Top 60 Christopher Daniels Quotes

Honestly, I’m sure the WWE’s not looking for 47-year old rookies and that’s fine with me. The timing of my career worked out where when I might have been interesting to them, were times that I was under contract with TNA or Ring of Honor and that’s fine with me.

I don’t think that there’s a burning hunger in the wrestling world to see me necessarily wrestle anybody.

When I first started training to be a wrestler I was also trying my hand at acting. I was trying to get into the Chicago theater scene. It was tougher to get into the theater scene than I thought and I almost gave wrestling a try as an afterthought.

When AEW came around, I was in probably my sixth year at Ring of Honor, and I was in a position where I felt like I had sort of done everything I wanted to do in the ring at Ring of Honor.

Once cable started coming around, I had a lot of access to a lot of different wrestling, but primarily, the Mid Atlantic stuff is what I sort of fell in love with.

I graduated college, my degree is in theatre, so I went to Chicago and tried to get into the theatre scene up there, but it was real hard to break in and find paying work.

And the truth of the matter is sometimes it’s hard to be different from the WWE when you’re trying to gain those same viewers. Sometimes there’s a tendency to sort of follow in the footsteps of the WWE.

For years now boxing and MMA have shown it’s not the size of the guy in the fight.

I’m most comfortable being myself, but I will admit to having an abnormal amount of fun being the King of Spice.

I’m very interested in keeping my endurance up, my stamina up, I keep my rest periods short and I try to do as much compound movement as i can. Not isolation, but a lot of compound exercises, stuff designed to work the whole the body, to get the full body workout.

What I do I try different things ahead of time, I don’t get stuck in one rut and I don’t do the same workout for more than a month at at time.

It’s cool to see wrestling fans that are also comic book creators sort of put their fandom on the page, and then take that fandom and put it on the screen.

I was very fortunate after I left TNA that Ring of Honor had a position here for me.

As the years progress, TNA knew they had something good with the X-Division, then they started building their tag and heavyweight division, and it became one of many good divisions as opposed to the ‘stand out’ division.

There’s a pressure to be the wrestler that you are, that character that you’ve created 24 hours a day 7 days a week. It’s tough for wrestlers sometimes to sort of have that separation between person and character.

I mean, I’m twenty years in the business, I still watch tapes. I still watch matches on Youtube. I’m trying to learn. I watch my old stuff to see what I used to do that worked, that didn’t work. You never stop learning.

What happens between the bells is what Ring of Honor has always been known for. If you’re looking for that action – the in-ring wrestling – that’s what Ring of Honor offers at a better rate than anyone else in the world.

I still, to this day, get people talking about Curry Man; for a character that hasn’t wrestled, technically, since 2008. So, it’s cool to think that that part of my career is still respected and enjoyed and it’s awesome.

When the WWE does well, professional wrestling does well. The WWE is what most people know as professional wrestling.

I’ve been a comic book fan since I was 10 years old.

I feel like with the level of talent that we’ve got in AEW – there are some fans of mine that would love to see me on ‘Dynamite’, but the honest truth is, the time to feature me as an act, I feel, is sort of, not long gone, but it’s sort of passed, and I’m okay with that.

To peel the curtain back, I don’t know if I could do Curry Man the same way I did it in TNA and not be racially insensitive.

When you’re that comfortable with your own product, with your own work rate – so to speak – that’s when you become valuable. That’s when people start vying for you, to ply your trade in their wrestling match.

Ring of Honor has always been about the best wrestling in the world, and by adding the New Japan talent into the game, it’s really upped everyone’s game.

I think the best wrestlers in the world are the ones who grow up watching it and have a love for it before they learn it’s a business. You can tell the difference between the guys who grow up watching wrestling versus the guys who get into it as an opportunity to make a living.

I don’t spend hours upon hours in the gym, I go in for about an hour at at time and that’s how you get the best results.

New Japan, who is on a tear, they’re gaining a lot of great United States exposure being on Ring of Honor’s television and pay-per-views. I feel like both companies are thriving and surviving and excelling.

I thought when Samoa Joe won the World Title was a special night. That was an instance where TNA sort of got out of it’s own way and let the competitors speak for themselves.

The thing about the Young Bucks is that they’ve sort of turned their own success into this movement. They don’t really follow a format or play by a set of rules, they just go out there and feel everything, so it’s hard to gauge a game plan for them.

I grew up in Fayetteville, North Carolina where Fort Bragg is, basically where the Mid Atlantic territories were sort of based out of the Carolinas. So I grew up watching guys like Ric Flair, Dusty Rhodes and the Road Warriors.

When we started with Ring of Honor, when we started with TNA, there was a very similar mindset that we were building something, that we were doing something good.

As far as the level of success, any step that TNA took, it always felt like it was a small step, but it was a small step forward. I always felt like the smart thing that TNA did was that they never let their reach exceed their grasp, so to speak. They never tried to take on too much at one time.

But whether or not I deserved being called ‘King of the Indies,’ I’ve wrestled in many promotions across the US because promoters put a lot of credence in that title.

So much of our business is ‘What have you done lately?’ There is no resting on the laurels.

I’ve teamed with AJ Styles, with Matt Sydal, with Donovan Morgan, with Elix Skipper.

It’s easy to dismiss Cheeseburger. You look at him as a guy who is 5’8, 125 pounds, very inexperienced. I know not to judge a book by it’s cover, and if a kid with those dimensions is willing to get in the ring with me and Kazarian, you know his heart is the size of Cleveland.

Every day I wake up, and I think about the wear and tear on my body, and will I be able to continue to perform at a high level. Sometimes I’m working with guys that are 15 years younger than me, 20 years younger than me.

The best thing TNA has been doing, every step we take has been a step forward.

I’ve been extremely lucky in terms on injury. Very few injuries over the course of, this is the beginning of my 16th year. I know a lot of guys that have had a lot shorter careers and a lot more injuries, so I knock on wood every day.

So it didn’t matter to me whether it was the serious guy or the comedy guy, if I was getting people involved and invested in watching wrestling then it’s a win-win situation for both of us.

Not every pitch I swing at is going over the fence, but you’re going to miss every shot you don’t take.

I didn’t put a date on what’s left in my career. I didn’t say by the time I’m 46, or 47, or 48, or by the time I’ve been in wrestling for 25 years or 26. I just said I was going to keep doing it as long as I could, and as long as I was still having fun.

There are times when you’ll be up in the spotlight at the very top of the show, and you get put back down in the mix because the company is trying to keep everybody fresh and interested, and one guy can’t be stuck at the top of the card forever.

It warms my heart to know that people respect my opinion enough to want my input, to want my opinion on their their work and I try to give the benefit of my experience.

I’ve got ties in Chicago. I was trained there. I’ve got a lot of family and friends.

The match with Taka Michinoku for the Light Heavyweight title was in fact my first match with the WWE, but I didn’t know about it until I got to the building.

I sometimes wonder, the tendency for anybody, especially when you’re with friends and you’re in the trenches, is to laugh at the stuff that you interpret as ridiculous or silly, and to grouch about the things that you interpret as not being good. That to me isn’t morale, that’s just like getting through the day.

I feel like the X Division, when it first started out, it was the thing that made TNA different than everything else that was on the scene. It was also the thing that brought a lot of the buzz around TNA in the very beginning.

I’ve felt that A.J. Styles has always proven that he’s a great in-ring competitor and on the television show.

I’m always happy when I get a chance to go over to Japan just because I feel like, if I can have good matches with the Japanese and show them that at this point in my career I’m still willing to go out there and put it on the line, I feel like it’s a positive step in my career.

Well, I think at this point, having won the championships that I aimed to win in my career, now the opportunities to wrestle different wrestlers is sort of the carrot that is dangling.

The difference between wrestling in singles and in tags, there’s just a different art to it. There’s a mentality.

And so it’s sort of a fine line where you want to be recognizable as professional wrestling but you also want to set yourself apart from what some people consider the standard of professional wrestling, which is the WWE.

TNA had a video game that I was in. I actually did mo-cap for that game as well.

It’s all performance and my acting background made me very comfortable in front of people, in front of cameras. It helped me think on my feet in front of a crowd.

Anyone who is not trying to be the world champion is wasting their time.

I think any company that gives Samoa Joe an opportunity is going to benefit and be happy. I think Joe is a great performer.

Christopher Daniels does not do Facebook. I have a Facebook page but I very rarely use it, because I don’t go on the computer a lot at home.

I’ve gone into cage matches, I’ve gone into Ultimate X, and I’ve said this before: I know exactly what I’ve signed up for, and I’m not afraid of anything in front of me, and I’m willing to do anything and whatever it takes to come out with my hand raised.

I’ve being doing some stuff overseas. I got the opportunity to go to New Japan a couple of times.