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" I'm like the opposite of an 'office guy.' I don't want to be at the arena until right before my match. "

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" I've had hundreds and hundreds of concussions, but I don't think that I have any permanent damage. A lot of my peers do. "

" I attribute my longevity to my extensive stretch routine that I do before every single match or any physical activity. I put myself thought a regimen that really puts my body to the test so I'm not cold, tight, or ready to be injured when I start slamming my body around. "

" I am really thankful for my career. "

" Single matches, I feel, have always been the ones where I can shine more. Three-way, four-way, you have to split your attention with some other guys, and it can be totally great, but when you get into a battle royal with 20 or 30 other guys, it's just so different from what your agenda is when it's one on one competition. "

" I stretch for a full hour before a fight because I know I'm going to take a lot of punishment in the ring. That's my secret. "

" I'm one of the biggest Ghost Rider fans ever. He's been a hobby of mine ever since I was seven years old. I actually have a whole room in my house dedicated to Ghost Rider memorabilia. "

" The energy from the fans in Boston is always something we can count on for support. "

" I'm not afraid of fear tactics. They don't work on me. "

" The 18-year-old me wouldn't understand the 43-year-old me because then I wanted to travel and see the world. But I love being home. "

" To try to be a professional athlete and work out when you're not sleeping right, you're traveling day to day, not to mention the bumps and bruises in the ring, and you're trying to eat right - it's a very, very challenging job. "

" In front of millions of people that paid to see you at your best, who expect you to be in action-figure shape and condition on that particular night for that moment, you've got to deliver. "

" Paul Heyman has always been the only guy from the office that ever really had my best interest and really understood me. The other agents and promoters seemed confused why the fans liked me so much, because I was so non-typical for their idea of a wrestler, so they just tried to capitalize on it without owning it. "

" If my spirit is down, then so are the physical and mental levels. That's always been the case. When I'm motivated, my body feels great and I'm ready and excited to go. When I get burned out, I feel it in all three categories - mind, body and spirit. I'm aware and in touch with all three categories. "

" You can't patent a move. It's challenging enough to come up with a move that nobody else does... I try and do things that I would want to see done that I haven't seen other people do. Most wrestlers obviously don't think that way, and instead they steal somebody's move as soon as they've gone on to the next company. "

" I don't think all the other wrestlers hear the same love from the fans that I do - they are extreme about it. "

" When I hit that Five-Star Frogsplash, I'm pretty confident that if I can crawl over in time, I'm going to get the three-count. So that's kind of always in my back pocket; the fans always know it. "

" I have an open door with WWE as far as wrestling goes. "

" It's very important to me I get my autobiography out before I die and someone else writes it and screws up my life. "

" Samoa Joe is a good friend of mine, and I'm very impressed with his in-ring abilities. "

" I grew up really being a comic book geek, and that was a really big part of my childhood. "

" I was a very intelligent kid. I used my intelligence to support my passions. When it came to comic books, I became enthralled in the whole universe. I had to know all the facts and timelines. The whole fictional universe was real to me. "

" I've never tried to be like anybody else. I'm a non-conformist in every way, and when it comes to wrestling, that's certainly true, too. "

" I was told my style was supposed to give me a short career. "

" Professional wrestling was almost like a secret society when I started, like a Mafia, and it would destroy the Sheik to see how much that has changed. "

" I prefer ECW's style as far as the actual matches I'm capable of having. "

" I'm a strong believer in modern medicine. I think it has its use in society. I think it adds longevity to our life expectancy. "

" In Total Nonstop Action, individual wrestlers have a lot more freedom to artistically express themselves versus WWE. "

" I'm a huge fan of mafia history - mostly the Italian mafia but also their associates, as well as Whitey Bulger and the Winter Hill Gang. "

" Anyone in the entertainment business, respectively, is a show-off. "