Top 48 Quotes & Sayings by Lance Archer

I was actually in Japan when I had the conversation with the TNA brass about my situation coming to an end with them.

One of the bigger things, I think, was learning and trying to find out who Vance Archer was, and who Vance Archer is, and who Vance Archer would end up being.

It's never a good feeling when leaving your dream job.

Global Force is creating a product that has people from independents, and guys who people know are good in their area, and they'll take on guys from around the world in New Japan, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Australia.

That's the cool part about it is AEW is a very open company to moving forward and changing wrestling as a whole.

Pro wrestling is pro wrestling and it's one of those industries where things change on a dime. I'm coming up on 19 years in a business with various companies and often one day you're there and the next day you're gone.

I've been kind of a journeyman. My five-year stint at TNA. My short cup of coffee in WWE. The last eight-and-a-half years in Japan. I wanted to prove to the world that I absolutely belong as a singles competiton.

I've been battling a sciatic issue for a long time. It comes and goes, goes up and down, but I've already worked through it.

I have had some amazing opportunities. I don't take anyway anything that I have had from my past but I think I am really capitalizing on it.

This business changes on a dime daily. You have your ups and downs, goods and bads.

I've been blessed. 20 years in the business of professional wrestling, all over the world, a bunch of different companies.

I was at an autograph show, and there were a lot of people from TNA there doing meet and greets. One of the girls from TNA there asked me why I hadn't joined yet and I said I'd tried and it didn't work out. She asked me to give her a video and pictures, and a few days later I got asked to do a tryout.

And when you asked why I signed with AEW, that's what I saw, was chance for a new future and everything has been extremely cool with me in AEW so far.

Yeah, I went for the TNT title and didn't work out, but I kept kicking some butt, throwing people in ceilings and waiting my turn.

I had some amazing opportunities through TNA, even my time in WWE. Just to be able to go out there and walk out there in a WWE arena is an opportunity in itself but I don't think I was ready to capitalize on that.

I really hope with New Japan - I was really considered a tag team guy, Killer Elite Squad had an amazing run for seven years.

One of the best talkers to ever step foot in the ring is Jake 'The Snake' Roberts, and he proves it every time he steps out there and cuts a promo.

You had to have two VCRs, and you had to tape everything, and you had to make a choice - you either watch WWF or you watch WCW, or you watch one half of one show and the last half of the second show or whatever the case was back then.

That first match there in Dallas for the G1 was the first time they'd really seen me work as a singles competitor in a really long time. This was kind of a coming-out party. I took it as an opportunity to really kind of reinvent myself. And really start the journey that is The Murderhawk Monster.

I'm looking forward to making people open their eyes and recognize exactly how good I am at what I do.

It's fun living the life and traveling and getting to do things that I otherwise probably would never do but it comes with a cost of loss of privacy and being away from loved one a lot.

Will I end up in TNA? Who knows. Will I end up back in the WWE? Who knows. I'm going to push forward. I'm going to become as big and better as I've ever been.

For me, to be the first G1 match ever in the United States was a really cool experience. And Will Ospreay and I, I think, went out there and tore the house down.

My interpermotional dream match would be with Undertaker. I respect who he is and what he has done in this buisnesss and is someone I've tried to mold myself after in many ways. I think it would be a classic Big man match.

My best moment with Sting was when they made a little movie, this kind of biopic of him. I go to be in it and hit him with a chair.

Luckily, I have been a part of New Japan Pro Wrestling for eight years and it's been a great run with a lot of cool things and amazing experiences.

Everybody in this business has lost. Undertaker's lost at WrestleMania, and that was never supposed to happen, but it did.

The things that we have, the opportunities that we continue to do with the backstage vignettes, throwing guys into ceilings, trash cans, lockers, and everything I can find to put them in and through, that itself has been fun for me.

So, you never know what the future holds for cross-promotional situations. I think it would only benefit everybody if and when that situation happens.

I love Japan. I loved going out there and I love the fan base, and I loved everything that I was doing out there, but the opportunity to come home and to be on U.S. television and see my friends and family, the idea was to be able to tour the U.S. and be a part of that.

AEW is creating more eyes and more opportunities and more chances for the business to grow.

So it was really cool just reinventing myself, changing my look, my image, my intensity, my ring-work style, everything that went along with it.

Everybody goes through ups and downs and wins and losses, bumps in the road, and I don't let anything like that slow me down.

You can't explain the energy that you actually get from real fan.

For me, it's always just taking your time, biding your time, doing what you can when you can with what you got.

The only semi serious injury I have had was when I strained my MCL. But I'm always beat up in some form or another.

I simply believe that I am that star that WWE is looking for. But in this business you have to be put in the right spotlight for that to be recognized. Give me that spotlight and you won't be able to look away.

I work with kids in camps and help in training seminars and situations going to schools and stuff like that, there's guys and girls that do some amazing, amazing wrestling.

Everything that was happening with AEW in the world of professional wrestling and the worldwide attention that it was grabbing, for me, like I said, when it all came about, when the opportunity to sign with AEW came, and it came like out of nowhere.

I'll just say it was a combination of a lot of people within the AEW upper office that decided that it was a good idea to have the 'Murder Hawk Monster' on AEW television.

When I started with New Japan in 2011, there was a total of five or six foreigners on the roster.

I think initially with the ECW product it was a perfect place. Even though it was WWE's ECW, it was a perfect place for the young talent to kind of get their feet wet and figure out the lay of the land and to figure out how the WWE works and then you can transition better into Raw or SmackDown.

Michael Hayes was the one that brought me up to be part of ECW. I had long hair, a braided goatee.

I think that's the most interesting part about social media these days. You have such direct contact with anybody and everybody.

He's got the look. He's got the ability to speak. He's got the ability to step in the ring and back it up with his wrestling skill. It's an amazing, unique combination that Ricky Starks has.

You see people come in and out of WWE and the business all the time in different situations.

As far as me, I'm just looking forward to the future. There's a lot of people that look to the past. I've learned from the past, absolutely. I know my past absolutely. I'm not discrediting or... ignoring my past in any way, but my focus has always been moving forward, moving forward into the future.

I worked with Kenny Omega in Japan. But we never wrestled each other.