got to live all over the world.

My back's not great, and I can't wrestle a full schedule.

When I first retired, I had short-term memory loss, and I started reading about neuroplasticity in the brain, about how the brain can regenerate itself, and I don't know if it can or not.

I grew up a huge wrestling fan. My grandfather, who was a minister and retired when I was a young kid in Sweetwater, Texas, lived right near us. He was a big wrestling fan.

I played a little pro football, didn't make much money.

I just don't think our best are in politics. I think these guys are inept.

I don't have to pad my resume. Normal people are astounded by my resume, because normal people never let their dreams get beyond their front door, because they are scared of failure. I have never been scared of failure, and I have never failed.

You don't have to worry about the guy that threatens to beat you up. Worry about the guy that shows up on your doorstep, looking for a fight.

You've go to have a heart to be in the WWE, but its got to be black. Just like me.

Isn't it amazing how much better you listen when you are in need?

I see no women out here, and you're chanting about a male organ, now tell me who's the fruit bootie?