Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Matt Riddle - Page 2

I love working with new guys, especially MMA guys.

Crowds are always different, but I know I have hardcore fans who watch everything I do online, so I have to make sure every match is different.

In my opinion, if I was going to pick main roster guys, I've always had a hunch out for Cesaro. I just feel like if we were able to just go at it, make it a fight, I think it would be pretty sensational.

Wrestling is one of the hardest things, and it has nothing to do with the extremely hard physical part of it. It has to do with the psychological part of it.

The bottom line is, I've got a wife and three kids. I've got bills I have to pay.

I always wanted to wrestle, but when you're a kid, how do you do pro wrestling? For me, it seemed like the easiest way for me was to get into amateur wrestling and go that route because it was a place where I was allowed to go.

I'll be honest, when I first started pro wrestling, everybody else did clotheslines better than me. They did everything about pro wrestling better than me. But when it comes to fighting, getting nitty and gritty, I'm the man.

Pro wrestling fans love what they watch, and they go out to enjoy and have fun.

If I do make WWE - because in my head, until it's official, it's not a thing - I think if they brought me in, it would be very short lived at NXT, and I'd be on main roster extremely quick.

If you're a wrestler in the WWE, then your goal is to be the headliner, main event of WrestleMania.

I heard London is nice, so maybe it is. But I've only been to the armpit of England.

I feel like I started with wrestling, and a love of pro wrestling, that lead me to MMA and the UFC. And now it's come full circle back to pro wrestling.

I like to fight. That's who I am.

I got into the UFC after six months of training. I started doing jiu-jitsu, had my first fight, tried out for 'The Ultimate Fighter,' and got on.

In mixed martial arts, if you get kicked in the face, it's your job not to show any expression to your opponent.

I'm always learning, always trying new things, because you have to to stay fresh.

It always feels good when you hear another guy in your industry give you praise.

Growing up, my family wasn't really into sports, so we didn't really watch sports, and then one day I stumbled across the TV: pro wrestling.

I'm just tired of the unethical people, the scumbags, all that. Maybe that's how all businesses are run, but in MMA, I've been in the UFC, Legacy, and Bellator. The UFC was the best, and even they didn't treat you that well.

I just like people that bring in a very competitive mentality to pro wrestling.

I will be completely honest: when I fought in Manchester, they were very cruel to me. One fan actually spat directly in my face, and he was lucky enough where it hit my mouth.

I have to say, running in flip-flops through the airport can be pretty tricky.

Me and Kyle O'Reilly have wrestled all around the world. We've done good work.

I'm a shark, and I swam in a lot of different ponds, but I'm ready for the ocean.

In pro wrestling, if somebody throws a move, it's my job not to get hurt but also to sell the move and make it look like I'm dying.

When I first started wrestling, I didn't even want people to know I was in the UFC.

I was landscaping not too long ago, so I'm extremely grateful for the people supporting me in wrestling. Not that landscaping is terrible, but I'd rather be suplexing and punching people.

When I started doing pro wrestling, it wasn't the physical aspect doing the moves or taking the moves that was hard: it was interacting with the crowd, body movement, selling, getting that emotional attachment with people so they're invested in a match. That was the hard part.

In professional wrestling, the fans are tremendous.

My goal isn't just to make wrestling into a bigger show and make good money, but it's also to evolve pro wrestling to where I think it belongs.

Growing up, I was always a fan of wrestling, but I was also a fan of MMA and stuff.

Being real in pro wrestling has paid off. Just being myself - that really translated to the fans.

In wrestling, sports entertainment, I get to fight in front of people; I get to wrestle in front of people; I get to entertain people sometimes four times a week - all around the country, all around the world.

I'm down to fight anybody at any given time, anywhere.

With wrestling, I'm working all the time, I'm wrestling all the time, I'm performing all the time, and I'm making money all the time.

I started training at the Monster Factory, the ROH dojo, CZW, and I trained there. And eventually, I had a tryout with WWE.

When I first started, I lived in Vegas because I was fighting in the UFC, and I was still fighting after the UFC.

Even when you're on top in the UFC, you only get paid a couple times a year.

My goal is to make wrestling more like mixed martial arts.

Living in my parents' house is pretty sweet. It's not like they're rich or anything, but they're pretty nice to me, so it was pretty good living there, too, and all I did was jujitsu. I was just like a stallion, just living on my parents' couch. It wasn't terrible.